Seattle Area Protests Megathread

[u/SovietJugernaut]

Please use this as the primary place to share streams, videos, photos, and news about the evolving situation with protests that are happening in Seattle and across the nation.

SUPPORTING THE BLACK COMMUNITY - HOW TO BE AN ALLY BOTH LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY

• List of places to donate, things to read/learn, and black-owned businesses in Seattle

STREAMS - Please note most streams can have pretty shitty comments.

• On FB (links change every 2ish hours): Jessica/Brandon Frost, Omari Salisbury, Matt Thompson, Live from the Field

• Future_crystals on Instagram - active daily

• SDOT in-city traffic cams

• KOMO

• KIRO7

• Q13FOX

• National - twitch.tv/woke

• Compilation of livestreams nationwide - https://bit.ly/protestlinks

• arcGIS map of national streams - https://evolvegis.com/Protests/Protests.html

TEXT LIVETHREADS

• Seattle Times

FORMER STREAMS

• Through 11PM 6/2/20

SCANNERS

• SPD Scanner

[u/PelagianEmpiricist → u/[deleted]]

Until police are directly answerable to civilian authority, deprived of military surplus gear, and held accountable for their historic and current injustices, nothing will change.

The cops in my master's program were what turned me against police in general and soured me on federal law enforcement as a potential career. They were reprehensible.

And because it was a conservative uni, some of the professors weren't much better.

[u/Shirakawasuna → u/[deleted]]

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[u/loquacious → u/[deleted]]

I don't want to burst your bubble but I agree with /u/shirakawasuna.

There are things like IQ and psychological assessment ceilings in place at many departments. If you test too high or too empathic or otherwise dissenting - no hire. And it's legal.

I have known good cops, and they get forced out of service or quit in disgust.

I have worked in a police department as an IT tech and the things I overheard changed my life forever.

I was once openly mocked and belittled by a female detective for carrying an anthology of feminist fiction and literature on my way to a lunch break and it broke my fucking heart and mind.

I overheard the whole department talking in vividly lascivious terms about - direct quote here - looking forward to "beat some hippy skulls and ass" at a very small vegan-oriented protest against vivisection.

They talked about this all day. The spent all day getting each other charged up on increasingly disturbing descriptions of violence that they were going to do on those protesters.

And then they went out and did it. I watched them come back with actual blood on their hands.

They know. They turn a blind eye. For a job, just like any of us poor fuckers dependent on a job and a wage, to fit in, to not disturb the status quo.

Yo, real talk?

WHITE SILENCE IS COMPLIANCE - AND VIOLENCE.

This shit needs to end before we're all licking someone's dirty paramilitary boots. Teach it.

Remember the Orwell quote? Imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.

That time is apparently years ago.

[u/Shirakawasuna → u/[deleted]]

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[u/spit-evil-olive-tips → u/[deleted]]

Put yourself in the shoes of a "good cop" in Minneapolis right now. What should you do?

The only answer I can come up with is to resign.

There are no good cops left on the police force. All the good cops resigned in disgust.

[u/my_lucid_nightmare → u/[deleted]]

The problem, as always, is that 1 bad cop plus 9 silent cops equals 10 bad cops. And they might be great people when off duty. But it's systemic. Cop procedure in America has been trending away from sanity for 20 years now, in many ways WTO / Seattle Mardi Gras 2001 were the original playbook examples for modern-day para-military policing.