Former Seattle Police Chief: the Media Lied About Violence in CHOP Zone

Kevin Downey Jr. : May 28, 2021
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"...The whole time, the officers and the people who were responding to that area knew it was a problem. And we had been saying, 'Look, our response times are up. We've had rapes. We had robberies. We had assaults." And I remember giving a press conference at some time along the way and holding up the reports, because every time I said something, people would say we were just making it up. I go, 'No, I have police reports of real victims that you can look at to verify these things are happening." -Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best

[PJMedia.com] Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best suggested that the media wasn't honest about the "mostly peaceful protests" in Seattle's "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" (CHOP zone), also briefly called the not-so-cool cool-sounding CHAZ, (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone). (Screengrab image)

Best, who resigned after Seattle's city council cut $3 million from the Seattle Police Dept. budget, made the following comments on Jerry Radcliffe's "Reducing Crime" podcast.

"I would read stories about the peaceful protests. I go, ‘Well, part of it was peaceful.' But I was standing 20 feet away from a hail of rocks. I was looking right at them hail down, feet from me. I was behind a telephone pole," Best said... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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