Whoa.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her resignation last night after the city council cut her salary by $100,000 as well as voting for massive cuts to the department’s budget:
BREAKING:
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best is resigning.
Press conference at 11am Tuesday.
Say Source: @SeattleCouncil, & actions over the last days, including a proposed massive pay cut, plus refusal to denounce marches to her house, reasons in decision.@KING5Seattle
— Chris Daniels (@ChrisDaniels5) August 11, 2020
So, the city council cut the salary of the African-American woman? How progressive of them!
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her retirement Monday night, shortly after a city council vote to cut nearly $4 million from the department's budget. https://t.co/wykb2WUZkr
— CNN (@CNN) August 11, 2020
“This was a difficult decision for me, but when it’s time, it’s time,” she said in a statement last night:
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best is resigning. Here's the message she just sent to officers, hours after the Seattle City Council voted on cuts to the police department budget. pic.twitter.com/FxUj3UiL9P
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 11, 2020
This is not a good look for the city council:
Seattle's first black police chief is resigning after the city council quite randomly cut her pay and then let anarchists repeatedly surround her house https://t.co/cUppqHcZxm
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 11, 2020
And we’re looking forward to all the lib women out there calling out the city council over this (which they won’t do):
Progressive plan to cure Seattle of violent riots:
1. Defund Police.
2. Tell African American Chief of Police that she is worth $100k less than her white male predecessor.
3. Sit back and watch the violence fade away!— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) August 11, 2020
“You’ve driven a powerful black woman out of a job”:
Wow. If true, I can’t blame her. City “leaders” are out of their minds and her department is being slashed & prevented from doing its job, in humiliating fashion. And congrats, wokesters — you’ve driven a powerful black woman out of a job. “Progress”! https://t.co/awcW237pQH
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 11, 2020
Now, this brings us to Matt Yglesias, who is getting dragged by blue-check libs over this 100% accurate take:
Continued odd happenings in the Pacific Northwest where a 70% white city has hounded its Black police chief out of office as an act of racial justice. https://t.co/bSq4YWpC3k
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 11, 2020
No, it is not an “egregiously bad take”:
This is an egregiously bad take
— Brett Hamil (@BrettHamil) August 11, 2020
Well, take that up with Vox:
This is why people don’t trust your commentary
— Brett Hamil (@BrettHamil) August 11, 2020
A “yikes,” even:
Yikes. https://t.co/NbZNduBe0a
— David Lytle, Armed Potato Guard (@davitydave) August 11, 2020
Watch out, Matt. They’re coming for your job:
Think of all of the incredible writers SB Nation laid off so that this guy could continue to say things like this on a regular basis https://t.co/JY8ndeGqE2
— aaron (@AaronCampeau) August 11, 2020
And LOL:
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