Why is no one talking about this Seattle police video?

Seattle police this week released a dash cam video of a gunman firing at officers in South Seattle on New Year’s Eve, but KIRO Radio’s Ron & Don wonder why no one is talking about it.

Seattle police posted the video, along with a description of the event, on their blotter. The video shows police getting into a gun battle with unknown suspects.

KIRO host Don O’Neill wonders why this incident is getting such little coverage.

“The weird thing to me is nobody is talking about this tape. After everything we’ve seen in New York City where two officers were executed. Now you have two other officers who were shot and you have a number of other officers around the country who have been shot.”

The blotter says officers had originally been called to the domestic violence incident around 10 p.m. and after their investigation concluded, they left the scene but were called back around 10:30 p.m. While they were interviewing the suspect at the scene near their police cruiser, gunfire erupted.

After watching the police footage, Don thinks this was clearly a very perilous situation for officers and wonders why Seattle police aren’t willing to talk more about it.

“We’ve asked SPD spokesperson Sean Whitcomb to come on. He’s referred us back to the statement. We’ve asked the chief of police to come on, she’s referred us back to this statement,” says Don.

“If I’m the chief of police in Seattle, Washington and on New Year’s someone tried to murder Seattle police officers, I’d be on every television station. I’d be on every radio show. I’d be raising hell right now. I’d be giving out that Crime Stoppers phone number. I’d be encouraging people in that neighborhood, if they saw anything, to pick up the phone and call. I would go door to door.”

Don says he’s sure they’re still investigating, but he’s unclear on why Seattle police don’t want to draw more attention to this incident, considering this could have been a deadly attack on cops.

“If there are people right now who are trying to kill Seattle police officers,” says Don, “then why isn’t this a bigger story?”