A humanitarian and environmental disaster is unfolding at this encampment in south Seattle. The camp has grown across multiple properties and trees are now being cleared to expand it further. I'll have new reporting today on the city's plans to "monitor" and "watch" the site.

A hundred feet away a homeowner is waiting on a permit to remodel a bathroom. The city wants more clarification. 😂

My last story here was in April when neighbors called me to try and prod the city into action.

I've played enough open world video games to know a bandit camp when I see one

Don't worry, I'm sure Katie will have it under control.. Well, after her mommy drops her off

The video looks like a third world country. We have zero leadership in Washington State!

plastic straws are bad for the environment

Reminds me of Wallace Marine Park in Salem which has been destroyed be encampments. It’s right on the river too so the filth just seeps into the water.

@RepJayapal This is what no rules looks like and why we need sanctioned parking lots and shelters with accountability. Have you been to Seattle to see for your own eyes how chaotic it is?

And @GovBobFerguson claims to care about the environment What are liar.

Just a reminder that every single item you see in that camp was stolen from tax payers - either directly through theft/burglary - or indirectly through "social services" We pay for this. And when it becomes a completely uninhabitable toxic waste dump - we pay to clean it up.

Leftism has morphed into third worldism and the second order effects of their noxious policies will turn public spaces like this into these islands of New Dehli.

They're in great hands. Like, byeee trees

Dem communism 101.

@SeattleCouncil @GovBobFerguson help us understand why it would it be ‘monitored’ and ‘watched’? Wouldn’t it be prudent to just go clean up the biohazard, detain and determine lawful charges, if N/A, offer mental health and or rehab based on need?! The site is clearly unsafe for human inhabitants and now a known risk to all (thank you Jeremy). Enough is enough. Basic santitation and safety takes priority. And we don’t need an NGO. Have our city, state, county paid employees do it. Or maybe @weheartseattle would be willing to lend your biting hand some guidance. This is unacceptable.

When is someone going to sue the city of Seattle for allowing this environmental disaster to happen? @EPA

If you live in a house with property taxes, the city will come by and fine you for the trash and tree removal. But if you just crash out on land you don't own, trash the place, and cut down trees, the city will simply "monitor" and "watch".

Wait 'til everyone finds out we can clear cut any trees without any permits!!!

@TheDemocrats want this for your town too, America.

Imagine all the laws being broken.. clown govt turns a blind eye

How Katie got elected is pure mystery. She won't be able to solve this. She doesn't have the stomach to do what needs to be done.

Good luck on expanding those tiny home villages, Katie.

When individuals own property, they do everything in their power to preserve it. Their ownership is the incentive. When people own nothing, there is no incentive. This is the outcome.

Seattleites know who to blame for this??? Themselves, for electing the woketarts that dont do anything .

coming soon to a city near you

Newsom wasted HUGE $24 BILLION on homeless-it Increased 52%! Newsom’s & LA’s HORRIBLE POLICY in California Liberals want for our nation Supporting having these people sleep on our cold streets Get diseases & Defecate in front of homes & businesses is WRONG!

It seems to me the only way to effectively fix this would be to do things that most people will shriek and cry concentration camp over Of course it turns out the most infamous concentration camp not only had an orchestra but a swimming pool as well as a birthing center, so there’s that But I often think about this living in Portland as these people have simply gone feral and offered nothing to our society I imagine if we were to simply move them far outside of the urban centers and put them in some sort of reservations, where they had the choice to stay and enjoy your lifestyle of drugs and feral living or enter treatment programs and be re-integrated into society Well, I think that would be a win-win for everyone as I think they would enjoy that and I know we would To me, it seems like the most humanitarian way to address this Personally, as someone who recovered from addiction, I think it would be better to go back to the old ways When you arrest someone in the process of destroying themselves, you offered them an opportunity to break the cycle and sober up and think clearly Without that integral component, this will never work I don’t believe in criminalizing these things or punishing people beyond the scope of what is necessary to keep them from hurting themselves or other others, and ultimately help them integrate into functional society But it genuinely horrifies me seeing what is being done as they are literally profiteering off of the slow destruction of thousands upon thousands of people who may have had good lives Things like fentanyl are really more a form of biological chemical terrorism designed to erase humanity and reduce us to a little more than zombies When I was young, we would say I’ll try anything once but nowadays, you really can’t and a lot of times people end up taking things without meaning to assume many things are now laced with these forever drugs Most people try these things once and are lost forever That part horrifies me as an uncle of kids who are so special and sweet and I know all it would take is one bad decision to truly ruin their live lives As the crazy fun, uncle, I’ve done my best to get through to them and make these things clear I wish someone would’ve done that for me But back when I was a kid though things were moving in this direction All things are far more dangerous now

Did you see Olympia is trying to clear their jungle? Your reporting is certainly a big reason why.

You only have to live like this in a blue bubble. If you stop voting for Democrats things will get better.

The orcs of Mordor are expanding outward. Who will stand up to them? Who will stop them? Surely not the mayor Wormtounge of Seattle.

Bob is busy pitching his new ENERGY project right now to millionaires... he wants to keep us all broke.

Apparently environmental concerns do not extend bio hazards and clearing trees for this use case.

A small nuke should do it.

Monitor? LMAO. Close it down!

People are losing it over a measles outbreak and have no idea what these encampments will unleash

Democrats are all about third world shitholes.