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@DivestSPD
Jun 24, 2020 • 3 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
So here's something folks may not know about. The Seattle Police Foundation bought the SPD a pony last year.

They had a naming contest among elementary students who named it Lil' Sebastian after the pony in Parks & Rec.

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#seattleprotests #DefundSPD #DivestSPD Image
Why does the SPD need a pony?

They'd rather have the city's children and their parents associate the police with the image on the left than the one on the right.

#seattleprotests #DefundSPD #DivestSPD ImageImage
It's also a fundraising tool for the foundation. They want donors to think their money is going to K9 dogs and ponies for the kids--not military-grade equipment used to violently suppress protesters

#seattleprotests #DefundSPD #DivestSPD ImageImage

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May 24
It’s poppin off at Cal Anderson
Cops are forming a line and making arrests. Some familiar faces. Larry Longley, Chris Gregorio and former council candidate Aaron Marshall wielding a 40 mm
LRAD just issued a warning to stay in the counter demo zone. About 15 bike cops are staging on the east side of the demo
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Feb 1
Police reporting has gone downhill since 2020. Too many reporters act like SPD stenographers and publicists.

Not @AshleyNerbovig. She kept the focus on misconduct. Her loss is a travesty. Here's a thread of some of her best reporting.

Venmo: venmo.com/u/Ashley-Nerbo…Image
@AshleyNerbovig Early in her time at the Stranger she broke the story of racist cop Burton Hill, who was later fired for calling his Chinese neighbor a racial slur.
thestranger.com/news/2023/09/2…
@AshleyNerbovig She wrote about how the police union has sabotaged SPD's alternative response:
thestranger.com/news/2024/03/2…
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Apr 5, 2024
SPOG doesn't want you to see this. The massive payday for SPOG's membership will break the city financially.

At 4.5 years, beat cops will be making $136,000

plus overtime
plus longevity pay
plus premiums for wearing body cams
plus 95% of healthcare premiums paid by the city
Proposed Pay Scale Monthly Yearly Start $8,662 $103,944 6 months $9,290 $111,480 18 months $9,712 $116,544 30 months $10,084 $121,008 42 months $10,591 $127,092 54 months $11,342 $136,104
This bump in the final year of the contract (2023) is described as 5% cost of living + 10% "market rate."

No other departments are paying nearly as much, Next closest is Redmond (Starting at $101,844 vs $103,944 for SPD then Kent (Starting at $96,268)

clerk.seattle.gov/~CFS/CF_322964…
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What's more, the pay scale is flatter across the board. Step 2 (6 months) for SPD is a huge bump ($9,290/$111,480)

Redmond officers don't see that much until about 4 years in.
redmond.gov/DocumentCenter…
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Jun 17, 2023
Actually, the criticism is:
1) She's a Republican who lives in DuPont who organized a rally to "take back" a city that she doesn't live in. (not even the same county/area code)
2) This event is the latest in a series of deeply cynical GOP efforts aimed at breaking off Asians from the Democratic Party. That's clearly laid out in the thread.
If she was just a person who happened to be Republican and decided to organize a vigil to honor the victim, there would be nothing to criticize about it. However, all the messaging betrays a partisan agenda while the GOP's role has been consciously concealed.
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Jun 17, 2023
This event, originally titled "March to Take Back Our City," is being organized by failed GOP candidate Susanna Keilman, a resident of DuPont, WA. Facebook post: Susanna Kei...
This seems like an opportunistic move that's part of a larger Republican strategy to woo Asian voters through a combination of grievance politics (see also that kid who didn't get accepted to Berkeley) and fear-mongering about crime and homelessness.
It's hard to overstate how deeply and transparently cynical this is. The original flyer for this thrown-together event didn't even spell Kwon's name correctly.

It shows how little they actually care about this woman whose death they're exploiting.
Read 7 tweets
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Jun 17, 2023
This event was originally promoted on the r/SeattleWA subreddit under the more cryptofascist title "Rally to Take Back Our City."

No one knows who is organizing this. It's extremely sus. MARCH TO TAKE BACK THE CITY...
The version Brandi just posted changed the title to "Unite for Safety" and deleted the inflammatory references to women being "robbed, assaulted, and raped"
reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/co…
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