22 April 2022 : You'll find "us versus them," i.e. class conflict, literally everywhere in Marx.
13 April 2022 : It's been a decade since the consent decree was put into place, and these disparities persist year after year after year. At some point, you have to look at why.
15 March 2022 : See this thread: https://twitter.com/bryan_kirschner/status/1452068858114625542?s=20&t=FMEsQpZi6-3WuM62IF4BjQ
22 February 2022 : RT @ZakirSpeaks: Four unarmed women were shot for managing traffic for a protest.
22 February 2022 : Wow, Portland SWAT just confiscated a massive arsenal from the apartment of rightwing mass shooter Ben Smith. https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1496016433104539650
6 February 2022 : In honor of your service, we've awarded you this honorary sash. Wear it with pride, Seth! https://twitter.com/saarbris/status/1490381963173056512 pic.twitter.com/OYzh6lZ5iP
29 January 2022 : This fella https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-commander-files-5-48-million-claim-alleging-chief-diaz-falsely-blamed-him-for-pink-umbrella-incident/
19 January 2022 : It should be clear to anyone reading this blotter that the person in this "crime spree" has some sort of untreated mental illness. If we had a functional healthcare system this never would've happened. Instead, they'll imprison this guy for decades. https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2022/01/18/police-arrest-man-monday-who-assaulted-toddler-pushed-women-into-lake-washington/
19 January 2022 : What exactly are you basing this on? This is a pretty serious claim. Surely you must have some receipts to back that up.
4 January 2022 : Houston driving dangerously fast kills an elder. https://twitter.com/chron/status/1478422222482124802
29 December 2021 : Broke: The Milk Man’s Baby Woke: The Sailor Man’s Baby https://twitter.com/DivestSPD/status/1476039753682530307
28 December 2021 : Friend of fascists and police murder apologist Andy Ngo has a take. pic.twitter.com/oPNFXL1ghs
17 December 2021 : PA invented solitary confinement and the modern prison system. The original American prison system was 100% solitary confinement and they had to stop it because it drove all the prisoners insane. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pennsylvania-system
10 December 2021 : Correction: Fanta was killed on Aug. 27. The news broke nationwide last month confirming that it was, in fact, Sharon Hill police who killed her.
10 December 2021 : pic.twitter.com/d7ZlTRqkSL
17 November 2021 : And St. Louis also just happens to be dominated by a racist white elite, so... https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/uneasy-past-veiled-prophet-organization/
16 November 2021 : White on white pic.twitter.com/7TSrIem8sD
13 November 2021 : Anyways, we’d see a much greater reduction in violence if we took the whole CSO budget and just paid poor kids cash money not to be in gangs. Seriously.
9 November 2021 : One famous 1997 study by Steven Levitt (The "Freakanomics" guy) did find an association between cops and reduced crime but... Levitt walked it back in 2002 after another researcher found serious "programming and classification errors" https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUsingElectoralCycles2002.pdf https://twitter.com/DivestSPD/status/1457910536910245895
7 November 2021 : Do you think tactics should be judged the same irrespective of the concrete ideologies and policies involved? For example, the Allies and the Nazis both used bombing campaigns in WWII. Do you also think they were substantively and morally equivalent?
3 November 2021 : She’s walking picket lines huh? Last year she was walking away from the Democratic Party. She sure loves walking https://youtu.be/a2-1F09j_rE
2 November 2021 : If all four progressive candidates win, JRantz will his whole diap. Vote. pic.twitter.com/VCHo7avnck
2 November 2021 : In UDistrict. They sent five cruisers and like 8 cops to arrest 1 guy. pic.twitter.com/3ETAj9HAXw
31 October 2021 : So she’s going to get murdered by German social democrats?
29 October 2021 : Yeah, you’re closer on the spectrum to those unhinged reactionaries. How does that feel, as a good Biden-voting lib?
29 October 2021 : Here’s an actual voicemail sent to the NTK campaign. You helped whip up this hate. These are your people. https://drive.google.com/file/d/111qcKVlCV805D-AfboaRqqWNqhqI2LL3/view?usp=drivesdk
24 October 2021 : pic.twitter.com/YrPQZf9Yq7
22 October 2021 : I spaced poor people occupy, cops are everywhere. Walking down the street. There’s a cop. Go to grocery store. There’s an off-duty cop. Go to Dick’s there’s another one.
22 October 2021 : Some folks think abolition is so far-fetched but it already exists for the rich. You don’t see cops at elite private academies slamming some little lord Fauntleroy’s head into his desk. They don’t need abolition because the police were never there.
19 October 2021 : Ann Davison: “Science is a liar sometimes” https://twitter.com/neighborsforann/status/1275652855526014977 pic.twitter.com/2zhGuJWvLO
17 October 2021 : The top donor to the pro-Ann Davison SuperPAC is the president of Microsoft A lot of the people who donate to NTK are people who sell their labor as a commodity to tech companies like Microsoft, ie workers. This isn’t the dunk you think it is. Read some Marx, dumbass.
17 October 2021 : Sad reaccs only. Prayers up in the chat. https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1449434078730592257
16 October 2021 : Note: This is not an official video from the campaign. It was made by a volunteer.
16 October 2021 : 🎃Spooky new campaign ad from @ntkallday 🎃 pic.twitter.com/F0M9S8YDIC
16 October 2021 : Looks like he’s about to host the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards
14 October 2021 : @NeighborsForAnn wants to posture like she’s a moderate Dem, but she... ✅ Ran for Lt. Governor as a Republican in 2020 ✅ Paid $12k to Trumpist goons to fling shit at NTK ✅ Thinks the solution for homelessness is concentration camps Quacks like a duck and all that... pic.twitter.com/GWAakq4qai
8 October 2021 : SPD officer Andrei Constantin and Andy Ngo superfan caught glorifying violence on an anonymous Twitter account https://twitter.com/WhiteRoseAFA/status/1446542570604146690
7 October 2021 : Myerberg wants a wider range of disciplinary options to almost never exercise. https://twitter.com/faruq_kiefer/status/1445796544351932417
30 September 2021 : two weeks ago, SPD sent like three dozen cops to arrest one drunk. That's ~30 cops averaging $50-60/hr.
25 August 2021 : cw: violence, death BREAKING: OPA recommends 20-day suspension & disciplinary transfer for K9 officer Christopher Gregorio for the fatal shooting of Terry Caver. Gregorio shot Caver, a Black man in crisis, in the back as he was fleeing. https://twitter.com/SeattleOPA/status/1430638732349083649
9 August 2021 : The auditor, who submitted their resignation Aug. 5 said that the OIG, which provides oversight of the OPA, has become little more than a rubber stamp for its investigations.
2 August 2021 : Seattle has nearly twice as many unsheltered homeless as the *entire* UK (pop. 66 million). It’s truly shameful how our city has failed its most vulnerable.
28 July 2021 : Kinda sus that Bernie didn’t endorse the only person running openly as a democratic socialist in Seattle
28 July 2021 : Endorse @NikkitaOliver , you coward https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1420156083159638021
27 July 2021 : "It seems that when police departments are facing a scandal, particularly one with a racial element, they bring in a Black woman to create a veneer of progress." http://justinward.medium.com/black-women-wont-save-policing-e79c49b1fce3?sk=0c8a3fdd81aa7c9fbdd0e97f26388e83
18 July 2021 : ACAEA (All Cops Are Eldritch Abominations) pic.twitter.com/PF7MTSWNLK
11 July 2021 : https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1413952449090576397 pic.twitter.com/2jogcDyiVa
8 July 2021 : Still no report into the six officers who attended the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, which was expected today. Findings were posted in the OPA complaint database, however. Spoiler alert: None were sustained. pic.twitter.com/ZrLh5n4ffS
28 June 2021 : Tip the author of this thread (@justwardoctine) http://venmo.com/JWard3000
26 June 2021 : Andy thinks this video somehow makes his case. The legal standard (Graham v Connor) is “necessary and proportional” Even if he were resisting, punching someone you have pinned to the ground multiple times is hardly a “proportional” response. https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1408636927553818625
19 June 2021 : https://twitter.com/lydie_glass/status/1406382149855440898 pic.twitter.com/RlNy7Hr3Iq
16 June 2021 : @realmikesolan : “SPD officers are fantastic human beings” SPD officers: https://twitter.com/divestspd/status/1404900458758492162
9 June 2021 : What’s happening at YouthCare’s Casa Latina facility is going on across the country. Gov-run shelters are cooperating with ICE and police https://twitter.com/reveal/status/1402341421382717444
10 May 2021 : Two ways you can support our work Volunteer at http://bit.ly/DivestVolunteer Donate at http://Venmo.com/DivestSPD pic.twitter.com/qQ78Fyq2BJ
3 May 2021 : New cop drops every MWF. Support our work at http://Venmo.com/DivestSPD
30 April 2021 : Her daily goal was to improve on yesterday! Good job.1
30 April 2021 : SpaceX originally intended to follow its light Falcon 1 launch vehicle with an intermediate capacity vehicle, the Falcon 5. SpaceX instead decided in 2005 to proceed with the development of the Falcon 9, a reusable heavier lift vehicle. Development of the Falcon 8.261
30 April 2021 : You all know that a lot of rockets have been and will be launched into space this year.44
30 April 2021 : There are only a 24h. left before the 7 end.y
30 April 2021 : There are only a 24h. left before the 7 end.y
30 April 2021 : Party ---> 👉/wvw.btcgate. net
28 April 2021 : According to the police scanners, SPD had observed a van matching that description just outside of CHOP the day prior and chose to do nothing about it. At least one of the Proud Boys, Tiny Toese, was on probation for multiple assault charges. (5/12) https://twitter.com/spekulation/status/13ZX175237715681281?s=20
26 April 2021 : Hey! This blew up. DivestSPD doesn't have a soundcloud, but our founder and lead researcher Justin has a Medium page: http://justinward.medium.com You can also Venmo him at JW-DivestSPD
6 April 2021 : On a per capita basis, the United States has nearly seven times the prison population of China, but go off Tommy. https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1379438205704019969 pic.twitter.com/5sS7LiZkxv
31 March 2021 : https://twitter.com/DivestSPD/status/1376952236916371456 pic.twitter.com/fIMabfqKju
14 March 2021 : pic.twitter.com/JzS2lIU3HF
11 March 2021 : 11 / Christopher Couet https://twitter.com/DivestSPD/status/1370130347984183300?s=20
8 March 2021 : Fuller was held in jail for 4 days but released without charges. When he filed an OPA complaint detailing the officers’ racial profiling and violent escalation, the OPA investigator Caryn Lee lobbied to have Fuller prosecuted (3/9)
12 February 2021 : He was stopped for expired tags and murdered. Outrageous. https://twitter.com/noellecrombie/status/1360250652358660096
12 February 2021 : Murdered by police over a busted tail light https://twitter.com/noellecrombie/status/1360250652358660096
10 January 2021 : RT @seattlechopart: I'M DEAD. SPD just donated flip flops in the dead of winter. Not even kidding. https://t.co/CRordWn8Pb
17 December 2020 : Maybe to someone who has third grade reading comprehension.
9 December 2020 : Did you ever happen to visit those blocks that were “shut down” and see that all the businesses were open + traffic was only closed on one street for like ... an intersection or so?
5 December 2020 : What KCEN is doing is unprecedented. Their subcontractors on this research project are grassroots orgs and community members, not consultancies with accounting departments. It’s going to be messy.
22 November 2020 : RT @no_slave_coasts: Oh forgot to update yall this group that may or may not be disbanded known as the Valkyries and/or the Sentinels are t…
13 November 2020 : pic.twitter.com/rY4rY3cjux
13 November 2020 : DivestSPD bylaws allow for shitposting btw the hours of midnight - 3am. We present CM Lisa Herb-old pic.twitter.com/D0QJYpIwBb
7 November 2020 : Still from an old propaganda video made by the Seattle Police Foundation that our co-chair @babychickan found. It shows scenes of BLM protests, then cuts to this. Really telling on themselves pic.twitter.com/iopgHRohjx
5 November 2020 : Our very own cochair kelli quoted in real change 👏🏽🤎lie detector test determined no lies. She said what she said ✊🏽💅🏽💕✨ https://twitter.com/sharethecities/status/1324145484575854594
3 November 2020 : @SeattleGoodwill has a giant warehouse full of unsorted donations that just sit there for years. Their program costs for job training are mostly covered by grants. They could literally just give out clothes and blankets to the homeless for free. Infuriating https://twitter.com/sydbrownstone/status/1323668580869681152
29 October 2020 : Tonight from 6-8 pm @SeattleDSA is hosting a virtual townhall on the city budget with @CMTammyMorales and DivestSPD co-chair Kelli Branch ( @babychickan ) RSVP using the link below for more details https://seattledsa.org/event/seattle-dsa-town-hall-with-council-member-tammy-morales/
20 October 2020 : Speakers will include: @chrissyshimizoo / @DecrimSeattle @NikkitaOliver / @4CJUSTICE @meganfrancis / @UW RSVP @ http://bit.ly/Charity2Solidarity pic.twitter.com/DBBT0Azl2r
20 October 2020 : Our campaign to pressure grantmakers like the Seattle Foundation to cut ties w/ the Seattle Police Foundation offers an opportunity for a broader conversation about ways philanthropy perpetuates racial inequality Join us for a teach-in on this topic Sunday Oct 25 at 3 pm pic.twitter.com/QRYWqeyQob
15 September 2020 : Unlike the NYPD, the tanks in Tiananmen square actually stopped.
12 September 2020 : pic.twitter.com/ZhbLIt3idl
4 September 2020 : Lmao at Andy over here play-acting like he's an actual reporter. "Trying to confirm" = waiting for it to come on CNN or whatever. pic.twitter.com/tZUwNLBXnw
2 September 2020 : If you are concerned about a friend or loved one who has mental health issues, DON'T CALL THE POLICE TO DO A "WELLNESS CHECK." Go check on them your own damn self. Or call a mental health professional. https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/1300772683769171971
30 August 2020 : Christian also attended Patriot Prayer events. https://www.wweek.com/news/2017/05/31/who-radicalized-jeremy-christian-alt-right-extremists-rush-to-distance-themselves-from-max-slaying-suspect/
30 August 2020 : Danielson had previously said Portland MAX murderer Jeremy Christian had a "right to defend himself." Christian accosted a Muslim woman on the train and stabbed two men who tried to intervene. https://twitter.com/itsmikebivins/status/871099079710953472?s=20
29 August 2020 : Also...ever reactionary is like "If they didn't resist, they'd still be alive today." The people shot in the Boston Massacre were pelting British soldiers with blocks of ice, oyster shells and stones. They beat the shit out of one beforehand. pic.twitter.com/OVaqb7ffJD
29 August 2020 : Every rightwinger who has a boner for the American Revolution is also filling their diaps over people chanting outside officials' homes. The Sons of Liberty, which included several signatories to the constitution, burned & looted the homes of officials and tax collectors. https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1299204319384805376 pic.twitter.com/P7pObCcAKE
29 August 2020 : Then the twist: The killer discovers that he killed the wrong woman. (End chapter 1) (8/x) pic.twitter.com/bjoRJgwj5n
29 August 2020 : Then he proceeds to stab her in the chest, which Dietrich describes as artlessly as possible in gratuitous gory detail (7/x) CW/TW pic.twitter.com/MRX4iw0740
29 August 2020 : He finds her room and breaks in. (6/x) pic.twitter.com/EM5F1aRcI3
29 August 2020 : A cop wrote a book about a cop who writes books DivestSPD presents... A guided reading of “Griffin’s Way: A Jim Churchill Mystery” by S.F. Dietrich (SPD Lt. Seth Dietrich) CW: Graphic violence (1/x) pic.twitter.com/jpbBpg7tAf
17 August 2020 : The media keeps saying "Defund police, excessive force, teargas, consent decree" I just wanna grill for God's sake! https://twitter.com/KromanDavid/status/1295370703110197248
5 August 2020 : Also the social media post for the customer says every meal purchased by the customer helps cover part of the free burgers, which implies that a portion of the sales is being put toward free product for SPD. pic.twitter.com/OJbvmiLAn4
1 August 2020 : Sgt Creamer ordered the tenant arrested for “obstruction” (that charge again) at which time guests protested. Several more officers had arrived, incl Briskey, & one yelled “Come on motherfuckers, let’s do this!” before they charged into the gate. (15/24)
1 August 2020 : The tenant refused entry to the first three officers on the scene entry, demanding a warrant. Officers claimed falsely that there was underage drinking and marijuana use (illegal at the time) at the party. The tenant asked them to leave. (14/24) pic.twitter.com/5qqzqQ6QDw
31 July 2020 : All charges against the partygoers and Stoffel were eventually dismissed. Their lawsuit was settled through arbitration for $195k, according to their attorney. (21/24) pic.twitter.com/9c1JpsKvC0
31 July 2020 : Adams was hospitalized with a fibula fracture that, according to hospital records, “could be conceptualized as a nightstick injury to that area due to beating with batons by police officers” (20/24) pic.twitter.com/xMmgAPRpun
31 July 2020 : While much of the complaint deals with Bauer’s shovel rampage, Briskey makes a brief appearance. According to documents, he cornered Matthew Adams, tasered him, struck him with a baton and stomped his leg. Adams was charged with assault and arrested. (19/24) pic.twitter.com/M1dyslfJc0
31 July 2020 : According to the complaint, Bauer and another officer hit two women, Ms. Gan and Ms. Picon. Gan was falsely charged with assaulting him and arrested. She was later diagnosed with “occipital hematoma” from a blow with a blunt object. (18/24) pic.twitter.com/BMOpBnzKjE
31 July 2020 : Side note: Yesterday, we posted about Ofc. Bauer, who had been caught on camera punching and kicking an immigrant in the head in 2010, which was deemed permissible by pre-consent decree force policies. https://twitter.com/DivestSPD/status/1289030177742139393?s=20 (17/24)
31 July 2020 : One officer, identified as David Bauer, picked up a shovel and began “using it to push ppl away from the gate and into the yard.” He split guest Connor Day's scalp open w/ it. (16/24) pic.twitter.com/UdpF4U1kkr
31 July 2020 : Sgt Creamer ordered the tenant Mr. Stoffel arrested for “obstruction” (that charge again) at which time guests protested. Several more officers had arrived, incl Briskey, & one yelled “Come on motherfuckers, let’s do this!” before they charged into the gate. (15/24)
31 July 2020 : The tenant refused entry to the first three officers on the scene entry, demanding a warrant. Officers claimed falsely that there was underage drinking and marijuana use (illegal at the time) at the party. The tenant asked them to leave. (14/24) pic.twitter.com/ciqQbQaXnv
26 July 2020 : @komonews is letting its reporters dress up in SPD-provided riot gear and film from behind the police line. pic.twitter.com/kVCytDOXy4
20 July 2020 : If @Starbucks can afford to give free treats + customized teddy bears to the entire police department on Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, I imagine they have the spare cash to fix a few broken windows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/1TixNq6srT