{"id":108414,"date":"2020-12-17T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108414"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:11:21","slug":"seattle-politician-who-defunded-the-police-called-911-to-protect-her-from-a-crime-she-wants-to-legalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108414","title":{"rendered":"Seattle politician who defunded the police called 911 to protect her from a crime she wants to legalize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Councilwoman Lisa Herbold, Seattle (this smug smile is her official photo from Seattle.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all know that these far-left politicians are hypocrites. Today’s case is no different. Seattle Councilwoman Lisa Herbold (pictured), who has voted to defund the Seattle PD and\u00a0<\/em>wants to make it an affirmative defense to most misdemeanor crimes that you either are poor, mentally ill, or addicted to drugs, called the cops because someone tossed a rock through her window.<\/p>\n

My favorite part isn’t the insane levels of irony at play here, it’s the description given by the neighbor who witnessed it. Herbold must really be liked by her neighbors too, because the neighbor refused the cop’s business card to call in if he see the suspect (who they would recognize) again.<\/p>\n

A Seattle City Councilwoman called the police to her home Friday to report a crime she is effectively trying to legalize, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

Lisa Herbold phoned authorities on Friday after a man reportedly threw a rock through her living room window, My Northwest reported. The councilwoman said “she was on the west side of the living room near the kitchen when she heard a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot and dove into the kitchen for cover,” according to a redacted police report obtained by the publication.<\/p>\n

A neighbor told police that a person who is “unathletic and a bad runner” was seen leaving the area.<\/p>\n

The witness told officers that he would recognize the suspect if he saw him again, but declined an officer\u2019s business card to contact him for follow up.<\/p>\n

The irony is that under a proposal introduced by Herbold, the suspect could avoid criminal charges if caught. Under the legislation, charges against most misdemeanor suspects could be dismissed if they can show symptoms of mental illness or addiction or if they can prove the crime provided for a need to survive, a so-called “poverty defense,” the paper reported.<\/p>\n

Herbold said she would like a jury to hear a defendant’s reason for committing the crime.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s giving people an opportunity to tell their stories and giving judges and juries the opportunity to hear those stories and make a decision based on the values of our city,” Herbold told the City Council’s Public Safety Committee Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Fox News, Herbold said local news reports of her trying to legalize crimes are incorrect.<\/p>\n

“There are no crimes that I am ‘effectively pushing to make legal,'” she said.<\/p>\n

The proposal has its supporters.<\/p>\n

“In a situation where you took that sandwich because you were hungry and you were trying to meet your basic need of satisfying your hunger; we as the community will know that we should not punish that. That conduct is excused,\u2019 Khandelwal said, according to KOMO-TV.<\/p>\n

Detractors say it will only embolden criminals.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a green light for crime,” said Scott Lindsay, a former mayoral Public Safety Advisor, the news station reported. “If you are engaged in 100 different misdemeanors that are in our criminal justice system code, you are not going to be held liable. You are not going to be held accountable.”<\/p>\n

Crime in Seattle has steadily increased since this summer’s Capitol Hill Occupied Zone protests, which saw a 525% spike, according to Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan.<\/p>\n

The spike comes as the Seattle Police Department is seeing an exodus of officers and a shortage of funding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Herbold should have called a social worker.<\/p>\n

Source; Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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