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[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

Here's a running mega-thread of all our police profiles for easy reading.

Check back regularly for updates.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

ngl this stoned rain cloud labeled "Seattle Weather" kinda fucks

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

Grok, draw a shitty cartoon of Katie Wilson, but make it look nothing like Katie Wilson, but also label it "Mayor Katie Wilson" so everyone will know it's Katie Wilson.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

Whelp, that does it. They made a big bust, and fentanyl will no longer be cheap and plentiful in the CID.

Hurrah for the good guys! Hurrah!

[KIRO 7 @KIRO7Seattle]

“Mr. Pham was fueled by greed, putting profit ahead of human life as the source of supply funneling fentanyl and other illicit drugs into Seattle’s Chinatown International District and ‘The Jungle,’” https://t.co/uUZsiUWcr5

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

The Florida Polytechnic University Police’s new manned quadcopter costs $150k and can only fly 20 minutes at a time

Its costlier and less practical than a drone.

But unlike a drone, it puts a cop in physical danger, so critical support for this latest advance in cop tech!

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@ratatatatx @dunegrass00 Not incarcerating youth pretrial helps literally everyone. He will go to trial and face punishment if convicted. Until then, he is legally innocent. https://t.co/TWFVxs661f

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

To everyone claiming, "Those weak liberal judges did it again!"
* Forensics established he didn't shoot anyone
* He had a plausible self-defense claim
* He's 15 years old.

With no significant priors, house arrest while awaiting trial is a just outcome for a minor.

[SEATTLESUBMISSIONS @SEATTLESUBMISS]

#BREAKING: Just 3 Months After Bite of Seattle Shooting Left 3 DEAD and 4 INJURED, 15-Year-Old Suspect Released to House Arrest!

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

UW looked at 46,000 cases across 32 jurisdictions over 13 years.

They found pretrial juvenile detention increased the odds of felony recidivism in the next year by 33%.

The odds increased by 1% per day detained. You’re not making the world safer with bad policy

[Washington State GOP @WAGOP]

@DivestSPD @dunegrass00 Name one.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

Probably didn't know who Zapata was or what he was about.

He just thought: "Hey, I should get a tattoo of the cool mustache guy from all the Mexican food restaurants."

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

This morning ICE was spotted going into the L.A. Twin Towers Correctional Facility, onw of whom has an identifying tattoo of Emiliano Zapata Salazar, who lead the Mexican revolution of the 1910s. For shame.
The video clip shows abandoned food stalls of vendors kidnapped by ICE.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

Imagine being “threatened” and “intimidated” by redditors, a group whose defining characteristic is running their mouths online but never doing shit.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

"violence threats and intimidation"

The receipts are a bunch of redditors saying, "Maybe we should protest this."

You're rich. If redditors scare you that much, hire private goons, dumbass.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Violence Threats and Intimidation Don’t Belong in WA

I was supposed to speak today at noon to the Thurston County Mainstream Republicans at a restaurant in Olympia.

Instead, the restaurant received threats of violence and talk of protests in the street if the event went forward. They cancelled. Online, hateful reddit trolls posted my photo and were organizing to show up. (They have since deleted one of the posts.. hmmm)

Consider who this hurts. A small local restaurant, a room full of neighbors who wanted to hear about three ballot measures, and every Washingtonian who believes you answer speech with more speech.

We've seen this before. Signature gatherers for Let's Go Washington have been harassed, shoved and threatened. Signature sheets have been stolen, torn, or defaced, all by people who say they're fighting "hate."

So here's a simple request to No Hate in WA State: say it plainly. Political violence and threats have no place in Washington, and anyone doing it in your cause's name or agenda should cut it out.

We're looking into whether a police report has been filed. We will not be intimidated.

And neither should you. The best answer to people who try to scare you into silence is a ballot in a drop box: https://t.co/y0gvrF8YxQ

Vote YES. Vote YES. Vote YES.
IP26-645, IL26-001 & IL26-63

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@LondonBel0w5 that was a joke. To be clear.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

He can go to his version of Epstein Island, a micronation on an abandoned oil rig that he named Galt's Outpost.

It's Japan-themed, and there's no age of consent

[🅰️©️🅰️🅱️ IN THE BIO @GrumpyMoe]

@DivestSPD He could always just fuck off on his yacht too

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@weheartseattle Where are your reports on the outcomes of all the people you supposedly “helped” how many stayed housed? How many got clean? How many moved to permanent housing?

DESC has these reports. You have some number on a website. You claim that you have to “prove” results. Prove it.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

"Private donations keep this work going"

WHS takes in 10-15x more donations than are needed to pick up trash for like four hours once weekly.

It's sitting on $800k in assets, at least. Andrea pays her "program directors" through a temp agency and gives them no benefits.

[We Heart Seattle @weheartseattle]

More unattended lethal drugs in our residential parks today. Nobody else is picking this stuff up, so We Heart Seattle is. Private donations keep this work going enables documenting the harm on the ground and pushing lawmakers for stronger penalties on narcotics in parks.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@weheartseattle Why are you reporting half as much activity and spending 10 times as much?

With 4x as many full-time “case managers” as you had in 2021, you should be helping 4x as many people, right? Not half as many.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

We Heart Seattle spends 10x as much to pick up less trash and do half as many cleanup events.

It's taking in nearly $1 million annually. Where's that going?

2021 (First Year):
Expenses: $70.6k
Events: 107
Trash: 361k lbs

2025
Expenses: $732k
Events: 52
Trash: 270k lbs

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@lindayen29 @Mcmike4251 We file 100s of public records requests and publish five days a week across seven platforms, while spending a sixth of what Andrea pays herself in salary to pick up trash one day a week and post videos.

If you want to talk about being “swindled”

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@bipolarguy86 That’s why he will go to court to face charges

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@jimjames2002 That will all be resolved *in court* We are talking about pretrial detention.

Holding a 15 year old minor on house arrest for a weapons charge and a felony assault charge is appropriate. PERIODT.

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@Kingofqueenanne Because it’s a one-person right-wing content operation masquerading as a trash pickup group

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

We Heart Seattle spends 10x as much to pick up less trash and do half as many cleanup events.

It's taking in nearly $1 million annually. Where's that going?

2021 (First Year):
Expenses: $70.6k
Events: 107
Trash: 361k lbs

2025
Expenses: $732k
Events: 52
Trash: 270k lbs

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@Mcmike4251 https://t.co/bTNaO4ALXA

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

@seando That’s not how the law works.