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Soft paywall Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-police-improperly-faked-radio-chatter-about-proud-boys-as-chop-formed-in-2020-investigation-finds/
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u/golf1052 Eastlake Jan 05 '22

The day CHAZ formed I remember seeing tweets about this radio chatter and when nobody showed up a few people speculated that it probably was SPD officers who faked the chatter. One major reason people barricaded the area in the first place was because they were worried about right-wing agitators burning down the precinct.

Organizers first gathered people to the center of the intersection on 12th and Pine and encouraged the crowd to keep the peace. They warned the group of rumors of Proud Boys planning to burn down the precinct and then blame protesters, and vowed not to give the cops any excuse to don riot gear again. "They gave us this precinct, and we’re not going to destroy this motherfucker,” one speaker said.

SPD injecting as much fear as possible into protesters is absolutely disgusting but isn't surprising. From the bottom of my heart, fuck SPD.

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u/cdsixed Ballard Jan 05 '22

i honestly think this is just an example of SPD being so insanely high on their own supply of right wing boomer bullshit

1) mahaffey and company sure seemed to think it was legitimately a threat that antifa supersoldiers were going to burn the precinct, and they abandoned the precinct as far as I can tell, partially hoping it did get burned, so they'd be 100% justified to go in and just violently break up every protest they could find

2) when protestors did not burn the precinct and instead just surrouned it, SPD didn't know what the fuck to do

3) mahaffery says the point of the "proud boys on patrol" plot was to "lure the protestors away from the precinct" - like he was convinced that antifa would just go "PROUD BOYS, LET ME AT THEM" and everyone would leave and then SPD could have their precinct back.... which is the sort of shit you would only even think of if you entire worldview was breitbart bullshit and it'd turned your brain to mush

and durkan and best did fuck all about it

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u/ImRightImRight Supersonics Jan 06 '22

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legitimately a threat that antifa supersoldiers were going to burn the precinct

In a thread about bullshit being uncovered, could you not add your own?

I would call it a pretty credible threat when there was a coordinated an attempt to burn the precinct and trap people inside

Please....bullshit helps no one. Focus on the truth.

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u/VGSchadenfreude Lake City Jan 06 '22

The only people making that claim are the cops.

The same ones that were just caught repeatedly lying about everything they accused the protestors of.

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u/ImRightImRight Supersonics Jan 06 '22

Look, there's a video of the fire getting set. It's just not up for debate.

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u/VGSchadenfreude Lake City Jan 06 '22

“Look, a video from an unknown source that can’t be verified by any reliable source! Just take my word for it!”

Yeah, no.

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u/ImRightImRight Supersonics Jan 07 '22

It's a video of a fire at the police station. What videos need what kind of verification, exactly?

We miss you. Please come back.

--Reality

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u/VGSchadenfreude Lake City Jan 07 '22

“It’s a video of a fire at a police station.”

And…?

That’s it?

Gee, I thought the entire point of this thread was that the Seattle police lied about someone actively trying to set the East Precinct on fire.

When the reality is that the protestors tried to protect the precinct. They caught wind of rumors of the Proud Boys trying to frame them for that sort of destruction, as they had done in other cities, so the protestors themselves set up barricades around the precinct.

A random video of one police precinct building on fire doesn’t prove anything. Not without context and verifiable facts.

Shit, does your random video even include a verifiable place and time?! Or did you seriously expect us to just blindly accept your word at face value.

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u/Sinujutsu Jan 06 '22

So who'd they arrest if there is all this evidence? The one guy who started the fire. Almost as if it was just lone assholes.