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Write up on the interview coming this afternoon/tomorrow morning!
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Bingle wants the commentary to be three minutes each. Wilkerson is going to allow it. I think Bingle and Cathcart are trying to stall the body out. It’s 1:47 am where I’m at (this is Erin) and I’m going to bed. Would put money on this passing really late tonight
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Cathcart moved to allow public testimony from the poor souls still in attendance. They’re debating whether to allow that. Zappone said they already heard testimony which influenced this decision. They’re going to take 2 min testimony from about ten people still there.
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Okay, at a charger and can report that after a short debate the council — some of whom asked for “after-action reports,” indicating they didn’t know what happened — approved Brown’s executive order unanimously and retroactively ended it on Thursday morning.
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CM Lili Navarrete says the “immigration process is broken.” She notes she came to the US as an undocumented immigrant and chided people in the audience where laughing: “think if this was you,” meaning if you were being separated from your family.
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He’s the first CM to say he was there at the protest.
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CM Dillon says the amendment o retroactively end the mayor’s declaration is a “formality” but says “this should never have happened.” He wants people to submit information to the police Ombuds office.
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A narrative is forming that no city council members knew what was happening during the protest.
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CM Kitty Klitzke says all people are entitled by the constitution to die process, to assemble and speak. But she said there “are reasons a crowd might need to be dispersed.”
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CM Cathcart had the same experience and was “flabbergasted.” The two CMs represent the district where the protest happened.
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He says he doesn’t think CS gas was used. He is waiting on more information. He said the city council needed to weigh in because there was no end to the mayor’s executive order.
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CM Bingle is speaking. He says he was disappointed he could chat with the congressman and sheriff but no city staff. “I do expect a full after action report.”
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One more person spoke, CP Wilkerson cut off testimony.
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While she was detained, he said, they put an app on her phone that records her location at all times and she is not able to leave it because they require her to take a selfie every 15 min.
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Chris Sheller (sp?) says he was homeless and is now a homeowner and is telling a story about a friend who was sleeping and woke to ICE agents aiming guns at her and detained her and called him.
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Jackson Dyetts (sp?) says “it’s about disrupting the rule of law” to protest against the deportations and calls the protests “mob rule.”
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He notes some of the federal agents at the protest were masked. He does not think it’s the roles of SPD to help ICE move immigrants.
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Matt Ringe(sp?) is now speaking, saying the only violence at the protest was committed by police. “The protesters were not moving back off a public space, and that appears to be the reason force was used.”
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A woman is now speaking about Democrats’ mass deportations, saying they were worse than Trump’s.
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She said police abused the protesters and is proud of her fellow protesters and that police who showed up in tactical gear with rubber bullets escalated the situation.
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Sarah Dixit, who’s running against Bingle for his council seat this fall is speaking. She maintains the protest included solidarity, sunscreen and water and no violence.
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He mentions Justice Forral’s arrest and says “can any of us be targeted?”
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Will Nevill (sp?) another army vet speaks against the resolution saying immigrant live in fear. He says the protest devolved into a violent spectacle only after ICE and police engaged with it.
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If the tech dies, we’ll update with quotes later.
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Sry for the delay, sorting tech probs. Two people have said Mayor Brown’s declaration was a betrayal and deserve condemnation. One is a military vet.
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There’s a caller saying city statements on the protest were untrue and that protesters were peaceful. She likens the immigrant arrest — which the protest was meant to address — to the beginning of the Holocaust.
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He said there was vandalism and civil disobedience but no violence, which stacks up with RANGE’s witness of the protest. He was disappointed with Council Pres Betsy Wilkerson’s statement on the protest, which supported police.
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John Witcomb (sp?) is now speaking. He says he’s a war veteran and says if he did the same things SPD did, which he says included CS gas — which Hall has denied — he would have been prosecuted for war crimes.
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Hulings, who was at the protest, says it was “chaos”
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Hulings held up a round and is opposing the resolution, which ends the emergency declaration. The protests were peaceful.
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Will Huling thanks SPD for an “excellent job” trying to quell an “explosive situation” using rubber bullets which Chief Kevin Hall initially denied using.
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The council opened comment on the protest resolution.
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Bingle is “glad we’re getting this one across the finish line.” CM Paul Dillon also supports, noting Spokane is the second city in the nation to do so. All testimony agrees. It passes unanimously.
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There are a couple other important things on the agenda we’ll weigh in on, including what the council is now discussing, the ban on crypto kiosks, where people can deposit digital money, but many contend theyre ripe for scams …
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CL Jonathan Bingle just noted that people here to comment on the protest resolution should be given notice on when to comment. It’s a specific item.
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It’s Aaron not Erin, this week because they’re at a conference so bear with me.
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@lukebaumgarten.bsky.social I’m so sorry for engaging with cool local queer artists from main while on vacation
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So this is fake news 😂
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How bout like a one really funny dick drawing a day soft limit?
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We were there for ten hours and didn’t see anything that would justify it, with the caveat that we got corralled off to the south while Lang and Forral were in the group kettled to the north so it’s possible we missed whatever it is they’re using to justify this
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We’re also waiting for that evidence…