Seattle Police Chief to Residents, Business Owners: You’re on Your Own

[The_Waco_Kid]

no one saw this coming, right ?????



Seattle Police Chief to Residents, Business Owners: You’re on Your Own

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020...e-on-your-own/





Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best advised her city’s business owners and residents that local police will not “risk their personal safety to protect property” after a ban issued by the city council of “less lethal tools” — such as pepper spray — for the purposes dispersing crowds to control rioters.
Best (pictured) issued her warning in a letter on Friday:

Dear Business Owner and/or Resident:

Please know that the Seattle Police Department is committed to addressing life safety incidents and calls for service, and responding to ongoing demonstrations and unrest in the city.

Please also know that the City Council Ordinance 119805 Crowd Control Tool goes into effect this weekend on July 26, 020. This ordinance bans Seattle Police officers [from using] less lethal tools, including pepper spray that is commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent. Simply put, the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd.

It is important to bring to your attention that yesterday, I sent the City Council a letter ensuring them that as the Chief of Police, I have done my due diligence of informing them them numerous times of the foreseeable impact of this ordinance on upcoming events. The letter is attached for your reference.

For these reasons, Seattle Police will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend – as I will never ask our officers to risk their personal safety to protect property without the tools to do so in a safe way.

Sincerely,

Carmen Best

Chief of Police

The Washington Examiner‘s Byron York shared Best’s letter via Twitter:

Seattle police send message to businesses, residents. There are riots. City council banned use of pepper spray, other crowd control agents. So now, we have 'NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd.' Shorter: You're on your own. pic.twitter.com/ZLzg1VToeV
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 27, 2020

Seattle police “cannot manage demonstrations as we have in the past” given the city council’s banning of “less-lethal tools,” Best wrote on Thursday in a letter to the city’s councilmembers.


Seattle should expect more “property destruction, arson, looting, and attempts to injure additional officers,” predicted Best. In her letter to Seattle’s councilmembers, she added:

Some have asked why officers are not arresting those engaging in criminal behavior, as officers do every day, and as they have in recent protests. If it is safe to do so, and even when it places their lives in danger, our officers always directly address criminal behavior. They do this, however, when they know they have the tools shown to allow the safe use of their policing powers. This Council ordinance denies them access to these tools that have been an essential part of their court-approved tactics.


We have clear, court-mandated procedures for arresting individuals, grounded in the principles of deescalation. SPD’s de-escalation principles are premised on the expectation, consistent with policy and best practices, that officers have the full array of approved tools. In large crowds, there is no safe way for officers to effect arrests when their colleagues do not have the tools necessary to protect them.


As City Council’s legislation goes into effect, it will create even more dangerous circumstances for our officers to intervene using what they have left – riot shields and riot batons.


For these reasons, SPD will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend. The Council legislation gives officers no ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd. Allowing this behavior deeply troubles me, but I am duty-bound to follow the Council legislation once it is in effect. If the Council is prepared to suggest a different response or interpretation of the legislation, I stand ready to receive it.

The Seattle Police Department has closed its counter services and precinct facilities indefinitely, ostensibly to “mitigate the impact of COVID-19.”


Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, a Democrat, described President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal agents to the Emerald City as an “escalation” of violence.

[nevergaveitathought]

I thought a judge overruled the city's edict?

[oeb11]

This is a good thing.

Seattle andits Radical City leaders should absolutely do without the SPD - including protection for the Mayor and City Council members who voted in the SPD restrictions.

They have enabled the rioters and looters - as a way of destabilizing america in an attempt to discredit Trump and bring a Radical Socialist to POTUS.



I hope their effort comes too early - as people will see the destruction when Rule of law is prohibited by marxist Radical leaders.

It may be that the Seattle Example of what happens when Democrats Rule - will wake up this country.



I hope the Seattle City leadership stands fast - and enables the entire city to be butned to the ground by their pet terrorists.

a painful lesson - but a needed one for what a DPST victory in Nov 2020 has in store for America.

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

I thought a judge overruled the city's edict?

some judge should but this is libtardville .. so who knows up there?


the stupidity of handcuffing your police force should be obvious.

[Unique_Carpenter]

So it also appears that the police chief have given businesses and himeownere carte blanche to protect themselves and their property with legally owned firearms

[oeb11]

Until the Mayor and City Council set themselves up as Judge, jury, and executioner of any who dare fire in self-defense upon their pet terrorists.

I do hope the radical marxists in charge of Seattle ban all firearms - and charge/prosecute those who protect themselves.
It is an object lesson for what the DPST's have in store for America.



Perhaps SR will wake up and smell teh coffee someday.

he is in serious denial.

[rexdutchman]

Beginning of fed takeover under fema ,,,,,,

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

I thought a judge overruled the city's edict?

it was a federal judge, not city judge.

[bambino]

I think the residents of Seattle figured this out a month ago. They didn’t need a letter to confirm it.

[Unique_Carpenter]

Originally Posted by bambino

I think the residents of Seattle figured this out a month ago. They didn’t need a letter to confirm it.

True, but now the chief has green lighted it. So what if the city council creates new laws. Can't override federal or state constitutions. The Washington DC handgun case comes to mind.
I'd bet the chief would not enforce any new bs either.

[Levianon17]

Seattle will be a Ghost Town soon. Those that can leave will. Those that can't or won't will die from violence.

[nevergaveitathought]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

it was a federal judge, not city judge.

I know who said anything about a city judge? like you thought some traffic court judge?

[nevergaveitathought]

a government of the people, by the people and for the people - wait that's old white man crap

never mind the armed militia of the chop in seattle and atlanta wasn't voted in

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

I know who said anything about a city judge? like you thought some traffic court judge?

when one says judge, one must assume state judge or city judge. it wasn't specified who it was.

[oeb11]

Originally Posted by Unique_Carpenter

So it also appears that the police chief have given businesses and himeownere carte blanche to protect themselves and their property with legally owned firearms

the Marxist Seattle mayor and City Council mean to remove guns from all white folks - and place in the hands of OBLM.

Standard marxist revolutionary doctrine from Lenin, mao, Chavez, Castro, and all Marxist dictators.


Coupled with disbanding the police force.



Civil War is coming.