ZitatThe Seattle City Council is facing something of a dilemma in its popular pledge of the Seattle City Council to cut the police budget by 50 percent. To do so would require firing a significant number of police officers, which is also popular. The problem is that the firing would be done by seniority and many of the less senior officers are black.
The solution according to City Council member Lisa Herbold is simple: fire officers based on their race.
While that would be the definition of racial discrimination, Herbold clearly believes that it is discrimination for a good cause. The federal courts are likely to disagree. Most notably, Herbold’s call for racial discrimination against white officers would seek to undue the work of Justice Thurgood Marshall who insisted that racial discrimination unlawful and evil regardless of the race you want to disenfranchise or discriminate against.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best released a video calling the plan of Herbold and others “completely reckless.” She also sent a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan warning that dramatic cuts would require the layoff of hundreds of officers. The Police Department also warned that the firings would include many minority officers.
Cincinnatus wrote: "Unbelievable. We have come full circle with only the color of the victims reversed. Such is the natural outcome of Leftism."
It certainly is an interesting conundrum! Now What? They have a desired outcome for their social engineering. Trouble is it's illegal to engineer like they want, to get the results that they want. Idiots!
Totalitarians who are limited by the law! Fun to watch them squirm! TM
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Seattle police chief fires back at suggestion to lay off officers ‘out of order’ By: Linzi Sheldon, KIRO 7 News Updated: July 15, 2020 - 7:32 PM
SEATTLE — As the Seattle Police Department looks at the Seattle City Council’s demands to cut the department’s budget by 50%, police Chief Carmen Best fired back at a suggestion from Councilmember Lisa Herbold to lay off officers out of order of seniority as a way to preserve the jobs of people of color.
“We cannot do layoffs based on race,” Best said. “I would love for Councilmember Herbold to work with us and not against us, making sure we have a viable number of officers.”
“It is illegal to make layoffs based on race,” Best said. “I’m not sure where she’s getting her legal advice from, but the persons who are advising us are making sure we understand it’s illegal to do that.”
Quote: PzLdr wrote in post #4I would respect the Chief more if she would resign in protest, since shooting off her mouth is doing bupkus.
She's not the resigning type. Being told to let one of her precinct HQ's to become abandoned and boarded up would have been the perfect time to resign, if such was ever going to happen.
"Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of the god within." GK Chesterton
“These High-Tech oligarchs are dangerous for democracy.” Devin Nunes
"It’s a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will." Donald Trump's Victory Speech 11/9/16
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