Head of Seattle Police Officers Guild Has the Perfect Response to Mayor's Effort to Have Cops Track ICE

RedState 

While Minneapolis has been grabbing a lot of the headlines when it comes to anti-ICE insanity, it's not the only place where leftists have a twisted approach.  

In Seattle, they now have a new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson. She's already off to the races this week on the unhinged actions.

Seattle's progressive Mayor Katie Wilson announced a series of moves Thursday that ban federal agents from using city property to conduct immigration enforcement operations and requiring the police department to investigate, verify, and document reports of enforcement activities, citing the "unpredictable, chaotic, and violent behavior" of the federal government. 

Here's more of what she's saying. 

She wants the police not only to track ICE, but she's mandating that they "share" and cooperate with community organizations to make sure they have the "latest and most accurate information about ICE activities." 

I don't know about you, but that says to me that she's tasking them to be ICE trackers and turn it over to the "community partners." You mean the ICE Watch/response groups? Are those partners of which you speak? Are you kidding?  

Not only aren't you going to help the feds take criminal illegal aliens off the street to protect your people or call out your local crazies involved in the anti-ICE effort, but now she wants to delegate the police away from what they should be doing to track ICE. Unless you're delegating them to be cooperative when needed - which is not what she's doing - that's crazy. 

Sounds like the local law enforcement union thinks it is as well. Check out this perfect response to this from the president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, Mike Solan. 

"Toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives. The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen. I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns."

Thankfully, some in the police have sense and are willing to call out this nonsense. That's the right answer. 

The police also already have enough to do. It's so wrong to put them in that position, and the mayor should be focused on helping them do the job they're supposed to do. 

We saw another situation like this in Los Angeles, when LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said that he would not have his men enforce the "no mask ban" on federal agents that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law. 

The reality of one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict over something that would be a misdemeanor at best, or an infraction. It doesn't make any sense.

It's not a good public policy decision, and it wasn't well thought out in my opinion.

Meanwhile, Newsom should be concerned that the LAPD and federal agents were getting assaulted by the anti-ICE agitators on Friday night. Democrats should be condemning these actions and taking a stand against all of this. 

But they're not. 

Folks like Newsom and Wilson don't care about the consequences of their bad policies, which is why they are always leaving everything they touch a mess.