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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You mean your “blobs of tissue,” don’t you?
“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.
Bring in some social workers.
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.
Consequences. Idiot libs think they don’t exist.
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.
A group of fanatics who make a sacrament out of murdering babies in the womb cannot truly care about children who have been born.
Let me guess?
Liberalism kills, always and eventually
“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.
When these crimes hit home, these pathetic politicians rethink their absurd plans.
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.
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.
Idiots.
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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.
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.
Which only shows how naive and ignorant the left truly is.
Leftists logic: Ready, Fire!!!, Aim.
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