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Signs and shouts filled Seattle City Council chambers Tuesday night as councilmembers voted to approve an ordinance making the use or possession
of illicit drugs a gross misdemeanor.

"You have blood on your hands," activists can be heard shouting after the
6-3 vote in a video by journalist Jonathan Choe.

Critics call it a War on Drugs 2.0, but supporters hope enforcement will improve public safety and help push addicts into treatment.

SEATTLE BUS DRIVERS GETTING SICK FROM FENTANYL SMOKE ON CITY BUSES AMID
DRUG, HOMELESSNESS CRISIS: REPORT

Those who use or possess illegal drugs in the Emerald City can be subject
to gross misdemeanor charges, although the ordinance does encourage police
to prioritize diversion. A gross misdemeanor allows a judge to impose more
jail time than under a regular misdemeanor.

But the council's bill recommends arrests only when an individual
"presents a threat of harm to others," The Seattle Times reported.

"I hope that we see a measurable increase in the number of people who are getting well, who are taking advantage of services and who are getting off
the street," Councilmember Andrew Lewis said, according to KING 5. "And I
hope that we see accountability for people who are declining those
services, who continue to disrupt public services on our streets by not
taking advantage of them."

Lewis and Councilmember Lisa Herbold both voted in favor of the revised ordinance after originally voting against it in June.

'THEY WERE LAUGHING': WOMAN VICIOUSLY BEATEN AT SEATTLE-AREA GAS STATION
OVER CASH, CIGS AND CANDY

The city ordinance mirrors Washington state's misdemeanor drug possession
law passed earlier this year after the state's supreme court ruled its
previous felony drug law was unconstitutional. The state law makes drug
use and knowing possession punishable by up to 180 days in jail, a $1,000
fine, or both.

Councilmember Tammy Morales, who voted against the ordinance twice, called
the bill "ineffective."

"It adds potential racial harm and makes false promises at a time when
folks are desperate for solutions," Morales said. "This bill is
unnecessary, dare I say performative."

The bill will take effect 30 days after Mayor Bruce Harrell signs it,
which he pledged to do in a statement after the vote.

"As soon as this bill reaches my desk, I will sign it," Harrell wrote,
calling the vote a "needed step forward" to address Seattle's drug
epidemic.

WASHINGTON MAYOR CLAIMS SHE’S BEING HARASSED AFTER CALLING 911 ON ‘FAR
RIGHT’ ACTIVISTS AT WALMART

There have been 761 fatal overdoses involving fentanyl so far this year in
King County, already surpassing last year's fentanyl deaths, according to public health data.

"Fentanyl is tragically killing thousands in our city and around the
country, and we need urgency and innovative solutions to make change,"
Harrell said.

About a dozen people lined the back of council chambers, holding signs
listing "reasons why we cannot allow [Seattle Police Department] to use
their discretion." One sign referenced a recently released video showing
an officer joking and laughing about a woman who was struck and killed by
a patrol car.

"Our police department doesn’t care about the law," community member
Alexander Mayben said, according to the Times. "Our police department
appears to be inconvenienced at best by the need to ensure public safety."

knights-who-say-ni
14 hours ago

So the Democrat's said lets decriminalize drug use as it's unfair to put
drug users in jail.

Let's give them clean needles to use to enable their drug use.

Let's give them a safe place they can shoot up their drugs.

Let's ignore open air drugs deals on our streets so they can get their
next high.

Let's enable them by allowing them to sleep and leave human waste on our streets.

Let's enable them by passing out free food and cash handouts.

Let's enable them by making shoplifting legal so they can steal to support their addiction.

Let's show empathy by allowing them to slowly poison themselves to death
on our streets.

jimmyhornblower
14 hours ago

What's perplexing to me is how all of these people survived the PANDEMIC
with no medical care, masks, vaccines or social distancing.

If Covid were a real health risk, wouldn't there have been scores of dead people in the streets? Yet the homeless population just continued to
grow.

Odd.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blood-hands-activists-decry-ban-public-drug- use-passed-blue-city-leaders

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On 9/21/23 01:34, useapen wrote:

Signs and shouts filled Seattle City Council chambers Tuesday night as councilmembers voted to approve an ordinance making the use or possession
of illicit drugs a gross misdemeanor.

"You have blood on your hands," activists can be heard shouting after the 6-3 vote in a video by journalist Jonathan Choe.

Critics call it a War on Drugs 2.0, but supporters hope enforcement will improve public safety and help push addicts into treatment.

SEATTLE BUS DRIVERS GETTING SICK FROM FENTANYL SMOKE ON CITY BUSES AMID DRUG, HOMELESSNESS CRISIS: REPORT

Those who use or possess illegal drugs in the Emerald City can be subject
to gross misdemeanor charges, although the ordinance does encourage

police

to prioritize diversion. A gross misdemeanor allows a judge to impose

more

jail time than under a regular misdemeanor.

But the council's bill recommends arrests only when an individual
"presents a threat of harm to others," The Seattle Times reported.

"I hope that we see a measurable increase in the number of people who are getting well, who are taking advantage of services and who are

getting off

the street," Councilmember Andrew Lewis said, according to KING 5. "And I hope that we see accountability for people who are declining those
services, who continue to disrupt public services on our streets by not taking advantage of them."

Lewis and Councilmember Lisa Herbold both voted in favor of the revised ordinance after originally voting against it in June.

'THEY WERE LAUGHING': WOMAN VICIOUSLY BEATEN AT SEATTLE-AREA GAS STATION OVER CASH, CIGS AND CANDY

The city ordinance mirrors Washington state's misdemeanor drug possession law passed earlier this year after the state's supreme court ruled its previous felony drug law was unconstitutional. The state law makes drug
use and knowing possession punishable by up to 180 days in jail, a $1,000 fine, or both.

Councilmember Tammy Morales, who voted against the ordinance twice,

called

the bill "ineffective."

"It adds potential racial harm and makes false promises at a time when
folks are desperate for solutions," Morales said. "This bill is
unnecessary, dare I say performative."

The bill will take effect 30 days after Mayor Bruce Harrell signs it,
which he pledged to do in a statement after the vote.

"As soon as this bill reaches my desk, I will sign it," Harrell wrote, calling the vote a "needed step forward" to address Seattle's drug
epidemic.

WASHINGTON MAYOR CLAIMS SHE’S BEING HARASSED AFTER CALLING 911 ON ‘FAR RIGHT’ ACTIVISTS AT WALMART

There have been 761 fatal overdoses involving fentanyl so far this

year in

King County, already surpassing last year's fentanyl deaths, according to public health data.

"Fentanyl is tragically killing thousands in our city and around the country, and we need urgency and innovative solutions to make change," Harrell said.

About a dozen people lined the back of council chambers, holding signs listing "reasons why we cannot allow [Seattle Police Department] to use their discretion." One sign referenced a recently released video showing
an officer joking and laughing about a woman who was struck and killed by
a patrol car.

"Our police department doesn’t care about the law," community member Alexander Mayben said, according to the Times. "Our police department appears to be inconvenienced at best by the need to ensure public

safety."

knights-who-say-ni
14 hours ago

So the Democrat's said lets decriminalize drug use as it's unfair to put drug users in jail.

No drug user ever got over addiction in Jail, sometimes in prison but never in jail.

Let's give them clean needles to use to enable their drug use.

To prevent the spread of HIB-AIDS and other blood-borne
diseases like Hepatitis B and C, Mercia and quite a few others.

Let's give them a safe place they can shoot up their drugs.

Where they can get medical attention if they overdose.

Let's ignore open air drugs deals on our streets so they can get their
next high.

Because one street level dealer busted is replaced by another
desperate person needing money for their lives.

Let's enable them by allowing them to sleep and leave human waste on our streets.

Well that is unwelcome but if they have to live on the street
you can expect messiness.

Let's enable them by passing out free food and cash handouts.

The hungry must be fed according to Christian Doctrine.

Let's enable them by making shoplifting legal so they can steal to

support

their addiction.

I have never heard of that. Shoplifters by the way can get upset by interference and either be killed or kill others.

Let's show empathy by allowing them to slowly poison themselves to death
on our streets.

Well we let the alcoholics do it all the time. Alcohol is probably still killing more people than Fentanyl. Fentanyl is the
criminal entrepreneurs response to the Narcotics epidemic produced
by the pharmaceutical companies promotion of new narcotics formulations.

jimmyhornblower
14 hours ago

What's perplexing to me is how all of these people survived the PANDEMIC with no medical care, masks, vaccines or social distancing.

How do you know that they were unvaccinated? In San Francisco it
seems many contacts of homeless folks are limited. They were given
masks.

If Covid were a real health risk, wouldn't there have been scores of dead people in the streets? Yet the homeless population just continued to
grow.

Dead people in the streets in a modern city are removed due to the possible negative effect on public health and sanitation. Remember
what they had to do with dead bodies in NYC during the worst of the
early epidemics. Refrigerator trailors became extensions of the city
Morgue.
One of my good acquaintances has had multiple bouts of Covid
leading to severe Long Covid so if it does not alway kill it can
disable. He was confined to a nursing home as he recovered from brain
surgery to remove cancerous tumors. His body if he had died would never
have been seen on the streets.
The homeless population continues to grow because public housing was neglected since Ronald Reagan's presidency as he closed projects
underway and cut public services to spend on arms that drove the USSR
into failure. The failure of the USSR was supposed to be great but now
we have Putin doing an inept imitation of the Hitlerian blitzkrieg in
the Ukraine.

Odd.

Not at all odd.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blood-hands-activists-decry-ban-public-drug- use-passed-blue-city-leaders

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