SPOG President Repeatedly Says It "Might" Be Time for Trump to Send Feds to Seattle
On Monday afternoon Seattle Police Officers Guild president Mike Solan, who rose to power among rank-and-file SPD officers partly by glorifying brutal crackdowns on protesters, appeared on right-wing radio to praise the Trump administration's violent crackdown on police brutality protesters in Portland.
Solan twice characterized federal arrests in Portland as a "success," and three times said some version of "perhaps it's the time we bring in the federal government" to reinforce police here in Seattle. Solan juxtaposed his qualified argument for federal intervention with alarmist descriptions of protesters as "domestic terrorists" and "committed criminals who are bent on doing property destruction, hurting people, and possibly killing people" while perpetuating an "insanity that's plaguing our entire city." He also called for "somebody" to "take charge."
The federal response Solan praised has included anonymous police officers in military fatigues snatching protesters off the streets in unmarked vehicles; daily deployments of tear gas, blast balls, and "less-lethal" munitions that in one case left a protester with a fractured skull; baton beatings and bullrushes; and attacks on the press, including one report of a federal officer punching a New York Times journalist in the head.
This is the sort of firepower Solan wants to rain down on some protesters who on Sunday smashed the windows of two courts, three police stations, a couple Starbucks cafes and AmazonGo stores, and a Walgreens.
Read more: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/07/21/44132674/spog-president-repeatedly-says-it-might-be-time-for-trump-to-send-feds-to-seattle
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