Some very troubling news came out today during a Seattle City Council discussion relevant to an amendment pushed by Kshama Sawant.

You may recall the socialist Sawant who has basically been a supportive ally of the radical leftists pushing chaos in Seattle. She is alleged to have let the mob into the City Hall one night to rally and protest for a short period of time. She also allegedly led them to the Mayor’s house which was a non-public address because of threats to the Mayor’s life.

Now in an amendment that was proposed today during a City Council meeting, Sawant was essentially calling to prohibit spending funds to prosecute or collect evidence about crimes that have occurred because of participating in Justice for George Floyd protests.”

Discussion now of an amendment by @cmkshama that would prohibit spending funds to prosecute or collect evidence about incidents that have occurred "during the Justice for George Floyd protests."

— Erica C. Barnett (@ericacbarnett) August 5, 2020

To be specific, this is the section they're debating and that Herbold (and @D5Juarez) expressed concerns about. pic.twitter.com/xjHE81yF9r

— Erica C. Barnett (@ericacbarnett) August 5, 2020

The way the amendment reads as proposed would bar SPD from collecting or transmitting evidence, except when under court orders. Lewis suggests striking "collecting." Sawant objects.

— Daniel Beekman (@DBeekman) August 5, 2020

So if you look at it closely, while it allows for “prosecution” of physical violence against individuals, it doesn’t appear to allow for the investigation of those same crimes if they involve “protesters.”

That means if something like that passed, technically the murder of 19 year old Lorenzo Anderson or the killing of 16 year old Antonio Mays, allegedly by CHAZ security people, might be defunded.

Not to mention, why shouldn’t every crime committed by these miscreants be prosecuted? Why are they getting a pass with this?

Sounds like Sawant was hoping no one would notice the problem in the language.

Sawant says she won’t agree to eliminate evidence collection from her amendment, saying this is “the area where the fabrication of evidence happens.”

— Erica C. Barnett (@ericacbarnett) August 5, 2020

A pretty significant amendment if it were to pass, and extremely disturbing, even for the other progressive members of the council.

They decided to hold off on it for the moment.

This is actually no trivial matter, because the question of whether felonies or violent crimes during protests can be investigated if this amendment passes would have significant impacts.

— Erica C. Barnett (@ericacbarnett) August 5, 2020

Sawant complained about the scrutiny that her proposed amendment got. Small wonder when she’s throwing a wrench in prosecutions.

Crazy and scary stuff, particularly for the families of the people whose children were killed and/or anyone else who faced alleged crime from the protesters.