HJGale
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@linforseattle.bsky.social @cmdanstrauss.bsky.social @councilmember-amr.bsky.social @cmsaranelson.bsky.social
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing. Reject the police union contract TUES DEC 9th at 2:00pm
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing. Reject the police union contract TUES DEC 9th at 2:00pm
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Op-Ed: Seattle Council Must Reject Harrell’s Police Guild Contract, Demand Accountability » The Urbanist
# Seattle's proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With Seattle City Council set to vote on...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@linforseattle.bsky.social @cmdanstrauss.bsky.social @councilmember-amr.bsky.social @cmsaranelson.bsky.social
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing. Reject the police union contract TUES DEC 9th at 2:00pm
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing. Reject the police union contract TUES DEC 9th at 2:00pm
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing in Seattle.
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
Seattle's proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With the city council set to vote on the contract this month, here's a case for rejecting it.
Op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Op-Ed: Seattle Council Must Reject Harrell’s Police Guild Contract, Demand Accountability » The Urbanist
# Seattle's proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With Seattle City Council set to vote on...
www.theurbanist.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing in Seattle.
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing in Seattle.
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Op-Ed: Seattle Council Must Reject Harrell’s Police Guild Contract, Demand Accountability » The Urbanist
# Seattle's proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With Seattle City Council set to vote on...
www.theurbanist.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Don't undermine public safety, police accountability, & Mayor Wilson's ability to shape policing in Seattle.
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
Tell council to reject the proposed police union contract.
Attend Seattle City Council & give public comment
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9th at 2:00 PM.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
1/4 @councilmember-amr.bsky.social statement “We’re talking about a delicate dance between federal powers—which are more than a local jurisdiction’s—and our police department’s responsibility to protect our residents,” forgets that this is not a question of federal supremacy.
ICE raids are rising, and Seattle says SPD cannot help. Advocates call Harrell’s order mostly symbolic, so the council is pushing SPD to spell out how officers will respond, what they can refuse, and how they will protect residents if federal agents overreach.
Seattle Braces SPD Against ICE Operations
Camille Baldwin-Bonney doesn’t buy it. The police accountability advocate and co-chair of People Power Washington called Mayor Bruce Harrell’s new anti-ICE executive orders “performative rather than s...
www.thestranger.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
1/4 @councilmember-amr.bsky.social statement “We’re talking about a delicate dance between federal powers—which are more than a local jurisdiction’s—and our police department’s responsibility to protect our residents,” forgets that this is not a question of federal supremacy.
1/3 The claim that "while the executive orders can’t change the fact that federal law enforcement trumps local law enforcement," ignores the fact that local law enforcement is still required to protect folks from potential 4th amendment violations regardless of who commits them, even the feds.
ICE raids are rising, and Seattle says SPD cannot help. Advocates call Harrell’s order mostly symbolic, so the council is pushing SPD to spell out how officers will respond, what they can refuse, and how they will protect residents if federal agents overreach.
Seattle Braces SPD Against ICE Operations
Camille Baldwin-Bonney doesn’t buy it. The police accountability advocate and co-chair of People Power Washington called Mayor Bruce Harrell’s new anti-ICE executive orders “performative rather than s...
www.thestranger.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
1/3 The claim that "while the executive orders can’t change the fact that federal law enforcement trumps local law enforcement," ignores the fact that local law enforcement is still required to protect folks from potential 4th amendment violations regardless of who commits them, even the feds.
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nope, same elevated standard for now, issue will go to binding arbitrarion. Contract here: drive.google.com/file/d/1onAE...
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nope, same elevated standard for now, issue will go to binding arbitrarion. Contract here: drive.google.com/file/d/1onAE...
New SPOG contract approved by members & due to be voted on by Seattle City Council:
drive.google.com/file/d/1onAE...
drive.google.com/file/d/1onAE...
2024-2027SPOGCBA.pdf
drive.google.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New SPOG contract approved by members & due to be voted on by Seattle City Council:
drive.google.com/file/d/1onAE...
drive.google.com/file/d/1onAE...
1/2 Go to 25:26 in this video from Sept 12, 2025 of SPD Officer Jeffrey J. Allen in West Seattle: youtube.com/watch?v=FtYA...
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
1/2 Go to 25:26 in this video from Sept 12, 2025 of SPD Officer Jeffrey J. Allen in West Seattle: youtube.com/watch?v=FtYA...
1/2 Amy Radil was provided twice w/docs showing that SPD made false claims re: use-of-force by SPD against folks in crisis. Yet Radil continues to ignore the info & my perspective on the failures of Seattle policing. This information was central to Judge Robart ending the consent decree.
After 13 years of oversight, a federal judge has restored local control of the Seattle Police Department.
Seattle Police released from federal oversight
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September 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
1/2 Amy Radil was provided twice w/docs showing that SPD made false claims re: use-of-force by SPD against folks in crisis. Yet Radil continues to ignore the info & my perspective on the failures of Seattle policing. This information was central to Judge Robart ending the consent decree.
1/3 At a press conference after the federal consent decree was ended yesterday @mayorofseattle.bsky.social responded to my question about if the SPD killing 14 people in crisis is progress: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJV.... After proclaiming their deaths were all legal (!?) &
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
1/3 At a press conference after the federal consent decree was ended yesterday @mayorofseattle.bsky.social responded to my question about if the SPD killing 14 people in crisis is progress: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJV.... After proclaiming their deaths were all legal (!?) &
@mscarter3.bsky.social is always a dependable stenographer for the status quo & the powerful: he repeatedly fails to note the evidence I have provided him documenting the severely flawed data that SPD provides to the federal court. See: x.com/bessarabia1/...
September 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@mscarter3.bsky.social is always a dependable stenographer for the status quo & the powerful: he repeatedly fails to note the evidence I have provided him documenting the severely flawed data that SPD provides to the federal court. See: x.com/bessarabia1/...
1/3 Today @ 10:03am Judge Robart announced he is ending Seattle's 13+ yr. federal consent decree for police oversight. Judge Robart, noting that 4 days ago was the 15th anniversary of SPD's murder of John T. Williams, said "his life was not in vain." Really? How about asking
September 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
1/3 Today @ 10:03am Judge Robart announced he is ending Seattle's 13+ yr. federal consent decree for police oversight. Judge Robart, noting that 4 days ago was the 15th anniversary of SPD's murder of John T. Williams, said "his life was not in vain." Really? How about asking
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social
Will you instruct your police to fully enforce SMC 18.12.280 on 8/30 @ Gas Works -- especially SMC 18.12.280(A) requiring SPD to "assure equal opportunity" for all in park facilities -- or will you have SPD violate SMC 18.12.280 & the rights of protesters?
Will you instruct your police to fully enforce SMC 18.12.280 on 8/30 @ Gas Works -- especially SMC 18.12.280(A) requiring SPD to "assure equal opportunity" for all in park facilities -- or will you have SPD violate SMC 18.12.280 & the rights of protesters?
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social
Will you instruct your police to fully enforce SMC 18.12.280 on 8/30 @ Gas Works -- especially SMC 18.12.280(A) requiring SPD to "assure equal opportunity" for all in park facilities -- or will you have SPD violate SMC 18.12.280 & the rights of protesters?
Will you instruct your police to fully enforce SMC 18.12.280 on 8/30 @ Gas Works -- especially SMC 18.12.280(A) requiring SPD to "assure equal opportunity" for all in park facilities -- or will you have SPD violate SMC 18.12.280 & the rights of protesters?
Here are the relevant legal citations along with the relevant Seattle Parks permit sections that Feucht agreed to when getting the 8/30 Gas Works Park permit:
drive.google.com/file/d/1DiCI...
drive.google.com/file/d/1DiCI...
August 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Here are the relevant legal citations along with the relevant Seattle Parks permit sections that Feucht agreed to when getting the 8/30 Gas Works Park permit:
drive.google.com/file/d/1DiCI...
drive.google.com/file/d/1DiCI...
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imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social Will you instruct your police to fully enforce SMC 18.12.280 on 8/30 @ Gas Works -- especially SMC 18.12.280(A) requiring SPD to "assure equal opportunity" for all in park facilities -- or will you have SPD violate SMC 18.12.280 & the rights of protesters?
August 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social Will you instruct your police to fully enforce SMC 18.12.280 on 8/30 @ Gas Works -- especially SMC 18.12.280(A) requiring SPD to "assure equal opportunity" for all in park facilities -- or will you have SPD violate SMC 18.12.280 & the rights of protesters?
Trans Rights Event to Counter Sean Feucht's Christian Nationalist Rally
Trans Rights Event to Counter Sean Feucht's Christian Nationalist Rally
Anti-queer Christian nationalists are coming back to Seattle this weekend for Sean Feucht's worship rally at Gas Works Park. To counter the hate, Lavender Rights Project (LRP), a Seattle-based transge...
www.thestranger.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
1/3 We can give Feucht & other christofascist grifters what they want by fighting them on 8/30 in Seattle or we can guarantee their defeat, never to return, by ensuring Seattle law SMC 18.12.280 is enforced (library.municode.com/wa/seattle/c...). The 8/30 event is permitted & advertised as public.
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
1/3 We can give Feucht & other christofascist grifters what they want by fighting them on 8/30 in Seattle or we can guarantee their defeat, never to return, by ensuring Seattle law SMC 18.12.280 is enforced (library.municode.com/wa/seattle/c...). The 8/30 event is permitted & advertised as public.
1/5 Wow! Way for @thestranger.com to lose the lead & portray Harrell as clever when he got supremely clowned. Feucht posted this to FB way earlier today: www.facebook.com/events/74007...
Feucht WILL be at Cal Anderson Park regardless of permits or agreements with Harrell. Feucht's current schedule:
Feucht WILL be at Cal Anderson Park regardless of permits or agreements with Harrell. Feucht's current schedule:
August 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
1/5 Wow! Way for @thestranger.com to lose the lead & portray Harrell as clever when he got supremely clowned. Feucht posted this to FB way earlier today: www.facebook.com/events/74007...
Feucht WILL be at Cal Anderson Park regardless of permits or agreements with Harrell. Feucht's current schedule:
Feucht WILL be at Cal Anderson Park regardless of permits or agreements with Harrell. Feucht's current schedule:
1/2 Sean Feucht has posted all over social media & on his website that the 8/30 event WILL be @ Cal Anderson.
At 7pm on Thurs Feucht posted on X:
At 7pm on Thurs Feucht posted on X:
The city of Seattle is currently planning to approve a permit for a far-right anti-LGBTQ group to rally at Cal Anderson Park tomorrow. Look for lots of official statements (and coverage that may or may not credit our exclusive scoop yesterday) on Friday; read all the details on PubliCola today.
Exclusive: Christian Nationalist Rally by Anti-LGBTQ Group Will Take Place at Cal Anderson Park
Barring a last-minute change of heart, the city plans to permit the Memorial Day event this week based on legal advice from City Attorney Ann Davison.
publicola.com/2025/08/13/c...
Barring a last-minute change of heart, the city plans to permit the Memorial Day event this week based on legal advice from City Attorney Ann Davison.
publicola.com/2025/08/13/c...
August 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
1/2 Sean Feucht has posted all over social media & on his website that the 8/30 event WILL be @ Cal Anderson.
At 7pm on Thurs Feucht posted on X:
At 7pm on Thurs Feucht posted on X:
1/2 Ok, new plan: show up at Seattle Council public comment on Tues 7/29 at 2pm and, pretending to be landlords, say "Council President Nelson, this is not what we have paid you to do! Renters have little money and should therefore have little voice! Your council has worked so hard to
We need to show up to Monday's Special Council Mtg @ 9:30am & the 2pm Council Briefing w/a clear & righteous message: "Renters are over half of Seattle residents. You chose to use your power to render our meetings non-functional, we now chose to use our power to render your meetings non-functional."
Renters Commission Appointments Thwarted by Saka and Nelson's Last-Minute Absence from Their Own Committee
Saka was reportedly in his office during the meeting. Nelson's whereabouts remain unknown.
publicola.com/2025/07/23/r...
Saka was reportedly in his office during the meeting. Nelson's whereabouts remain unknown.
publicola.com/2025/07/23/r...
July 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
1/2 Ok, new plan: show up at Seattle Council public comment on Tues 7/29 at 2pm and, pretending to be landlords, say "Council President Nelson, this is not what we have paid you to do! Renters have little money and should therefore have little voice! Your council has worked so hard to
We need to show up to Monday's Special Council Mtg @ 9:30am & the 2pm Council Briefing w/a clear & righteous message: "Renters are over half of Seattle residents. You chose to use your power to render our meetings non-functional, we now chose to use our power to render your meetings non-functional."
Renters Commission Appointments Thwarted by Saka and Nelson's Last-Minute Absence from Their Own Committee
Saka was reportedly in his office during the meeting. Nelson's whereabouts remain unknown.
publicola.com/2025/07/23/r...
Saka was reportedly in his office during the meeting. Nelson's whereabouts remain unknown.
publicola.com/2025/07/23/r...
Renters Commission Appointments Thwarted by Saka and Nelson's Last-Minute Absence from Their Own Committee - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett For 18 months, under former city councilmember Cathy Moore’s leadership, nominees to the Seattle Renters Commission…
publicola.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We need to show up to Monday's Special Council Mtg @ 9:30am & the 2pm Council Briefing w/a clear & righteous message: "Renters are over half of Seattle residents. You chose to use your power to render our meetings non-functional, we now chose to use our power to render your meetings non-functional."
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Op-Ed: Inquest into Faletogo Killing Highlights Seattle Police Accountability Failures www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/22/o...
Op-Ed: Inquest into Faletogo Killing Highlights Seattle Police Accountability Failures - The Urbanist
# A 2018 traffic stop ended with a horrific Seattle police killing of Iosia Faletogo deemed
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May 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Op-Ed: Inquest into Faletogo Killing Highlights Seattle Police Accountability Failures www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/22/o...
My new piece on continuing proof that Seattle's police accountability system is a failure.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/22/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/22/o...
Op-Ed: Inquest into Faletogo Killing Highlights Seattle Police Accountability Failures - The Urbanist
# A 2018 traffic stop ended with a horrific Seattle police killing of Iosia Faletogo deemed
www.theurbanist.org
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My new piece on continuing proof that Seattle's police accountability system is a failure.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/22/o...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/22/o...