The irony of the no-cop CHOP: It showed how much we still need the police after all | The Seattle Times
After the shootings in the past few days near the Capitol Hill anti-police protest zone, the call went out, paradoxically, for the help of the one thing the protest is most arguing against.
Our movement should demand and insist that the Seattle Police fully investigate this attack and be held accountable to bring the killer(s) to justice, said Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant in a statement. One paragraph later she re-upped her demand, however, to defund these same police.
It wasn t just Sawant with the suddenly mixed message. City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda noted in a Monday meeting that we want to make sure that firefighters and EMT have access to do their jobs and help those that need it.
That seems noncontroversial except how do we think ambulances get access to often volatile crime scenes? Who typically does that work of securing shooting scenes, so that aid workers can move in?