Posted on 05/26/2021 12:55:58 PM PDT by lowbridge
Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, who resigned last summer after the Seattle City Council voted to cut millions of dollars from the Seattle Police Department’s budget, recently acknowledged what most outside the mainstream media bubble already knew: That the media manipulated news coverage inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) to make it look less dangerous.
Best made the comments on Jerry Ratcliffe’s “Reducing Crime” podcast, explaining that the “destructive behavior” of the protesters “did not get the level of publicity or media attention” as the officer-involved deaths of George Floyd and others received.
“I would read stories about the peaceful protests. I go, ‘Well, part of it was peaceful.’ But I was standing 20 feet away from a hail of rocks. I was looking right at them hail down, feet from me. I was behind a telephone pole,” Best said.
Ratcliffe responded by saying: “And then you read the media and find that they’re pretty much gaslighting you. It never happened.”
Best said she was confused when reading about the interactions with rioters in the media, who claimed it was a “peaceful protest” and that protesters were unfairly and harshly targeted by police who threw tear gas and used pepper spray on them. Best said that they did use those tactics, but that their use “wasn’t arbitrary.”
“But certainly, we were trying to look as non-threatening as possible, maybe not have the riot shields up. But once we know we’re going to be getting rocks and bottles thrown at us, I have a responsibility as a chief to make sure people have protecting gear. We can’t just leave them out there with soft hat and rocks are being thrown and whatever,” she said.
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Leftist media covered for leftist rioters and insurrectionists?
Nah. Can’t be!
Ya think?
A black woman who was not allowed to succeed at her job.
There is now a lawsuit by the merchants near the CHOP zone suing the City of Seattle for lost income.
There is a lawsuit by the father of a black teen was murdered in the CHOP zone. CHOP was finally closed after CHOP murdered a second black teenager.
Black merchant incomes don’t matter. Black teens’ lives don’t matter, it is all about the corrupt media and how they want to portray things.
There is but one credible journalist in Seattle. Brandi Kruse. Her “conversion” interestingly was a result of her experience in CHOP.
The “enemy-dia”
The media LOVES these insurgents.
I think I remember when “reporter” did not mean “propagandist.” But that was a long time ago.
As I recall, there were very few mainstream reporters reporting from the chop/chaz. I got my info from streaming reporters, one of which was CCWing.
Brave on scene streaming reporters, cowardly mainstream media in absentia.
The media deliberately lied to protect the democrat administration that had helped organize the occupation and that gave it permission to continue, along with moral and material support, meaning it was a crime.
they put out what YOU told them to...
you should have clarified what was happening if you thought it was sooo bad, but you dint
Take miccould brown on one hand and Georgia Zimmerman on the other rub in common sense and you get smacked with the realization of what’s going on.
Jason Rantz in Seattle.
Andy Ngo in Portland, when he isn’t being hunted to death by Antifa.
Andy Ngo LIVED under cover in Seattle’s Chop/Chaz for a week while they hunted to kill him in Portland.
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