Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If Called Names During Coronavirus Crisis

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Does this include all the Trump hate spewed in this sorry blue state? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Hunchback can’t see its own hunch.

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Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If They Hear ‘Racist Name-Calling’

Don’t the authorities have better things to do with their time right now?

Robby Soave |Reason March 31, 2020:

Seattle’s top cop may want to get her priorities straightened out. In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Police Chief Carmen Best used her most recent “chief’s brief” update on the coronavirus crisis to urge residents to dial 911 if they are the victims of racist name-calling.

It’s a time-wasting imperative—and one that’s at odds with the First Amendment.

In her briefing, Best called upon the expertise of a former local news anchor, Lori Matsukawa.

“Hate crimes have no place in our community,” said Matsukawa. “We are all trying to deal with the COVID-19 public health crisis together. If you are a victim of a hate crime or hate-based harassment, please call 911.”

“We will document and investigate every reported hate crime,” Best continued. “Even racist name-calling should be reported to police. If you aren’t sure if a hate crime occurred, call 911. We are here to help.

This is unhelpful guidance that conflates two completely different things. A hate crime takes place when a person, motivated by animus, engages in criminal activity against a protected class. Importantly, the underlying action has to be criminal in nature: vandalism, assault, etc. Mere speech is not generally criminal, except in a few special cases (true threats of violence, for instance). Racist speech could be an element of a hate crime conviction, but engaging in racist speech is not itself a criminal action. In fact, hateful speech is clearly protected under the First Amendment, according to Supreme Court precedent.

Telling people to report racist name-calling to the police is thus bad advice. At best, it’s wasting police officers’ time. But it can actually lead to far worse consequences: Inviting the police to intervene in speech-based disputes between people is a recipe for disaster. Teachers, counselors, and parents, for instance, could reasonably interpret Best’s remarks as an obligation for them to call the cops on kids who use derogatory language. Over-criminalization of teenage misbehavior in schools is one result of the mindset that people—even kids—causing each other offense ought to be a matter for the police to handle.

In any case, it does not inspire confidence when Seattle’s top law enforcement authority uses her crisis platform to blur the important distinction between hate crimes and hateful speech. (Seattle PD did not respond to request for comment.)

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Child to mother: “How long is this corona thing going to last?”
Mother to child: “Shut up and eat your toilet paper.”

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
3 years ago

HEY CHIEF A BLACK PERSON CALLED ME A CRACKA WHATA GONNA DO ABOUT IT ????

Goldenrudy
Goldenrudy
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

Repeat it, to you, of course.

Spiegey
Spiegey
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

My girlfriend called me “lazy” because I was laying on the couch watching tv. Can I call the cops and have her imprisoned?

Jasonn
Jasonn
3 years ago
Reply to  Spiegey

Maybe just borrow their handcuffs for a couple of hours?

Piquerish
Piquerish
3 years ago
Reply to  Spiegey

If she is a Republican, damned straight you can.

Spiegey
Spiegey
3 years ago
Reply to  Piquerish

Glad to see your filled with hate and see everything thru politics. You have a lot of Nancy Pelosi pictures hanging on your walls??

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

Beat you with a rubber hose.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

Sounds more like they would beat you with pantyhose….that’s where they let Antifa run amok …..would never go there to see the sites or the state. Very scary place.

Codyody
Codyody
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

A black scumbag once walked by me and called me a white motherf*cker. I was going to see a client in a black neighborhood. He didn’t know me. I was wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase. He was with another guy and said it as he walked by me. I dropped my briefcase, turned around and told him to go phukk himself. He kept walking.

deplorableinwa
deplorableinwa
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

The chief is black so the answer is, nothing.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  Sgtsnuffy

Agreed. The “nanny state” run amok, no?

Piquerish
Piquerish
3 years ago

Gave you an up-vote for NOT using the vile and loathsome “run a muck” bastardization! THANX!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

A bank robber was running down the street, carrying a bag of cash. As he passed an onlooker, he yelled, “Call 911, the police are chasing me!”

Bubba Grump Is Back On Twitter
Bubba Grump Is Back On Twitter
3 years ago

ANOTHER angry black woman.
They are SOOOOO tiring…..
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Bubba Grump Is Back On Twitter
Bubba Grump Is Back On Twitter
3 years ago

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

That has me concerned too…. How far do we go on this under an emergency….

Curt
Curt
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes! We should make a LIST of Constituional freedoms deferred and follow up afterwards toi ensure they’re ALL restored – A/O !

jason robinett
jason robinett
3 years ago
Reply to  Curt

um, no. Constitutional freedoms arent things that can be given and taken. They are God given rights and the Constitution is simply to ensure the Govt continues to recognize that. We can argue whether that is still true all day, but God given rights cannot be “deferred” and “restored” and your comment means they’ve already conquered you. Lock downs and business closings and restricting assembly are all unlawful and illegal but we are all sheep now so we go where we are herded by our masters and don’t even stop to ask why.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

NO ONE CAN SUSPEND YOUR GOD GIVEN CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS!!!! Not in this country and not under any circumstance!

Bubba Grump Is Back On Twitter
Bubba Grump Is Back On Twitter
3 years ago

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Meet Deputy Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. She’s the black woman in the photo. Since when did name calling become a “crime”? If a liberal calls a conservative a name is that also a crime? I think we all know the answer to that. Seattle is a dump and is it any wonder why when you have people like this helping to run that city into the ground? REAL crime is through the roof and yet she values feelings over real crime…..She probably wants criminals released from prison too during this virus…..

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, right, talks with Deputy Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, center, and Captain Deanna Nollette, acting chief of investigations, second from left, after briefing reporters near the scene of a shooting involving several police officers in downtown Seattle, Thursday, April 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)comment image

Deebs Beekeeper
Deebs Beekeeper
3 years ago

If the line is busy, dial mommy.

tommy vise
tommy vise
3 years ago

Just how more pathetic can these ridiculous, brain dead people get?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  tommy vise

…unfortunately there is no limit…..as long as it is tolerated.

Jashobeam
Jashobeam
3 years ago

I’ve got a name for the police chief.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  Jashobeam

So do I. He is a racist sob!

chortling_hyena
chortling_hyena
3 years ago

Call her and leave a message – call her all sorts of names – disgusting ones.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

Borrow your libturd coworkers phone doing so.

ZiggyStardust
ZiggyStardust
3 years ago

What ever happened to “Sticks and Stones”???? Safe Place, Wussie, Snowflakes

199libgrunt
199libgrunt
3 years ago

This will hit the ‘teen’ community hard as all they know to call folks is ‘MoFo’.

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

So when Antifa or Black Lives Matter (more than you) insult white people for being white, and you call the police about this, doesn’t this put the police between a rock and a hard place?

deplorableinwa
deplorableinwa
3 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

No, they’re like Portland and either never respond or watch them assault you.

craigalls
craigalls
3 years ago

I live in the area. The problems with political correctness started with migration from California. Before that we were an independent state. We elected both democrat and republican governors. Now they control the legislature and governorship. This state has drastically changed over the last 40 years.

DNM
DNM
3 years ago
Reply to  craigalls

The Denver metro area is right behind you. With all the young woke people moving in from all over the country and the dumb ass liberal from California

tedlv
tedlv
3 years ago
Reply to  craigalls

When I lived in SW Washington, the town was being invaded by some very rude liberals from the Portland area. They referred to town folks as “Mill Willies”. I was glad to move to the Mid-Columbia region, where things were a bit more pleasant.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  craigalls

….and any other state they take over…..they are like a “virus” themselves.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  craigalls

Leftist hate has a way of doing that, especially to the mindless and complacent.

tall, blond, and very hot
tall, blond, and very hot
3 years ago

geez. When I read stuff like this I just think we’re doomed.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

I think please lord send the meteors.

Spiegey
Spiegey
3 years ago

This is how we lose liberty and it comes at the hand of your fellow American citizen like this Sheriff who was elected to protect the safety and security of his county residents but instead practices tyranny to remove your 1st amm right to speech at the end of the government gun.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Spiegey

Yet….she swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land…..I don’t believe there was anything in what she swore to that involves name calling. Sickos.

Pluto's Moon
Pluto's Moon
3 years ago

Antifa is just one of the reasons that I CARRY !!!

Codyody
Codyody
3 years ago

Can we give Seattle to Canada?

Jasonn
Jasonn
3 years ago

That would be the Chief Snowflake, not the Chief of PO-lice. What a Lefty Liberal Loon knucklehead.

MO Guy
MO Guy
3 years ago
Reply to  Jasonn

In Washington state and other liberal enclaves, political correctness and diversity are the overwhelming concerns, not competence or common sense.

gotwood4sale
gotwood4sale
3 years ago

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I can just imagine…

911: “911…what is your emergency?”

Me: “Help, help…someone called me a deplorable, redneck, hillbilly, help!”

911: Click.

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tedlv
tedlv
3 years ago
Reply to  gotwood4sale

I fit that description! I was raised in hilly East Tennessee, where I took care of the garden, cut firewood which heated the house exclusively except on the coldest days. I’m currently on 5 acres with a garden, two horses, and a green tractor. And I like Trump.

gotwood4sale
gotwood4sale
3 years ago
Reply to  tedlv

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Roan Mountain rocks!

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tedlv
tedlv
3 years ago
Reply to  gotwood4sale

Been there!

gotwood4sale
gotwood4sale
3 years ago
Reply to  tedlv

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Our son went to Appalachian State for a post-graduate degree and we visited him often…we loved visiting our Grandfather Mountain and doing the gorge thing on the Linville.

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tedlv
tedlv
3 years ago
Reply to  gotwood4sale

I run the Blue Ridge parkway every year. Fun trip with a Mustang.

gotwood4sale
gotwood4sale
3 years ago
Reply to  tedlv

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Especially hugging the curves of the Linn Cove viaduct!

Agreed…an absolutely stunning and beautiful drive.

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Notspam
Notspam
3 years ago

Hello 911 my husband was just shot, 911 sorry we’re busy with a sticks and stones call

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

See! This is what happens when people watch too much TV.

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Make Mods Cry
Make Mods Cry
3 years ago

hatespeech originated in communist russia first of all.. second we really need to stop this ‘protected class’ BS.. because the only people that don’t register as a protected class are white men. So it’s really a bass ackwards way of giving more rights/protections to people that aren’t white men.

Make Gulags GREAT Again!
Make Gulags GREAT Again!
3 years ago

Here in Taiwan, whose citizens are Chinese, everyone calls it the China Virus or Wuhan Virus. Someone should tell the police chief to have an officer at the airport when someone from Taiwan arrives so they can be arrested for being racists.

Forget Russia Russia Russia who is going to investigate the collusion between China, the news media and democrat party?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

….WHO and the UN….they have been lying about and for China for decades. We need to get out of both of these.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

A state full of dead people……and they want the law enforcement phones to be busy because of name calling?! What the hell are they? A school yard? Do their officers even carry guns or do they hand out teddy bears to bad people.
So happy I was not born and reared there.

Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Stupid chief don’t she know “sticks and stones can break my bones but, words can never hurt me?”
Or
“ I am rubber you are glue what you say bounces off me and sticks to you.”

Piquerish
Piquerish
3 years ago

Come and GET me, semi-evolved simian.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

Hey Chief, you should not be in LAW ENFORCEMENT, this is a Professional Position. This attitude of yours is a disgrace to all law enforcement. It’s best you find a job that fits your belief and style.
“BLUE LIVES MATTER” criminals not at all.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

Typical LibTard logic and reasoning.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago

Didn’t they just export one like this to Chicago or Detroit, or both?

JH
JH
3 years ago

Sorry ladies, but if you want respect from men, you will stop this type of behaviour. Most men know that if name calling gets beyond a point, we are going to settle it outside. How does one respect this affirmative action hire, spewing nonsense? How would you feel if you worked your a z z off for twenty years to lose your job to this…..

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