Posted on 09/22/2020 10:57:25 PM PDT by knighthawk
Seattle’s City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday evening to override Mayor Jenny Durkan's veto of a bill that would cut police funding by around $3 million.
"We cannot look away from this and we can no longer accept the status quo if we truly believe that Black lives matter," Council President Lorena Gonzalez said, according to MyNorthwest.com.
The bill would also remove as many as 100 officers from various police units and limit staff pay to $150,000, The Seattle Times reported.
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Who cares about any consequences as long as it makes me feel good. watch as these idiots who voted to defend end up calling the Police for soem reason.
“Black Gangs Matter”.
Outside of prison too.
You know you stupid white twits... black people like police protection too. It’s not just for rich white communists like yourselves.
Rational people GTFO.
They want Police in their affluent areas but no Police in the areas where they think people don’t want it, i.e. mostly black areas.
cut of federal funding of the city
we’re not bailing their asses out
Yep, liberals worry about being on the “right side of history” and not about doing the right thing now.
When communists run the city council, this is what you get. Burn, Seattle, Burn! You’ve earned it.
Interesting. The most radical legislator in California is. Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego. Must be something about the name.
Fortunately at least there is plan
Signal Seattle residents should figure from it: FLEE!!
Signal for Democrats: FLUSH go Democratic votes in Seattle.
Someone needs to make a certain member of the Seattle City Counsil vanish . Into thin air
I have a liberal cousin in the Seattle area. We are on good, casual terms and avoid heated political debates. But I can’t find much sympathy for her predicament when she probably voted FOR all this crap.
Let them descend into 3rd world squalor and savagery.
Seattle can kiss it’s business community goodbye.I wonder where they will all go?
NO one -—from CEO to janitor-—will work where they are not safe.
You can bet that Organized criminal groups are already on the phone to realtors there.
Love the intentionally unimformative headlines.
No surprise here...this is where I live.
Absolutely cool...the bigger the cuts, the better.
There’s an upcoming lesson to be learned...the sooner the better
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