Images from a witness of the reported white painter’s suit crew
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- Capitol Hill Station bias assault and armed robbery: A man said he was hit in the head with a skateboard and robbed of his phone at gunpoint in an altercation early Tuesday morning at Capitol Hill Station. According to the SPD report and East Precinct radio, police were called to the station just before 12:30 AM and found the victim with an injury to his head. The victim said he was assaulted by a group of five suspects as he exited the light rail station. The group assaulted the victim and one suspect brandished a firearm and robbed the man of his phone after he had called 911. Police say the assault and ripoff may be a bias crime. “The victim reported the group used racist and homophobic slurs and he believed he was targeted due to his race and sexual orientation,” the SPD report reads. The suspects were last reported northbound on Broadway but could not be located. Seattle Fire was called to the scene to treat the victim.
- White painter’s suit car prowls? A group of car prowlers in white painter’s suits has reportedly been making the rounds. This account recorded two days in September when the same crew was actively prowling the area. If you see the group, give 911 a call.
@jseattle @SeattlePD – close-ups = man prowling my car in a white painter's suit on 9/18, 11pm. On 9/9 on the same street in Capitol Hill, a group of people also in painter's suits here/prowling for a couple hours. I can't be the only one to have caught/connected these these? pic.twitter.com/1a0CrNa3Gm
— melindoir (@melindoir) September 20, 2023
- E Cherry gunfire: Police were called to a business in the 2700 block of E Cherry around 8 PM, Wednesday, September 6th after a window was reported hit by gunfire:
At 20:03hrs, a 911 call was received stating a bullet broke the door to a business in the 2700 block of East Cherry Street. Officers arrived and located evidence of the shooting..
There were no reported injuries - Classroom bullet: Police were called to the private Northwest School after a bullet was found in a classroom on the Summit Ave campus. SPD reports it was called around 11:45 on the morning of Tuesday, September 5th to investigate the unspent round found by staff in a classroom that morning. No additional weapons or ammunition were located, SPD reports. There were no arrests.
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Let me guess the police showed up after and took notes? How can we have a precinct so close yet so worthless.
“Seattle Police are asking for the public’s help”
Did you just wake up from a 3 year long coma?
If you’d like more than that, so that you get niceties like neighborhood patrols, then we need more police… where we are at now there are not even enough to handle priority calls, much less do much about crimes that are no longer in progress and don’t involve imminent violence.
What you really want is beat cops.. which are rarely found anywhere these days or a Koban system – like in Japan… In Tokyo they’ve got little buildings that are staffed 24/7 with one to five officers (depending on location, with quiet residential areas being the smaller). They’ve got about one of these per square mile that house about 1/2 of the police. We’d need way, way more officers to do that though.
White painter’s suit car prowls? Droogies? Were there bowlers involved?