Seattle Police Defend Own

[AKA_Monet]

I live in Seattle...When this happened, I wrote 3 long blogs. I get my hair done down in that area.

You have to know the area. Why are the kids crossing the street. The school requesting the SPD to stop the kids from crossing the busy non-crosswalked street with a foot over pass.

1) The kids jaywalk, crossing an ultra busy section to get to their City Metro Buses and a Convenience store to buy junk food.

2) That footbridge is made mostly out of metal. If you live in Seattle, rain occurs 10 months out of the year, making that footbridge slippery. By the time you slip and slide breaking your leg on it, you've missed your bus in busy traffic.

That's the anthropology of the situation.

What happened: 1) the Cop was well within his rights. What he did wrong was not subdue the suspect fast enough who was not the girl punched... You have less than 5 seconds to successfully subdue a suspect in these kinds of situations. He took too long. That's police techniques. Yes, I do know how to take down someone.

2) The girl hit the cop, but her punch did not land on him. She missed her target. Whereas, the cop's punch landed. *shrugs*

3) The girl has now apologize as a placation to not have Seattlites lose their minds. The police officer accepted the apology. James Kelly of the Urban League -who I know personally- negotiated that deal.

Personally, I fault the school and the higher ups of SPD for setting up this catastrophe...Basically, not giving a isht about people and only thinking about CYAing their way out of culpability.