Blame it on Socialists! Seattle Cop Speaks Out.

How sad it is that when I look at the drawing above, I think of Seattle police officers attacking innocent citizens. Unfortunately, that kind of attack has been happening too often lately.



Oh, yes, it happens everywhere and there are good cops and bad cops, like good cashiers and bad ones, but we don't put our lives in the hands of cashiers, we don't ask them to protect us. The police are badged to do what we would if we could: stop law breakers, protect people and property, and save lives.



We give them guns, tasers, clubs to do this, and fast cars. Like preparing a cow or turkey for our dinner table, we leave any bloodshed outside of our cushy lives. There are also those among us who are too mentally unstable to carry weapons around, and too prejudiced. In my cool, intelligent, love-one-another, city of Seattle, the line between has been blurred.



Police knock down and stomp on a Mexican male, yelling racial slurs at him, 5-1. Turns out it got on tape, the man was completely innocent, and the good people of Seattle were very upset. The police dept. did their own investigation and found no wrong.



Now a Native American wood-carving walking down the sidewalk is shot four times in the back, because he was carrying a knife and a police officer tells him to drop it, waits 4 or 5 seconds, then guns him down when the knife is not dropped. (The officer says he felt threatened. The knife was found not even open, on the ground.)



My TV is always on to a news channel, muted, but I don't want to miss anything, and on the day it happened the news broke from a helicopter. I saw the scene, MANY police cars, downtown Seattle, tall buildings all around, yellow tape closing off a LARGE area. Then I hear one man is dead, no one else involved. OK, so why such a shut down of the area? I spoke out loud to my partner, "Some cop just did something wrong. See, how they are closing off any possible witnesses?"



Too late though, as building office workers were walking about and looking out their windows. That trigger-happy cop was busted big time. Within a minute of my un-muting, a passerby said the man was just walking by and the cop shot him in the back. Another passerby, caught on the cops dashboard camera, screams out, "Why did you do that? He wasn't doing anything!?"



The Native American was well known in Seattle for the hand-carved totem poles he sold at a tourist attraction here. He drank too much, spent most nights in a mission, but he was loved by his family, who were furious over the murder. (Is it not murder? Manslaughter? Death by cop? What?) The Seattle police dept. again held an investigation and found that the officer did nothing wrong. By now, Seattle citizens had had enough. The first innocent man was encouraged to charge a civil suit against the SPD and the Native Americans are waiting the results of an inquest.



Today in the police union paper, an officer writes an article where he criticises Seattle's race and social justice initiative, which includes that officers take classes on social profiling.

"Social justice is a Socialist scheme that judges people, not as individuals but by their race, ethnicity and socio-economic status." He continues his thought, "...a liberal after my money in taxes may be my opponent, but a Socialist attacking the Constitution and my liberty is my enemy."

Wow, talk about some anger issues. Did this officer pass the psychological screening test? "...my liberty...?" HIS liberty is attacked by supporting social justice? Can't you just see this guy heading up McCarthyism? His logic fits right in. It certainly fits in somewhere, but not in MY city! Not in Seattle.

See the one figure above who is raising a hand to stop the assault? That is what I expect from other officers. I know they consider themselves one big family, but especially in families we must step up to out own when they are hurting others. That is so troublesome---that good cops are afraid to speak out and say, "ENOUGH."