SEATTLE, WA – Seattle’s recently-elected mayor, who identifies politically as a socialist, is playing a dangerous game of politics that teeters on sedition by ordering local police to stalk Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and “investigate” their activities while having the police force siphon gathered intel to “community organizers.”
Back in November, Katie Wilson won the mayoral race in Seattle in what some outlets have described as “an upset” due to the low voter turnout and Wilson having won the race by only a few thousand votes in a city home to nearly 1 million residents.
Seattle is no stranger to radical mayors; for instance, consider the phrase “summer of love” sarcastically used by media pundits still to this day to describe the 2020 BLM riots.
The aforemtioned phrase was coined by none other than former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkin when she downplayed the violence playing out in the autonomous zone created by rioters in the city at the time.
While former Mayor Durkin’s “summer of love” comment was in poor taste and objectively dumb, as was also her handling of the riots in her city back in 2020, her ineptitude and inaction wasn’t criminal.
However, Mayor Wilson, who was sworn into office earlier in January, is already looking to usurp her predecessors in terms of absurd actions mobilized under her direction, ordering local police to engage in conduct that seems awfully seditious.
On January 29th, Mayor Wilson took to social media to share an active initiative she’s tasked the Seattle Police Department (SPD) with, which directs police officers to essentially act as anti-ICE activists aimed at disrupting federal enforcement operations.
In Mayor Wilson’s own released statement regarding “federal immigration enforcement activities,” she detailed the following:
Regarding the directive handed down to local police by the mayor’s office, Mayor Wilson’s announcement further detailed, “If dispatched to [a] location where ICE activity is underway, SPD will: Document activity with video; Validate status of federal agents through identification; Secure scenes of potentially unlawful acts to gather evidence for transmittal to prosecutors.”
The directive given to local police further emphasizes, “SPD will cooperate with City departments and trusted community organizations to ensure everyone has the latest and most accurate information about ICE activities.”
Obviously, terms like “community partners” and “community organizations” are code for anti-ICE protesters and agitators, much like how the term “legal observer” has become synonymous for people who obstruct federal law enforcement.
But there’s a bit of irony in Mayor Wilson’s use of the SPD considering that nearly six years earlier rioters in Seattle were literally fighting with local police, yet now SPD are being told to give organizers of these kinds of riots status reports.
Aside from the peculiar dynamics between Seattle’s modern protest/riot apparatuses and local police, what’s hard to ignore in Mayor Wilson’s announced initiative is the potential legal ramifications – namely, what appears to be an act of seditious conspiracy.
Mayor Wilson isn’t pulling the old wink-and-a-nod schtick with public statements about legal observers or informing illegal aliens about their rights, she’s directing police to effectively hinder federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Under 18 U.S. Code § 2384, one of the manners in which seditious conspiracy occurs is when “two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to… by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.”
When you have Mayor Wilson ordering the SPD to hinder federal law enforcement while also having those officers essentially mobilize anti-ICE activists who routinely obstruct federal authorities, seditious conspiracy would appear to be in play.
It should go without saying, but if you’re a police officer in Seattle, do not carry out these orders from Mayor Wilson, the outcome is not going to be favorable for any police officer dumb enough to follow through with obstructing federal law enforcement.
Acting on any of these directives ushered in by Mayor Wilson could see local police ensnared in a legal conundrum that carries a 20 year prison sentence, and the last thing you want to be in prison is a former police officer.
Back in November, Katie Wilson won the mayoral race in Seattle in what some outlets have described as “an upset” due to the low voter turnout and Wilson having won the race by only a few thousand votes in a city home to nearly 1 million residents.
Seattle is no stranger to radical mayors; for instance, consider the phrase “summer of love” sarcastically used by media pundits still to this day to describe the 2020 BLM riots.
The aforemtioned phrase was coined by none other than former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkin when she downplayed the violence playing out in the autonomous zone created by rioters in the city at the time.
While former Mayor Durkin’s “summer of love” comment was in poor taste and objectively dumb, as was also her handling of the riots in her city back in 2020, her ineptitude and inaction wasn’t criminal.
However, Mayor Wilson, who was sworn into office earlier in January, is already looking to usurp her predecessors in terms of absurd actions mobilized under her direction, ordering local police to engage in conduct that seems awfully seditious.
On January 29th, Mayor Wilson took to social media to share an active initiative she’s tasked the Seattle Police Department (SPD) with, which directs police officers to essentially act as anti-ICE activists aimed at disrupting federal enforcement operations.
In Mayor Wilson’s own released statement regarding “federal immigration enforcement activities,” she detailed the following:
- Direct SPD to investigate, verify, and document ICE activity
- Mandate SPD’s verified information is shared with community partners
- Prohibit ICE from staging operations on City property
- Invest $4 million to support immigrant communities
- Establish the Stand Together Seattle Initiative
Regarding the directive handed down to local police by the mayor’s office, Mayor Wilson’s announcement further detailed, “If dispatched to [a] location where ICE activity is underway, SPD will: Document activity with video; Validate status of federal agents through identification; Secure scenes of potentially unlawful acts to gather evidence for transmittal to prosecutors.”
The directive given to local police further emphasizes, “SPD will cooperate with City departments and trusted community organizations to ensure everyone has the latest and most accurate information about ICE activities.”
Obviously, terms like “community partners” and “community organizations” are code for anti-ICE protesters and agitators, much like how the term “legal observer” has become synonymous for people who obstruct federal law enforcement.
But there’s a bit of irony in Mayor Wilson’s use of the SPD considering that nearly six years earlier rioters in Seattle were literally fighting with local police, yet now SPD are being told to give organizers of these kinds of riots status reports.
Aside from the peculiar dynamics between Seattle’s modern protest/riot apparatuses and local police, what’s hard to ignore in Mayor Wilson’s announced initiative is the potential legal ramifications – namely, what appears to be an act of seditious conspiracy.
Mayor Wilson isn’t pulling the old wink-and-a-nod schtick with public statements about legal observers or informing illegal aliens about their rights, she’s directing police to effectively hinder federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Under 18 U.S. Code § 2384, one of the manners in which seditious conspiracy occurs is when “two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to… by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States.”
When you have Mayor Wilson ordering the SPD to hinder federal law enforcement while also having those officers essentially mobilize anti-ICE activists who routinely obstruct federal authorities, seditious conspiracy would appear to be in play.
It should go without saying, but if you’re a police officer in Seattle, do not carry out these orders from Mayor Wilson, the outcome is not going to be favorable for any police officer dumb enough to follow through with obstructing federal law enforcement.
Acting on any of these directives ushered in by Mayor Wilson could see local police ensnared in a legal conundrum that carries a 20 year prison sentence, and the last thing you want to be in prison is a former police officer.
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