When I was discussing the mayor’s race last year, I said that the thing that most worried me about a second McGinn term was his foot dragging on police reform in his first term. Since Ed Murray has come to office, he has been worse than foot dragging.
When Murray demoted Jim Pugel, that was a worry. When the new interim chief overturned officer discipline, that was trouble. Now Pugel is out, and it’s one more nail in the coffin.
Nobody knows, of course, if this is a direct payback for the union endorsing Murray or if the Mayor’s Office actually believes this is the best way to police the city. Either way, it doesn’t bode well for people having interactions with the police.
Just be very polite when a cop writes you a jaywalking ticket or you may get shot. Also, put down that video camera. And if you’re a reporter, move along, there’s no story here. Welcome to the Police State of Seattle. Thanks for nothing, Mayor Ed.
My instinct is that SPOG owns Murray. But let’s look for patterns. What’s been going on with high-speed internet access? My understanding is that Gigabit just wasn’t working, so it was a no-brainer for Murray to cancel that deal. But has he done anything that suggests he’s also paying back Comcast for its help?
So far, the only thing I can conclude is that Mayor Murray is a police accountability regressive. Lots of chatter about who he took money from (SPOG) and might be paying back. So far there’s a lot of smoke. Another few months, and we may know if there’s fire. So far, not encouraging.
Disgusting. Simply disgusting. Can a city fire its police department?
Ed Murray is a preening peacock of incompetence and intellectual incuriousity
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I think what you mean to say is he has no honor.
@6 Actually, he was more specific than that.
Less Efrafa. More Qo’noS.
@7 Less Efrafa. More Qo’noS.