Posted on 07/22/2020 8:48:06 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Seattle City Council President M. Lorena González issued a statement Tuesday in response to “targeted protests at the homes of council members.”
Some people have protested outside the homes of council members Alex Pedersen and Debora Juarez recently. Pedersen and Juarez have said they support making cuts to the Police Department’s budget but have not, unlike their colleagues, committed to a goal of defunding the department by 50%.
Protesters have made noise at night outside Pedersen’s Ravenna home and written messages on his door (such as “Don’t be racist trash”) — in pen and on post-it notes, according to the PAC. They have left literature about defunding the police on Juarez’s Lake City doorstep and marched past, the PAC said.
Juarez didn’t immediately comment Tuesday. Pedersen sees “common ground … to dramatically reimagine policing” and respects protests but objected to “harassment and vandalism” at his home that included profanities written on his door and on windows, he said.
A large group of protesters visited Mayor Jenny Durkan’s house last month, and her property was tagged with spray paint; her address is protected under a state confidentiality program due to threats related to her time as a U.S. attorney. Durkan asked the council to investigate Councilmember Kshama Sawant, partly for taking part in that action. González declined.
“People have taken to ‘doxxing’ the personal phone numbers and home addresses of elected officials and community leaders, when they do not share your point of view,” González said in her statement Tuesday.
“Demonstrations are a protest tool but using that tool to create an environment by which people and their family members feel unsafe in their own homes is not something I can support,” she added, urging protesters and her colleagues to engage with each other in other ways.
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The council president should visit the local zoo—and lecture the lions and tigers from inside the cages.
I am sure they can work together to find common ground!
What did the poor lions and tigers ever do to you that you’d stick them in an enclosure with that human filth?
Stick the council president in the alligator pen.
Mostly peaceful.
How about that taste of your their medicine? They might want to take a look at the history of the French Revolution.
As grampa used to say “it all depends on whose ox is getting gored”.
Lions and Tigers have standards. They may be low but they still have standards.
All fun and games until it comes (too) close to home.
They want to lose 50% of the cops, close the jail permanently, and the court house.
leftist eating their own ...
““Demonstrations are a protest tool but using that tool to create an environment by which people and their family members feel unsafe in their own homes is not something I can support,” she added”
no doubt she was in 100% agreement when “protesters” just did this to Tucker Carlson’s family in THEIR home ...
We on the right have a lot to learn from the left on how to hold politicians feet to the fire and get them to do what you want.
Lions and tigers can actually be friendly, though. Why would you want to torment them with a politician?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f8Hpid8YWA
Muslims threaten violence and now nobody in media will bash or attack them. Instead the media targets Christians. The left/antifa attacks people and the media protects them. I guess Christians should start being violent?
Stupid liberals. They think they can get this radical/black looter’s matter/antifa trash to be satisfied with compromise.
I wouldn’t.
“I guess Christians should start being violent?
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I’m afraid they’ll have to. It’s called Self Defense.
I'm seeing this with some of the college professors, now. They used to go all "power to the people" and put pictures of "Chimpy McBushface" on their office doors. Now, they're scared to death that they'll say the wrong thing. These are their children. A purer breed.
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