Radio host Jason Rantz told Fox News Radio "Guy Benson Show" Thursday that Seattle's definition of embracing the Black Lives Matter campaign entails laying off Black police officers and forcing the city's Black Police chief to resign.
"Welcome to Seattle, where Black Lives Matter means firing all of these Black officers and then throwing out the Black Female Chief of Police in a place typically dominated by White Men," he said.
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Carmen Best, Seattle Police Commissioner, announced her resignation Tuesday saying she can no longer do it and admitting, "I 'm done."
"The [city] council has offered us $1.6 million to make sure we recruit the strongest, the brightest and the most diverse to put them on," Strongest said. "And less than a year later, we 're probably going to turn them all away. It looks quite duplicate. My convictions are with me. I really can't do it.
Carmen Best, Chief of Police in Seattle declares her resignation Tuesday. (Ted S. Warren / AP Photo)
Carmen Best, Chief of Police in Seattle declares her resignation Tuesday. (Ted S. Warren / AP Photo)
Following an effort to curb crime, the Seattle City Council voted to reallocate the department's budget to finance neighborhood services, a step Rantz said would most likely not change anything.
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"They are civic groups that this time around are meant to be ... In reality, they 're trying to tackle some of the root causes of the violence and the crime we've seen. "We necessarily presume that we are going to see immediate results by simply eliminating all these officers and then putting resources into those services. And of course we know that won't happen.
One of the groups affected by the reallocation, Rantz said, was Seattle's Navigation Unit, which was cleaning up from the streets homeless encampments.
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"And if we are simply cleaning up these areas, where we are not allowing people to live in their own filth, surrounded not just by human waste but also by needles, this council is apparently inhumane," he said. "We 're not just seeing an rise in homelessness ... But we'll see an spike in all the crime that's connected to it very clearly.