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After shooting, Seattle parents regret school kicking out officers in 2020: 'Who is protecting our babies?'
Fox News via Yahoo ^ | June 12, 2024 | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 06/13/2024 12:16:22 PM PDT by grundle

After a recent shooting killed a 17-year-old student, Seattle’s Garfield High School may begin rethinking its decision to remove police officers back in 2020.

On June 6, a 17-year-old student was shot and killed in the school parking lot after trying to break up a fight between two boys. Police reported that the suspect fled on foot and still remains on the run.

Meanwhile, former Garfield police officer Bennie Radford, who now lives in Florida, can’t help but wonder if he would have made a difference.

"My stomach is wrenching right now," Radford told The Seattle Times. "I never should have left. Those are my kids — that was my school."

Radford worked at Garfield from 2008 to 2019, where he was known as "Officer Bennie" to the kids. The Seattle School Board later voted in 2020 to remove Radford’s position, with police arrangements being "indefinitely shelved" for Garfield and four other schools in Seattle.

The move was in response to the death of George Floyd in May 2020 and national calls to "defund" the police. The Seattle School Board declared in a resolution the district would be "abandoning notions of policing and pathology" and showing how it "supports defunding police."

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KEYWORDS: banglist; education; seattle; security
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1 posted on 06/13/2024 12:16:22 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

You mean your “blobs of tissue,” don’t you?


2 posted on 06/13/2024 12:17:05 PM PDT by xoxox
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“I never should have left. Those are my kids — that was my school.”

This was not the officer’s fault. His job was stripped away by ignorant local government leaders - mostly silly women.

The death can be laid directly at their feet.


3 posted on 06/13/2024 12:22:30 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: grundle

Bring in some social workers.


4 posted on 06/13/2024 12:22:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: grundle

All of us know the national teachers’ union members hate those icky, nasty gun things and wouldn’t want to touch one of them.

As the old saying goes, people complain about cops and criticize them until their lives are in danger and they frantically beg for them to help.


5 posted on 06/13/2024 12:22:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: grundle

Consequences. Idiot libs think they don’t exist.


6 posted on 06/13/2024 12:24:06 PM PDT by xp38
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To: grundle

While I doubt little will change in the leftist hellholes, they need to keep posting articles like this to show how much people hate what’s been going on for over four years.


7 posted on 06/13/2024 12:25:50 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: grundle

A group of fanatics who make a sacrament out of murdering babies in the womb cannot truly care about children who have been born.


8 posted on 06/13/2024 12:26:01 PM PDT by BidenRegimeDissident
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To: grundle

Let me guess?


9 posted on 06/13/2024 12:28:59 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: grundle

Liberalism kills, always and eventually


10 posted on 06/13/2024 12:29:04 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: grundle

“But we got to realize that we got to get these kids, not to have access to these guns fundamentally.”

Good luck with that. Certainly better parenting would help but the state can’t force parents to be better parents nor erase all evil.

That’s like saying we have to eliminate all automobiles because some people get killed in them. Oh ... wait a minute.


11 posted on 06/13/2024 12:29:40 PM PDT by plain talk
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When these crimes hit home, these pathetic politicians rethink their absurd plans.


12 posted on 06/13/2024 12:32:27 PM PDT by Lucky2 (I'M MAD AS HELL AND CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! # FJB )
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To: grundle

It takes only one shooting or mugging to turn libs into born again Conservatives who, regrettably, begin to slide backwards because they have very short memories.


13 posted on 06/13/2024 12:33:39 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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After shooting, Seattle parents regret school kicking out officers in 2020: ‘Who is protecting our babies?’

You took over that personal responsibility the instant you removed the police from protecting your babies.

You failed.


14 posted on 06/13/2024 12:37:16 PM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: grundle

Idiots.

CC


15 posted on 06/13/2024 12:37:44 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: grundle

Whenever liberals run the show, people die. And when there’s a liberal in the white house, our enemies are emboldened because they know liberals are both stupid and cowardly.


16 posted on 06/13/2024 12:43:28 PM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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Dem lil chilluns dindu nuffins.

17 posted on 06/13/2024 12:44:27 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: grundle

If your child’s public school needs and armed police guard to prevent murders, its probably a sign to home-school or find another schooling option.


18 posted on 06/13/2024 12:50:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: xp38

Which only shows how naive and ignorant the left truly is.


19 posted on 06/13/2024 12:53:13 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: grundle

Leftists logic: Ready, Fire!!!, Aim.


20 posted on 06/13/2024 1:08:14 PM PDT by gitmo
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