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Blame Seattle City Council for criminals on our streets

May 17, 2018, 1:15 PM

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(MyNorthwest file photo)

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The decisions that are made by our politicians have very real real-life consequences. If you bring in thousands of homeless people from around the country, a small percentage of them are going to be so mentally gone that it does increase the risk for people in this area.

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Even if it’s 1 percent, if you bring 5,000 homeless people from around the country, that’s 50 people capable of this crime. The homeless population has a greater percentage of people who are criminals.

A local 40-year-old woman went to a local car dealership to get her car serviced at about 7:15 a.m. on Monday morning. She went to get a cup of coffee and went to the bathroom. She heard someone come into the bathroom and start banging on her stall door, forcing it open. The suspect grabbed her by the throat, dragged her from the stall, and raped her.

This is not an indictment of homeless people. It is an indictment of our city council. That police report was written up five or six hours before the head tax vote. Did anyone in power know that a homeless man had raped a woman in Ballard that very morning? Was that kept out of public consciousness between when the report was written and when the head tax vote was taken?

Because yes, I do believe that our city council members are that evil. I do believe that they are willing to put up with collateral damage — occasional rapes and murders — in their pursuit of making this city the U.S. capital of kept homeless. That’s why they don’t mandate drug testing when you get a roof over your head. They only care about protecting people from “the evil rich,” and not the homeless.

For the women on the council, do you think about the consequences of your policy? To the men on the council, do you think about your wives confronting these kind of monsters? This man came from Texas. The word is out — Seattle is the path of least resistance for drug addicts.

The alleged rapist was identified as Chris Teel, a 24-year-old man who moved up here from Texas, where he also had a rap sheet. Teel had an outstanding warrant for breaking into a Magnolia house in August 2016.

In a November 18, 2017 Seattle Times article about the Ballard Nickelsville homeless encampment, the second photo shows a young man down on his luck looking out from between the tiny houses, clearly seeking sympathy. Do you know who is in the photo? Chris Teel — allegedly the same man who would six months later rape a woman in a Ballard bathroom. This guy, who had an outstanding warrant, was suckling at the taxpayer teet in one of these city-sanctioned homeless encampments. He gave his name to a Times reporter, so no doubt the people running the encampments knew his name, and yet they obviously didn’t run his name for warrants because he was still walking free.

Mike O’Brien laughs and smirks when people express their fear about the crime that surrounds the encampments, encampments that his policies have made possible. Now we’ve had at least two brutal rapes/attempted rapes in his district, we’ve had murders in his district, we’ve had a guy doused with gasoline and set on fire in his district. I don’t know how the council members can live with themselves when they see how their policies have turned Seattle into a hellhole. Maybe if we didn’t have the kind of politicians and policies that we have, maybe this guy would have been locked up.

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