Defund CM Lisa Herbold smears Seattle cops cleared of wrongdoing, wants more investigation
Council member Lisa Herbold. (Screen capture)
Although a civilian-led investigation has been resolved, a member of the Seattle Anti-Police Council is dissatisfied. City councilor Lisa Herbold wants to punish civil servants for attending a political rally with which she does not agree. Worse still, she curses police officers as extremists.
Herbold spent the last year pushing for the Seattle Police Department to be compensated and white officers fired for being the wrong skin color. She even wanted to effectively legalize most of the crimes committed by people claiming to be homeless or low income.
Now Herbold wants to do more after the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) found four officers who attended the January 6 rally for President Donald Trump were acquitted.
Herbold wants another witch hunt
The OPA opened a proactive, partisan investigation into six officials who attended the DC political rally. There was no evidence of anyone breaking the law, but the OPA pushed ahead with a six-month investigation.
The officers were effectively forced to prove their own innocence and were denied due process. Under threat of resignation, officials were ordered to hand over personal documents such as text messages, photos and receipts to the city to prove they had nothing to do with the Capitol riots.
Not a single officer has been charged with a crime. Nonetheless, as I predicted, OPA found that two of the lawlessness officials were close enough that they should have known what was going on. OPA, not a law enforcement agency, also concluded that they had trespassed. The two were offered termination recommendations despite not having full access to the evidence used against them.
That is not enough for Herbold.
“I told Director Myerberg that I think the investigation should go beyond what measures SPD employees took in DC on January 12, and whether SPD employees traveled to DC with knowledge of how it was done many have done. “That there would be an attempted insurrection,” Herbold said in a statement.
Given this artificial concern, Herbold seems to want more rights to be abused.
She appears to want a criminal investigation into officials for only attending the January 6 rally. She says she is checking “whether questions have been asked of the four officials with no sustained results and whether evidence has been sought to determine whether they knew in advance of the planned violent events of the Jan. 6 Capitol Rising.”
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Herbold thinks police officers are extremists
Herbold has no reason to believe that the acquitted officials knew of planned violent events in the Capitol. But it will imply that they were prematurely deleted anyway.
“If officials knowingly travel [sic] To a place to support people they knew wanted to initiate a riot, even if they participated as a passive observer, which is “a clear link between behavior and duties or … responsibilities” and is a crime worthy of notice. I will review the OPA investigation to see if any questions were asked of the four officials with no sustained results and if evidence was sought to determine if they knew in advance of the planned violent events of the January 6th Capitol Rising. ”
Herbold couldn’t bother to read the investigation documents before issuing a statement. She saw four police officers were acquitted and was fired.
The Councilor’s position is shaped by a bias that regards all police officers as extremists. Using a left wing group that suggests that extremist groups have strong links with police departments, Herbold suggests that these police officers may be extremists. What a disgusting and calculated smear. But if you’re vicious to the police, it’s not shocking.
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Perhaps Herbold should be the one being investigated.
Despite seeing the violence against police outside the East Precinct following the murder of George Floyd, which Herbold pretended to be interested in, the radical councilor showed up at a violent rally.
Police officers were attacked and threatened with murder. But Herbold didn’t care. She supported the future insurgents who took up arms to capture an autonomous zone known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). She was a founding mother of the Capitol Hill uprising.
Shouldn’t she face an investigation using the logic Herbold introduces in her criticism of acquitted police officers? We all knew the police were attacked before they left the Ostrevier. Herbold was at the rally at which there were violent acts and was threatened. Did she know about the plan to commit violence? Shouldn’t she have? Even if she participated as a passive observer, should she be held accountable?
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What this is really about
Herbold only publishes statements when she can attack police officers while they are silent, as they are exposed to attempted murder due to an anti-police environment that she helped create. She will work with police officers if she falls victim to a crime, while also making them the victims of political slander and future layoffs and defunders.
No matter what the results of the OPA’s investigation showed, Herbold was ready to act. If all six had committed crimes, Herbold would have painted this to attack all police officers. And if a cop was found innocent, she would ask if the investigation had done its due diligence.
Herbold doesn’t like the police. And she uses it to stand before a radical base of Seattle voters that it needs to stay in power.
And the goal is simple. The West Seattle radical wants to drive as many police officers as possible from the SPD. She doesn’t care if she tramples on rights or makes Seattle more dangerous.
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