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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I’m against this.
Well you Leftist Seattlites, it is your Leftist ideology protecting your babies. How’s that working out for you.
This is the result of voters with too much money and who do too many drugs. Just my theory.
It’s obvious Seattle parents want their kids easily killed, while in school.
‘Who is protecting our babies?’
Counselors and social workers!
That’s what you voted for!
Remember?
Bet you do now...
Sorry Seattle, but if you haven’t learned the lesson that you get what you vote for, there is no hope for you . . .
But But But 2020 was the start of summers of love wasn’t it?
This must be a lie. Isn’t the school property a “gun free zone”? Did the perp have a carry-permit? It is unfortunate the kid is dead. I wonder if his parents are LIB nitwits? It is dangerous to be the child of a LIB nitwit. If they don’t murder you in an abortion. other bad things likely await you.
Who could possibly have foreseen anything like this?
They never considered thinking in the first place. Another triumph of premeditated ignorance.
“Which only shows how naive and ignorant the left truly is.”
They are neither ignorant nor naive. They are getting what they want.
In Los Angeles they're called safety ambassadors and they're equally as useless.
Stupid prize awarded with honors.
Chickens come home to roost.
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