Here are his remarks about this to council. He says everything he shared at 11:00pm was ready to go at 7:30. He said he told Surratt they were about to go brief the media and that’s when Surratt told him to hold off. He says he thought the mayor... would be there in 20 minutes, not 3 hours.show more

Assistant Chief Davis talked to me for a minute after the meeting. His new information reframes the prior text messages/ emails selectively released by the Mayor’s office. Mayor’s staff put the blame on SPD (called it “f—-ing embarrassing) that they weren’t putting info out. Now, according to Davis, it was, in fact, Deputy Mayor Surratt who effectively cancelled public updates until the Mayor got there. (3 hours later) I’ve asked staff from @MayorofSeattle to respond to this new information.

Complete incompetence

Time for a change. Change Washington has created a petition calling for exactly that. Supporters of that position can review the petition, add their names, and find information about the campaign here.

And the game of political "musical chairs" is well underway in Seattle. Nobody wants to not have a chair when the music stops. Nothing will come of it of course, so just sit back, regret your vote, and be amused.

Recorded lynchings in the South (Tuskegee 1882-1968): ~3,500 total, ~3,000 Black victims. EJI counts ~4,000 racial terror lynchings of Blacks in 12 Southern states 1877-1950. Black-on-Black homicides since 1865: Modern FBI/CDC data (post-1970) show ~90% of Black victims killed by Black offenders, averaging 7,000-10,000 yearly. Totals exceed 400,000 since 1970 alone; full post-slavery estimates reach 500,000+. Intraracial pattern holds across groups due to proximity.