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22 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Is it just us or is the Court Monitor much more interested in throwing money at SPD and blocking the #DefundSPD movement than ensuring accountability for police brutality? #SeattleProtests
Nearly a decade in, Seattle's federal Consent Decree is starting to feel hopelessly off the rails, with the federal oversight just another part of the institution shielding SPD from deeper accountability. #SeattleProtests #DefundSPD theurbanist.org/2020/09/14/cou…
Monitor Antonio Oftelie's questions seem to betray no awareness that this crisis could be of SPD's own making. Afterall, the police guild president sees this an all out culture war. #FascistCoup #DefundSPD theurbanist.org/2021/01/12/bes…
Slowing response times, stoking fears of crime, and cutting training programs may be part of SPD strategy to force their funding back up. It's straight out of the playbook police unions have used across the country. #SeattleProtests

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