The police chief of Seattle, Carmen Best, is resigning as the city council voted to “defund the police department,” which is cutting jobs for many people of color, as she points out. As the Seattle police departments shrinks, the Antifa John Brown Gun Club is stepping up its presence to defend the city. This is a disaster waiting to happen, but Carmen says she just can’t do her job properly any more. This isn’t the only city seeing a decline. What happened to this once beautiful city?
She is resigning for some reasons we're going to jump into.
But first, I just want you to hear the sincerity of what happens when a city falls apart.
And we're going to kind of go in reverse order here, explaining how this all happened and what's on the future horizon for the place that is the origin of Chaz and Chop.
So let's listen to this.
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For me personally, this was a decision I wrestled with, but it was time.
I will always be a police officer.
It's who I am.
But ultimately, as I learned from a former boss, when you know it's time to go, you know it's time to go.
After serving this department and this community for almost three decades, I can honestly say I have no regrets.
There are things I will change, yes, but being a Seattle police officer and having the opportunity to be the police chief, it was a dream of a lifetime.
I love this department.
I love this city.
And I will always love being a Seattle Police Department officer.
To the men and the women of the Seattle Police Department, sworn and civilian, you will always have my respect.
You will always be in my heart.
You are, without a doubt, the best police department in the country.
But I just want to say that I am, I'm sad to leave in some ways, but you know, when it's time, it's time.
A great young man, tall, stout, wonderful African-American man.
And he is one of the people that will probably not keep a job here.
Okay, so the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle over police violence at protests.
This is true story.
So the ACLU filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and Mayor Jenny Durkin violated the constitutional rights of protesters by allowing officers to disperse crowds with tear gas, flashbangs, and more.
Tensions were high over the weekend after Mayor Durkin issued a 30-day pause on the use of tear gas and police reauthorized its use on Sunday night to disperse crowds on Capitol Hill.
So within, I mean, when is this article dated?
It's June 9th.
So the city council in some of these big Pacific Northwest cities are actually limiting police power.
They're calling the use of tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets as a human rights issue and a violation of, I guess, of their constitutional rights.
Well, my general sentiment towards the protest, protesting, as they like to call it, that's going on is this is not protesting.
This is just full-blown destruction and rioting.
So insofar as whatever you just read to me is insane, it's just ludicrous that people would say that police don't have the authority and the they shouldn't be using tear gas and things like that.
And these are obviously like non-lethal methods of moving people on.
Look, it'd be different if these people were standing around in a group holding signs that say, you know, like blah, blah, blah, resign or whatever they wanted.
That would be totally different if they were doing it peacefully, but that's not what they're doing.
They're going out.
They're hurting people.
They're starting chaos.
They're destroying things.
They're rioting.
They're looting.
Like, are you kidding me?
And you're going to sit here and tell me that police can't use other measures to disperse these people?
And I'm going to explain, I'm going to explain to you a little more about what happened, but I want to bring this up that people don't realize is that while there's this pressure to defund the police, which is ultimately so sad to see a black woman removed from her position, that's why Blaze TV can't fire me, actually, because they wouldn't want to have a civil rights lawsuit.
Did you hear about the story about the KKK president in Virginia?
Yeah, no, I actually watched your video about it this morning, how he ran into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters, and then the hate crime charges were dropped because they're all white.
Dude, that is peak.
That is peak 2020.
I don't even have a better example of 2020 besides that.
What's really interesting about protests around the country, which you're going to find different in a place like Seattle, despite often being known as a very liberal place, has some interesting gun laws.
So these are security forces, I imagine right here, some sort of a first line of defense against what they would believe to be an armed militia called the 3%.
Are you guys affiliated with the group or are you just coming to keep peace?
Actually, somebody asked me, like, is this a family program?
It is not a family program.
Anyway, so that's the John Brown Gun Club.
The John Brown Gun Club actually is the official law enforcement of Antifa.
And they are prevalent in Seattle and Portland.
During the Chaz and Chop Commune, which you can find links in the description, where they literally took over several city blocks and the city allowed them to do it, which is one of the main instigating factors that ended up causing Mayor Carmen, I mean, the Chief Carmen Best to resign.
John Brown Gun Club actually was the law enforcement.
So as they're protesting the police, remember, they're not protesting law enforcement.
They're protesting the established elected police of the Democrat Republic that or Democratic Republic that we all know and love.
And instead, they want to put their brown shirt gun-wielding brigade in charge.
And they're very grateful for them, which shows that they're not against, they're not against people making arrests and putting people in jail.
They just don't want anybody that's not their own people.
So, I mean, like, the thing that always makes me laugh about, you know, Antifa and the like is that they're over here, like, guns are bad.
Law enforcement is bad because that is their thing.
They, they actually don't want any sort of, you know, government-run law enforcement, which I don't know how you feel about that.
Sometimes it makes me a bit nervous to think about, but, you know, they want to sort of just band all of these things that keep society, you know, safe, for lack of a better term.
And then they're over here with their own psycho-militia who are completely unfiltered.
They do whatever they feel like, as we've seen, you know, just based on what's going on around the country.
And you want to tell me that somehow these guys are going to keep you safer than the police department that actually have rules and regulations about what they can and can't do?
Are we, are we, are we all very, like, what is happening?
I'm sorry, like, am I living on a different planet right now?
I think this is from what, local news, the Seattle Times.
The chief, second reason is not just that the city was against her, but a federal judge barred Seattle police from using tear gas and force against nonviolent protesters.
A federal judge in Seattle has found evidence that the Seattle Police Department used excessive force and violated the free speech rights of thousands of demonstrators.
I love how they use the word demonstrators when they're rioters and has issued a temporary restraining order preventing officers from using pepper spray tear gas foam tipped projectiles or any other force against peaceful protesters.
An issuing order, U.S. District Judge Richard Jones concluded based on video and other evidence that on some occasions the SPD has in fact used less lethal.
See?
Less lethal, not non-lethal, less lethal, less than lethal.
I've seen two weapons disproportionately and without provocation.
I just, it's just so, again, it's so weird because you have these people who are running around with the intent of causing harm, not just to people, but to property and, you know, like police officers and things like that.
But it's really strange to me how, again, if these people are standing around like you and you and I have gone to protests that are quote unquote right wing and we all stand around and we hold our placards and we chant and we talk about whatever the idea is that we're protesting or whatever.
And we do this legitimately peacefully.
So the cops don't ever have to intervene or do anything because we're not out here trying to hurt people.
That is not what these people are doing.
It is not demonstrating.
They are rioting and looting.
And people always forget part of the reason why the police use these non-lethal, they are non-lethal.
Part of the reason why people use these non-lethal police use these non-lethal.
I can't even speak English today, Alejand.
What's happening to my brain?
Use these non-lethal weapons is because the police are being targeted.
It's not because the police are like, you know what's fun? Firing things at protesters.
No, it's because the protesters are deliberately trying to incite violence against the cops.
Someone they're just supposed to stand there and not defend themselves.
And like, I think you mentioned earlier the point, and I want to get into this a little more, that you were saying, oh, well, if we, you know, if we get rid of the police, which they're trying to do in Seattle, well, someone's going to step up and fill the power vacuum.
And this is the John Brown gun club.
But even another federal judge realized and backed that point up, because after the ban happened, there's this article from local news too that says a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking an ordinance that would ban the use of tear gas.
The decision comes after a hearing held at 8 p.m. Friday with the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to shop the ban on tear gas, arguing it likely violates the consent decree the Seattle Police Department is under.
So what happened is the chief of Seattle, Carmen Best, ended up issuing a letter to the people in Seattle right before a large protest was planned saying the Seattle Police Department isn't going to come out and help your businesses.
We're not going to protect you.
You're on your own because now we can't guarantee the safety of our officers.
And as much as you like to think these are evil people, these are just human beings that have a life and a background and a family, et cetera.
And if we can't use these crowd control, non-lethal, again, non-lethal measures, then we're going to be in a situation where these officers are possibly going to lose either limbs, their health, or even their life.
And so we just are not going to do our job.
So then the judge goes, dude, they started seeing all these militias pop up.
Exactly, left and right wing going, well, we're basically in a battle it out on the streets in Seattle.
And the judge goes, you know what's more dangerous than the police using tear gas?
The police not being present.
So he overturned the order and then the police were given back their right to protect themselves and to disperse crowds.
And I want to add this.
These are not peaceful protesters.
These are violent, vandalistic rioters that we saw videos of right before introing into this.
And these police are some of the most professional people in the world and they feel like they're getting their hands tied.
And what happened now is that the city council just said, Carmen Best, we're going to cut the department anyway.
We're going to cut your salary, by the way, cutting the salary of the first black woman police chief, which then essentially means that her predecessor was white, by the way.
So we're going to pay black people less than white people.
Well, I mean, like, if you think about it too, it's because she's basically getting out of the kitchen before it, you know, goes up in flame.
I mean, I guess it's already kind of gone up in flame, probably literally too.
But I don't even know.
I don't even know what to make of her decision to do all of this too.
But as you were talking, and this is a complete side note, so forgive me for taking this on a different path.
But speaking of police, just to be clear, I mean, police brutality across the board when we're talking about, you know, police hurting people for no good reason is obviously not okay.
I mean, and you and I would both say that.
We would both support that.
Using pepper spray and tear gas and those sort of things to disperse people who are being violent, you know, totally different story.
But as you're talking, I'm thinking about right now in Australia, police are acting like psycho stormtroopers, particularly in Victoria, where people are being actually hurt for not wearing masks and yada yada.
And regardless of what you think about masks and regardless of what you think about people not wearing them, the police are acting so psycho and so brutal in the sense that, you know, there was a video that went viral of a woman being choked by a cop.
And we don't know what happened before that, so I'm not even going to comment.
But from that alone, I thought this is not okay.
That's a civilization and a society and a group of people who are unarmed and the police are acting like that.
That is what police brutality, in a sense, looks like.
And obviously, like I said, we don't know the context, but taking that at face value, that is police brutality.
These guys are doing and what these protesters are doing to incite police, they're reacting in a way that makes sense to me to disperse these people.
And then for this poor woman to have to basically step down because she's got her hands tied and her police force is basically like we can't do what we're supposed to what we're here to do, what we're trained to do, our purpose to keep society functioning and safe and to stop people doing crappy, awful things.
It just makes me sad.
It makes me sad for Seattle.
It makes me, you know, actually, we should just build a big wall around it, fill it with water, be done with it.
We start the reason why the far right, you know, fascists and the far right.
But since the Trump administration started, they're very similar.
Like, far right is starting to move into fascist movements.
And that's been what we've been trying to prevent.
And the far right, like these guys that come and they're like, fascism doesn't exist.
Nazis aren't real.
There's not Nazis here.
There's probably a handful of Nazis over there right now or white nationalists and they'll deny it up and down and protect them and become friends, befriend them and be radical.
I think that people like to conflate the ideas of Nazism with just racism because that's basically the basis for some of the ideas that the Nazi party put forward, i.e., hating Jews, hating blacks, yada yada.
You know, we want the Aryan race.
But I don't think that that's a specific idea that's specific to Nazis.
I think this is a broader sentiment that a lot of people have that's not just specific to white people, but is also specific to other cultures and races around the world.
It's really weird how they pin all the racism on the white population.
Yeah, well, they also don't understand what they're fighting.
They don't even get what it is.
They're trying to defund the police.
They want to put in their own police department.
They're fighting fascists and Nazis.
They think police are fascists and Nazis, but the police chief is a black woman, which would be a really, it would really have made Hitler very disappointed to realize that white nationalists are electing black people to lead their brigades.
It's not exactly the Nazi ideology that I've learned.
The other thing, too, is when they chuck out the term fascism, I always find it really funny when you say, so what exactly is a fascist or what's fascism?
And you watch them go, because, you know, words don't compute when you're on this level of stupid.
And they also don't realize, too, that Hitler didn't even really coin fascism.
That's not really even his thing.
It was around, you know, during Mussolini's time.
He sort of made fascism a whole thing.
It's just, I don't know.
I don't know how they can actually exist on a planet making these points about society and having no comprehension of how they even got to this point.
Well, and the reason why I say Seattle is effed is because, like, I got a call today from George Ventura from Daily Caller, like, hey, do you have somebody in Seattle I can stay with?
Because a bunch of people are closing down their shops in downtown Seattle.
They're just done because it's not safe and they can't even manage anymore.
And I want to go interview and talk to them.
I mean, Seattle is literally falling apart, but it's not just Seattle.
And I want to end with this clip.
You can really hear how police chiefs, another black police chief, by the way, in Chicago, really feel about how hard it is for them to do their jobs.
And the final point of why I believe the chief resigned and a lot of chiefs will resign is because of the Soros-funded DAs, district attorneys that are dropping the charges on writers, including in Portland.
They have a new DA as well.
That even if the police make the arrests on felony criminal charges, people don't get prosecuted or charged.
They get let go.
Listen to the frustration of this Chicago police chief as he talks about really genuinely how they have their hands tied and can't do their jobs.
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I made this point in my comments.
These looters act as if there are no consequences of their behavior.
And they based it on what happened previously, that we made a lot of arrests during May and June.
And not many of those cases were prosecuted to the fullest extent.
And I think that's my point and the mayor's point.
We have to have consequences for the arrests that Chicago police officers make through great threat to their own safety.
They're being shot at to make these arrests.
And these looters, these thieves, these criminals are emboldened by no consequences in the criminal system.
They get released.
Many charges get dropped.
And so they feel emboldened to do it more, do it more.
That is not a consequence of the officers not making the arrest.
The officers are making the arrests.
The consequences are once prosecution and sentencing comes up, there's no consequence.
So we would argue that let's have the criminal justice system here deliver a strong message to these criminals that there will be consequences for your behavior.
I just feel sad for, I just really feel sad for the cops.
I do, because they probably see this nonsense going down on the rig and they think, oh, good, these imbeciles have finally been arrested.
And again, these are not people who are just protesting.
These are people that are actually rioting and causing damage.
And there should be consequences for their actions.
I can't even imagine the exasperation of police at this point thinking, what is the point of me getting shot at and me getting hurt and me being bullied by this group of people if nothing actually materializes from it.
And this is what you get, fam, when you have a democratic run city where they don't value actually enforcing the laws.
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Because this is why these cities and states are so lawless.
I can say that coming from DC, which is super, super, super left-wing.
This is why they're awful because the police can't actually do their jobs.
And I'm not here saying that you should have an authoritarian police force.
That's not it.
But you have to have consequences for people's actions.
Otherwise, it's like he just said.
They keep doing the same thing over and over and over again because they become emboldened and they think that there's never actually going to be any consequences because there aren't.
It's just, it's honestly, it's gross.
And everyday citizens should really take stock of this because it means that your police forces, while they are working hard, it's not actually the fault of the police force.
It's the fault of these attorneys and these prosecutors and things who don't, they're not on your side.
They don't care about you as a citizen, as a law-abiding citizen.
Yeah, and I couldn't have said it better myself, guys.
You know, Seattle is not the only city that's currently seeing decline.
Let me know in the comments below if you know of any other cities or it's your city that you feel like is letting you down and letting the people down in exchange for the support of extremists.
Remember, extreme behavior and political acumen can be absolutely tolerated in any city if you have the right politics.
If you are a Nazi, they will deny you.
But if you're a communist, which is actually much worse, they will not only accept you, they will praise you and elect you to city council.
I know it's absolutely a crazy thing.
But anyway, guys, thank you guys so much again for watching.