A Seattle police officer appeared to announce his dismissal from the department due to ongoing protests by Black Lives Matter in a viral video, telling an activist ‘I’m leaving, you guys’.
While the circumstances surrounding the video remain unclear, the officer, who is not mentioned in the clip, is seen in the patrol car standing next to a protester, turning his window down and appears sarcastically asking, ‘how are you? day today bud? ‘
If the activist ‘does not really react because you are there,’ the officer says he has some good news for him.
‘I’m sorry. But you just do not worry, ‘because think what?’ he says. ‘I’m leaving. You wounds. I have a two month old baby and I am out. ‘
The person filming the exchange asks him to clarify that he will resign, to which the officer responds ‘I’m f *** ing away bro.’
While the circumstances surrounding the video remain unclear, the officer, who is not mentioned in the clip, is seen in the patrol car standing next to a protester, turning his window down and appears sarcastically asking, ‘how are you? day today bud? ‘
The two men exchange false pleasures. When asked how he feels when he steps down, the officer says, ‘I feel great. I have been expelled from this department. You wounds. ‘
The officer is asked if he quits because of police brutality, which the officer says he is not, but he pulls in his badge because he tried to get in touch with protesters from Black Lives Matter.
Their dialogue is currently interrupted when the officer is caught up in a heated exchange with another protester who is out of frame.
Specifically what caused the verbal confusion is unclear, but the officer blows his horn and hurries forward in his car, before coming to an abrupt stop and leaning out his door, pointing a finger at that activist who remains off-camera .
While the officer’s attention is being turned elsewhere, the man filming the video calls out to others that ‘this man is retiring because of Black Lives Matter. ‘
The officers then return to his car and talk to the man filming again, who continues to haunt the officer.
‘You provoked boy? You have trigger, ‘the man asks the cop. ‘Oink, oink. F *** you and your blue life. ‘
In the middle of the man, the officer adds one of his own and tells the man that he can not wait to finally become friends with him, once he shuts down Seattle PD.
“We will never be friends,” the protester angrily insists. ‘We will never see eye to eye. It does not matter to me if you take off that badge, you will never be one of my people. ‘
Their dialogue is momentarily interrupted when the officer is caught in a heated exchange with another protester who is out of frame
In the middle of the man, the officer adds one of his own who tells the man he can not wait to finally become friends with him, once he shuts down Seattle PD
The nature of how the officer and the activist knew each other is not addressed in the clip, although a hostility between them is evident.
The Seattle Police Department has not yet returned a request from DailyMail.com for comment on the clip.
Riots have been raging in the city, with protests, vandalism and clashes with police occurring in the city every day since the Memorial Day police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The undated video comes just days after Seattle’s first black police officer, Carmen Best, announced she would leave after the city council approved the department’s deportation and cut 100 police officers from power.
In a statement shared Monday night on social media, Best wrote that she would officially resign from her post on September 2nd.
“This was a difficult decision for me, but when it’s time, it’s time,” Best wrote, adding that she “is confident the department will make it through these difficult times.”
You are truly the best police department in the country, and please trust me when I say, the vast majority of the people in Seattle support and appreciate you, ‘said Best, who has been in the department for more than 28 years. served.
‘I’m under the impression of your skill, your compassion and your dedication every day. I look forward to seeing how this department progresses through the process of reassessing public safety. I love the work that will be done by all of you, ‘she added.
Mayor Jenny Durkan has appointed Deputy Chief Adrian Diaz to serve as interim police chief.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best (pictured) announced her resignation, just hours after City Council approved proposals to reduce the police department by as many as 100 officers
In a statement shared on social media on Monday night, Best wrote that she would officially resign from her post on September 2nd. “This was a difficult decision for me, but when it’s time, it’s time,” Best wrote
Earlier on Monday, only one councilor, Kshama Sawant, voted against the budget package, saying it did not do enough to defuse the police.
Seattle currently has about 1,400 police officers and the reductions fell short of the 50 percent cut to the department that protesters demanded.
Measures that cut less than $ 4 million from the $ 400 million annual budget this year would be unanimously removed from the committee this year.
The city council had also cut the roughly $ 285,000 annual salary of Best and the salaries of other top police leaders, although the final cuts to Best’s salary were significantly more modest than those approved last week.
The council plan also takes officers away from a team that is removing homeless camps.
Jason Johnson, the interim director of Seattle’s Human Services Department, said in a letter last week that the move to defuse the city’s navigation team and divert money to homeless outreach services, ‘the city’s assets will be dramatically restricted to tackling unauthorized campsites’.
“While we may not be able to do everything in this summer’s rebalancing package, we have paved the way for enormous work for us as a council and as a city,” said councilor Teresa Mosqueda.
Seattle City Council on Monday approved proposals that would reduce the police department by as many as 100 officers through dismissals and reprimands
The action was one that was supported by protesters marching in the city after the murder of George Floyd police in Minneapolis
The decision came just a day after thousands of pro-police supporters wore blue and American patriotic colors as they marched around town hall for a ‘Back the Blue’ rally
Durkan and Best had urged the council to carry out their talks on police budgets, saying the issue could be taken seriously when the 2021 city budget is considered.
They also said dismissals would be disproportionately more targeted at newer officers, often hired from Black and Brown communities, and that would inadvertently lead to lawsuits.
Jason Johnson, the interim director of Seattle’s Human Services Department, said in a letter last week that the move to defuse the city’s navigation team and divert money to homeless outreach services, ‘the city’s assets will be dramatically restricted to tackling unauthorized campsites’.
“While we may not be able to do everything in this summer’s rebalancing package, we have paved the way for enormous work for us as a council and as a city,” said councilor Teresa Mosqueda.
Durkan and Best had urged the council to carry out their talks on police budgets, saying the issue could be taken seriously when the 2021 city budget is considered.
They also said dismissals would be disproportionately more targeted at newer officers, often hired from Black and Brown communities, and that would inadvertently lead to lawsuits.
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