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I had a raw moment in this video, and I’m owning it. Watching open-air drug markets operate freely in our neighborhoods while the city just sweeps people from one block to the next—putting everyone at risk, including families and children—frustrates me deeply. I apologize for the strong language; emotions run high when our communities are on the line. What pushed me over the edge? Learning that 11 babies have already died from fentanyl overdoses in Washington state this year alone. Yet there’s little appetite in Olympia to treat fentanyl possession as the eminent danger it clearly is—to users, to bystanders, and especially to innocent children. Some seem content to let babies be in proximity to this poison. The brave dads marching on Aurora against the pimp wars have fired me up. We can’t stay silent anymore. A woman confronted me for filming during a sweep (that, predictably, accomplished nothing). I pushed back: she had no right to smoke drugs on our public sidewalk, and families with infants have no business being pushed through an open-air drug market—oblivious to the danger all around them. This isn’t compassion. This is chaos. As a society, we must speak out louder against drugs taking over our parks, sidewalks, and public spaces. Treatment and accountability aren’t optional—they’re how we protect our kids and restore our neighborhoods. We Heart Seattle will keep showing up, documenting, cleaning, and demanding better. What will it take for real change? Let’s talk solutions.