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Mayor Katie Wilson's Office released a video statement on social media Thursday afternoon explaining the "real gaps" that have been uncovered in the city's communication strategies following the mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle on Sunday. "Good afternoon, Seattle, you deserve clarity about what's happened over these last... show more
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![🚨#BreakingNews: Wilson’s Web of “Unawareness”: Mayor Contradicts Herself on Why Public Was Left in the Dark After Shooting “Miscommunication” and “I am not aware” says Seattle mayor when pressed again of public information delays of shooting. Wilson provides contradicting remarks to what she knew Sunday night. During Friday’s (July 31st) presser Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson when asked if she is telling the truth on whether her office told SPD to delay Sunday evening’s presser to wait for “dignitaries,” Wilson shared that she “learned at 9.40 p.m., five minutes before 9.45 p.m. [presser], that a press conference was being planned at Seattle Center” and that if she “had known that next to no information” other than her “own office's blog post” earlier that evening “had been shared with the public since the time of the incident at 6 p.m., I would have immediately said, yes, tell the press everything you know.” Then minutes later when responding to a reporter’s question on how can she not know that information about the shooting was not being communicated to the public on Sunday night, Mayor Wilson responded, “The reason why we put out a statement on our website around 8.45 p.m. is because at that point we did realize that nothing was getting out there.” Mayor Wilson appears to have contradicted herself on what she knew when on Sunday night about the lack of public information being shared on the Bite of Seattle shooting. Earlier she said to one reporter that she found out at 9:40 p.m. that “next to no information” was shared to the public about the shooting yet minutes later she admitted that her office posted at 8:45 p.m. about the shooting because “at that point we did realize that nothing was getting out there” and that the “the public was desperate for information.” Therefore, by no later than 8:45 p.m., Mayor Wilson was aware that little to no information was being shared to the public and that she was the arbiter of that information. Mayor Wilson also mentioned that at 9:40 p.m., five minutes before the scheduled 9:45 p.m. presser that “I personally at 9:40 p.m. was not aware that basic information such as the status of Seattle Center campus and information about potential suspects at large had not gotten out in any form.” This coupled with the fact that she said that also at 9:40 p.m., she was unaware of the 9:45 p.m. scheduled presser, may reasonably indicate that she needed more time to be brought up to speed on the situation. Yet, Mayor Wilson continues to deny she delayed the dissemination of information to the public regarding the shooting on Sunday night. The delay in the Sunday presser for “dignitaries” was said by a SPD spokesperson and also captured on video. Later in Friday’s presser Mayor Wilson was asked that during Monday’s presser how could she not know that the 19-year-old who died at Seattle Center was actually part of the shooting when the King County Prosecutor's Office court documents stated the 19-y/o’s involvement which were released shortly after the presser, inferring that the prosecutor’s office knew hours earlier before Monday’s presser. Mayor Wilson again responded, “I was not aware of that information at that time.” Also, during the presser Mayor Wilson said that the public information “should have been shared earlier. It could have been shared in a number of forms. Social media, the SPD blotter, our emergency alert system, potentially an off-site press conference.” During Monday’s presser mayor was again “unaware” of the City’s emergency alert system. 🟥Below is Q&A from Friday’s presser surrounding the Sunday Presser delay and delay of public information: 👉Reporter: You have command staff who was there. Many of them are here tonight. Again, we're hearing that your office told them to hold off immediate briefings. Are you telling the truth? when it comes to that night about your office telling them to hold off? Wilson: I learned at 9.40 p.m., five minutes before 9.45, that a press conference was being planned at Seattle Center. At that time, if I had known that next to no information, apart from my own office's blog post, had been shared with the public since the time of the incident at 6 p.m., I would have immediately said, yes, tell the press everything you know. Yeah, in that, absolutely no direction for my office not to share information. Nope. 👉Reporter: How did you not know? Did you not turn on the TV? Did you not look at half of your phone? Wilson: I was not watching the TV that evening. 👉Reporter: Did no one in your administration know that no information was going out to the public about a mass shooting? Wilson: “The reason why we put out a statement on our website around 8.45 p.m. is because at that point we did realize that nothing was getting out there, and we knew that the public was desperate for information. So we put out a statement with the best information we had at that time from SPD, which, as everyone knows, included some misinformation about the number of suspects who had been taken into custody. “Communications were flying around and I personally at 940 was not aware that basic information such as the status of Seattle Center campus and information about potential suspects at large had not gotten out in any form. “And that information should have been shared earlier. It could have been shared in a number of forms. Social media, the SPD blotter, our emergency alert system, potentially an off-site press conference.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2083301572898169223/amplify_video_thumb/2083301425631899648/img/IR_PNOuwlW6awRPg.jpg)
