Seattle City Council 6/15/2020

In-person attendance is currently prohibited per the Washington Governor's Proclamation No. 20-28.4 until June 17, 2020. Meeting participation is limited to access by telephone conference line and Seattle Channel online.

Agenda: Public Comment; Payment of Bills; CB 119799: relating to gig workers in Seattle; CB 119804: relating to the Seattle Police Department prohibiting the use of chokehold; CB 119805: relating to the Seattle Police Department, banning the ownership, purchase, rent, storage, or use of crowd control weapons; CB 119803: relating to the covering of badges of certain uniformed peace officers.
Advance to a specific part
Public Comment - 1:49
Payment of Bills - 1:17:26
CB 119799: relating to gig workers in Seattle - 1:18:35
CB 119804: relating to the Seattle Police Department prohibiting the use of chokehold - 1:44:55
CB 119805: relating to the Seattle Police Department, banning the ownership, purchase, rent, storage, or use of crowd control weapons - 1:58:15
CB 119803: relating to the covering of badges of certain uniformed peace officers - 2:57:37
Other Business - 3:04:38

[Frank-rzvt]

Is there something wrong with the water in Seattle? Seattle voters, are you hearing this??

[Chrish_k]

Are you guy ashamed or even embarrassed yet?

[williamcunningham]

The CHOP security/police who are agents of the Mayor and City Council just slaughtered a 14 and 16 year old for driving through a barricade! Judge.Jury . and Executioner! So much for BLM they lit that truck up!

[rotwiler]

If protests were peaceful there would be no need for using tear gas. I can see banning choke holds. Once businesses start getting vandalized, objects thrown at police, looting, etc tear gas is appropriate. Seattle police can't stop attacks with no tools. Would recommend Seattle police find jobs somewhere else, let Seattle figure out what to do once that happens. You council people get out there on the streets and stop violent protestors, may day destruction etc without crowd control devices.

[gurnblanstein]

No wonder it's so screwed up here in Seattle, six women and three gay men on the council...

[ryankelley]

What are you guys doing about the guns being passed out to minors in CHAZ by Raz? Or are you ignoring that too?

[hillerm]

They should send city council members to respond to 911 calls.

[michaelhensley]

Johnny, this pile is the fort wall, that tree will be our castle. Freddy you guard the wall from the invaders. If you see my mom coming we'll run.

[patriley]

I once lived in a similarly liberal place in California. The City Council members were at best extremely liberal and at worst wacko. The policies they came up with were very crazy. I lived there for many years and saw the same type of behavior through many councils. As time went on, the craziness grew worse. This craziness in Seattle will never go away because the residents who voted for these councilmembers are themselves so far left that they truly believe these policies are good. The only way to control criminal behavior is force. Try calling a counselor instead of a cop when someone invades your home or steals your car. This bullshit thats going on in many parts of the country, especially big liberal cities will only end when solid, law-abiding citizens react as a group to take back the streets.

[eventhorizon]

If you are not born in this country should NOT be able to hold public office.

[raconteurhermit]

Parents of Kshama(Hindi word meaning ask for Forgiveness) Sawant named her aptly foreseeing that she will have to ask forgiveness for her acts
, but alas her deeds supporting atrocity by Islamist in Muslim country like Pakistan are not forgivable

[mq]

Need to turn up Kshama Sawants mic, we cant hear her. Since so many of the public comments are repeating the SAME THINGS May I suggest an ONLINE VOTE Y or NO to maybe get a general consensus and then everybody feels they had their position heard. If we have over 100 people wanting to make similar comments we cant get to even half of them in 1 minute a piece. Either make a list of each item on the agenda and put it up as a list and have a Yes, no, or other option to vote. That way everyone can be heard and dont have to call in and waste so much time. Another option would be a Live Chat option as well. I know I dont want to sit through this whole thing hearing the same things repeated over and over...