I just read the article in the Atlantic on the "new anarchy" (link below) Often I wonder how ppl can compare the left's "extreme" actions (property crime, self-defense) with the right's extreme actions (bombings, murders, mass shootings, J6) -but this piece makes that case 1/8 The uncritical repetition of police PR dept lies are lazily presented as fact. Ex: protesters had slingshots filled with "marbles & urine,"/the execution of Michael Rhienoehl as "self-defense," in order to pretend that right and left share equal blame for political violence 2/8

Public defense 🧵
i went into public defense thinking I was a lifer. All I wanted was to be the best lawyer money couldn’t buy. I wanted to serve ppl who could never afford to pay me. I was one of those people most of my life and I understood the need. When I told my favorite law prof @deanspade what I wanted to do he looked vaguely bummed. When I asked why he said “public defense takes all the most radical lawyers and keeps them working too much to do any organizing” I thought pffft WELL NOT ME. Lol

Getting tired of the over simplified “well move out of the city” for cheaper housing refrains. Moving out of the city costs $$. I never had a car before because owning/insuring/driving/maintaining is expensive. In law school I lived close to school because full time childcare was more then my rent and my husband and I needed to be able to hand off the baby.

-20 years ago, working as a server, I lived in a corner 1 bdrm apt downtown with amazing water views for $700/month.
-A similar apt now $3,600/month, more than 5x as much.
-As a lawyer at age 47 I am unable to afford living in the apartment I did at age 27 while waiting tables There are other differences of course.
I now how a small family (& we couldn't fit in a one bedroom anyway.)
I mostly practice public interest law which is not the best paying.
I also have six figures in student loans, but back then I had no debt at all.

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Less than a week after Uvalde, a school in Sand Point called 911 to report an intruder chasing and grabbing kids. An officer showed up but sat in his car during the emergency.
SPD claimed the principal was to blame for their non response, and local media repeated their lies.

https://twitter.com/KIRO7Seattle/status/1533995936933990400

This story should have set of the bullshit meter. They police already had probable cause and they can assist in emergences. Emergencies are WHY people feel we need cops, but as we have seen elsewhere, they have no duty to act, and they don't.

https://twitter.com/EFollender/status/1534030095240728576?s=20&t=MU-v2tqo24zZOgQ_EZVbLA

I am still reeling from the news that SPD officers clock in then refuse to answer any 911 calls while they go eat breakfast. Greatest hits from the OPA report:
page 2- "these types of low-level calls often rectified themselves before police attend" and
page 3 - "sometimes an officers delayed response can be a form of de-escalation"

A bunch of retired Judge's have endorsed my opponent who thinks Seattle's problems are due to "under-prosecution." They reference her "experience" as the reason for their endorsement but - what experience? 🧵 I have been the attorney of record on over 600 cases.
My opponent? 6