Top Tweets for #DefundSPD
Amidst a $260 million budget deficit where there are over 100 City workers getting laid off, this Council just approved $50,000 hiring bonuses for SPD.
SPD officers have received a 23% pay increase this year, and the department is seeing an increase of 15% in this year's budget.
“A person riding the…bus…shot a video of two SPD officers forcing a man to his stomach by punching him, kneeing him, & hitting him 3 to 5 times with a baton…one officer’s knee appears pinned right on or near the man’s neck” #PoliceBrutality #DefundSPD https://t.co/Po4SolfPjq
Why does Washington have 5!!!! Cop cities literally the most out of any other state.. it’s terrifying that I was ignorant to this information and I’m sure many others are as well #defundSPD #ACAB
🚨 There are SIXTY-NINE Cop Cities being built or already built since 2020 across the US.
These urban counter-insurgency training centers are called euphemisms like "public safety facility."
The only states without plans for this type of project are ND, VT & WY.
Interactive map: https://t.co/v7TZellFTC
“It took 2 Seattle Police officers over 20 min to respond to the scene of a shooting where someone was shot.
Further investigation showed 1 of the officers caught on dashcam punching a homeless man so hard he knocked him to the ground” #DefundSPD https://t.co/jZ1kzsfGEb
“Seattle has agreed to pay $10m to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020” #PoliceBrutality #DefundSPD #GeorgeFloyd https://t.co/7i16Kfemyi
"The City admits no wrongdoing in the case." #DefundSPD
Breaking: Seattle will pay $10 million to settle a case brought by 2020 protesters, who cops gassed for a week and roughed up for a month in response to the uprising following George Floyd's murder. "The City admits no wrongdoing in the case."
“This pattern of violence only cont 2 show that we as people need 2 stand up together 2 resist the oppression we all face. We ask that all of u reading this pay critical attention 2 the policies & practices of the City…” —@blackstarfarmer #BLM #DefundSPD https://t.co/0swgJDOnh4
“SPD says it will review a policy that allows a police union official to be involved in an investigation of a rank-and-file officer they represent & defend, a potential conflict of interest that has emerged in the death of #JaahnaviKandula” #DefundSPD https://t.co/T1osyt7uxG
Compelling op-ed from South Asian Seattleites in the wake of the body cam recording of Seattle police union Vice President Daniel Auderer's laughing about Jaahnavi Kandula’s death. #DefundSPD #abolition https://t.co/DGp6Qi06GF
“SPOG has fought implementation of body & dash cameras, & its last contract — it’s been more than 2 years without a new one — undermined a City Council-passed officer accountability ordinance & prolonged federal oversight”
#JaahnaviKandula #DefundSPD https://t.co/T1osyt7uxG
“SPD says it will review a policy that allows a police union official to be involved in an investigation of a rank-and-file officer they represent & defend, a potential conflict of interest that has emerged in the death of #JaahnaviKandula” #DefundSPD https://t.co/T1osyt7uxG
“In the recording, Auderer laughs w/ Solan & says, ‘just write a check’ 2 make up 4 the loss of #JaahnaviKandula’s life. He then says, ‘11,000 💵. She was 26 anyway. She had limited value.’ (In truth, she was 23 & her life had limitless value.)” #DefundSPD https://t.co/o1VExxQYMY
“More than 200 people on Thurs took to the Seattle intersection where a 23yo student was fatally struck by an officer’s cruiser early this year. They called for accountability for the officer who killed her…” #JaahnaviKandula #AbolishThePolice #DefundSPD https://t.co/N5HRwCYTmW
Judge: “The court finds that a reasonable jury could conclude that the … city’s failure to train its officers on the use of force during a [high-risk vehicle stop] amounts to deliberate indifference to constitutional rights” #DefundSPD #racism https://t.co/KQMu7NPK7f
“A federal judge has found evidence Seattle police stopped & detained a Black delivery driver at gunpoint because of his race, then illegally searched his trunk in a 2020 incident detailed in a civil rights lawsuit now headed for trial” #racism #DefundSPD https://t.co/KQMu7NPK7f
Derailing the defund: How SPD manipulated the media narrative around the 2020 protests | Public records requests disclosures pieced together, brings lots to light (that stinks), names names. HT to author & @RealChangeNews #DefundSPD https://t.co/eflFet2PHl
“Stephanie Anne Butts, the mother of #DamariusButts…appeared via video at the CPC meeting to express her disgust that officers would remove a tombstone meant to memorialize her loss & make it a trophy…” #DefundSPD #AbolishThePolice #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/IuSuCk6mvp
Fantastic scoop by Glen Stellmacher in @RealChangeNews today: Documents show that senior SPD leadership and former Mayor Jenny Durkan were heavily involved in shaping the local media narrative to disrupt the #DefundSPD movement
https://t.co/kvwKhBTEX9
“The most powerful federal appeals court in the western United States once again refused to let cities and towns force the homeless off of the streets unless communities provide shelter for them.” #StopTheSweeps @MayorofSeattle #DefundSPD https://t.co/WIsx56A048
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