A Seattle city councilwoman said following nationwide protests and riots that she doesn’t understand why people are bothered by looting since black people die “every day.”
“What I don’t want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told that looting doesn’t solve anything,” Seattle Councilwoman Tammy Morales said Monday in a video call with fellow council members.
“It does make me wonder and ask the question why looting bothers people so much more than knowing that, across the country, black men and women are dying every day, and far too often at the hands of those who are sworn to protect and serve.”
This is dangerous.
Socialist Seattle Councilmember Tammy Morales defending the weekend violence, telling her comrades on the Council:
“I don’t want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told looting doesn’t solve anything.” pic.twitter.com/NVUBfYVrwS
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) June 2, 2020
Morales was joined on the call by colleagues who criticized law enforcement and President Trump.
“The very thing that everybody was protesting, excessive police force, was met by a militarized response,” Councilwoman Teresa Mosqueda said. “Yes, it was stoked by the president, and yes, it was stoked by others, but it was carried out right in our city.”
Councilwoman Kshama Sawant called the police response to looting and rioting “tragically ironic.”
“We have had hundreds if not thousands of accounts from ordinary people, community members, of unacceptable conduct from the Seattle Police Department,” Sawant said. “It is tragically ironic that we live in a society where a protest against police brutality and violence was met with police brutality and violence.”
Seattle police announced at 9:30 p.m. local time on Monday that the peaceful protesting sparked by the death of an unarmed black man while in police custody last week had turned into a riot.
Breaking: it goes bad on Capitol Hill @KIRORadio #BlackLiveMattters #seattleprotests pic.twitter.com/Q6Ma33A4rp
— Hanna Scott (@HannaKIROFM) June 2, 2020
