We've identified the officers who shot and killed Christian Nelson in Othello earlier this month: Ernest Cleaves and Matthew Chang.

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The only “staffing crisis” politicians seem to care about is at the police department. Homelessness services are critically understaffed. Workers deal with many of the same populations and issues for half the money.

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Is part of Katie’s transition, literally becoming Mayor Bruce?

it's bad when cops are evil but it's funny (sometimes) when they're really fuckin stupid about it

It was a visual joke that failed—even among people who identified the reference Others thought the picture of Charlie was actually Sgt Jamin Dobson

Seattle police Sergeant Jamin Dobson had a beef with another officer, so Dobson decided to bug his office — with his own bodycam. That's against the law in WA. www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-se...

Mayor-elect Wilson is trying to be the mayor for everyone, but she’ll wind up as the mayor for no one. No one likes Cauce. The right thinks she’s too “woke.” The left hates her for crushing student protests.

One of the great rewards of being a local social media institution is interacting with our fans.

Somebody got charged with a felony over this

Heart swelling, eyes welling. There is hope

Officer Nicholas Burgess holds up a “weapon” at Cal Anderson on May 24, and it’s just a packet with a picture of a cartoon dog farting.

🚨 ALERT🚨 ICE operating in South Seattle. Abductions yesterday, agents spotted today in Othello. Be on the lookout:

THROWBACK THURSDAY In 1960s, Black Panthers first popularized calling cops “pigs.” The Seattle police leaned into and got a pig mascot

Did you know that the FBIs rules allow them to recruit children to be informants? Me neither.

THROWBACK THURSDAY In 1960s, Black Panthers first popularized calling cops “pigs.” The Seattle police leaned into and got a pig mascot

Per Chief Barnes, he didn’t point. He merely “advanced” on officers. “Advanced” is a nice non-descriptive descriptor. Perfect cop language. It could mean “took one step in their direction”

Graffiti at the spot in Othello where Seattle police killed someone yesterday

Photos from today’s fatal police shooting in Othello. SPD claims a man pointed a gun at them. There are about a half-dozen evidence markers indicating where shell casings were found.

SPD just shot someone in Othello. We’ve got someone en route.

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Sample of some of the signs at a SPOG Rally in the early 1970s: "Protect us from Bombers" "Our Seattle Police Officers are the Greatest" "Pig is Beautiful"

This short-documentary was the reason I wanted LAPD’s headshots. It started with just the people involved with this story but when I was typing the request, I just said, “fuck it, all of them”

Reformists like to say Seattle has a “three legged stool” of so-called accountability systems. If it’s a piece of furniture, then it’s built for somebody to sit on top of it. Each leg props something up. Impunity culture continues.

The Office of Police Accountability found that SPD's violent overreaction to a May protest in Cal Anderson was neither violent nor an overreaction. Case closed! www.divestspd.com/p/no-justice...

alright, folks. Nobody fav this post.

What will become of Mayor Bruce’s dashboards?

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Protect and Swerve

Hah 🤣

Everyone is overstating the leftward swing in Seattle's election. It's a needed course correction, not a counter-counterrevolution. Wilson is an improvement over Harrell or Durkan, but the city council will still be considerably more moderate than it was in 2020.

In August, two cop cars crashed in Beacon Hill. We got the video. It's glorious.

Hell yeah, shout out to women

Totally agree that women shouldn’t be cops. Neither should men. Only grubby little husks of men.

I am quite confident that to the sadistic sadists who are our current senior federal officials, this is a hoped-for feature, the exact opposite of a bug. ADX is inhuman and inhumane. As the article notes, even former wardens call it “worse than death.”

In 2021, the Seattle Police Department signed the 30x30 pledge, aiming to increase the recruitment of women to 30% by 2030. Despite a targeted campaign, SPD's recruitment of women this year didn't top 10%. www.divestspd.com/p/women-dont...

Advocates for trans people with criminal records say Illinois law creates barriers to living authentically for trans people and that Black and brown trans women, who have historically been overcriminalized, still bear the brunt of this disparity.

#OnThisDay in 1900, Seattle waitresses unionized. www.historylink.org/File/1066

fuuuuuck these people.

We Heart Seattle is a rightwing ideological project. They’re not doing this to help “clean up the community” any more than MAGA doofus Scott Presler is. It’s pure theater with a sinister propaganda motive.

It's kinda wild how many former minor league baseball players have become Seattle cops. This guy was undrafted, then he worked at Lids, then he became a mailman, then he became a Blue Jays prospect. Now, he's a cop. What a long, strange trip.

Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain. The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.

The Office of Police Accountability is investigating fewer and fewer complaints under Director Bonnie Glenn. In 2022, OPA conducted a full investigation into 37% of complaints. In 2025, the OPA only fully investigated 23%. This is bad.

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Hmmm….

This is The Discovery Institute’s plan in action. DI’s Robert Marbut was Trump’s homelessness Czar and this is his vision verbatim.

“Didier and Lt. Larry Longley, who leads the Police Outreach Engagement Team, justified the response by saying that officers were forced to watch crimes happen in the 2020 protests, and it was bad for morale.” cry me a fucking river