Rantz: Delusional activists make up claim Seattle police ‘murdered’ man

Posters popped up in South Lake Union claiming Seattle police “murdered” a man, presumably to continue activist pressure to defund police. That didn’t happen.

The posting reads, “On December 6, 2015, The Seattle Police Department murdered Raymond Azevedo. They shot him dead at the the intersection of NE 68th Street and 35th Avenue NE.”

Azevedo wasn’t murdered. In fact, he was actually trying to murder cops.

The sign doesn’t indicate who or what group is responsible for the message.  Anti-cop activists know we have access to Google, right?

Shot after wild car chase where he tried to kill Seattle police

Azevedo took Seattle police on a dangerous, hour-long police chase that started in Downtown Seattle but ended in the Wedgwood neighborhood.

After he reportedly brandished a weapon at a coffee shop in Belltown, which he was illegally carrying due to his many criminal convictions, police were called. When they arrived, KING 5 noted Azevedo escaped to a nearby tattoo shop where he kicked down the door, pointed a gun at employees and demanded to know where the emergency exit was. He used it to escape, stealing a car in the back parking lot.

He drove into the University District where he got into an accident. Then, Azevedo car jacked a vehicle and continued his escape. He would end up car jacking a third vehicle in Roosevelt before making it to Wedgwood. Along the way, he got into several accidents, damaging civilian and police vehicles.

There are some new signs posted by anti-cop lunatics in Seattle.

Azevedo, a criminal with a long rap sheet, was shot after a lengthy police chase where he car jacked three vehicles and shot at police.

The activists hope you don’t know how to use Google. pic.twitter.com/sEnyHm1rjf

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) December 12, 2020

There was no murder

Despite what the flyer claims, Azevedo wasn’t murdered by police, but he was shot and killed by them. Why? He tried to murder them. During the chase, he shot at police at least twice.

After crashing into a police vehicle and a civilian truck on 35th Avenue NE, Azevedo tried to drive away and pointed his semiautomatic handgun at officers. They fired, striking and killing him. He had two guns with him.

Azevedo wasn’t a victim; he was a degenerate criminal with little regard for life.

That activists choose to make him into a martyr for their anti-police cause is instructive. They don’t have many victims to choose from.

King County Metro already took down at least some of the flyers as of 12/19/20.

Lack of options

Despite what Seattle’s anti-police activists will tell you, Seattle police aren’t murderous thugs. Chanting “ACAB” doesn’t replace the facts of these cases.

Activists bellow a barrage of names, claiming them all to be victims of unbelievable abuse at the hands of Seattle police. Pick any name at random, do even a casual internet search, and almost every time the activist case crumbles within moments. For Azevedo, it took me 17 seconds to search the details on Google. Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales are among the anti-police activists who claim Azevedo was murdered.

But these activists hope you’re either dumb or lazy enough to fall for their strategy. They want to overwhelm you with names, hoping you’ll see their delusion and unhinged activism as passion, and that you’ll trust their message. After all, they proclaim themselves to be heroes fighting for marginalized communities and victims of police brutality.

But they’re merely grifters engaging in disingenuous activism to pursue radical agendas reasonable people wouldn’t support, like abolishing the police. And they end up winning battles when you take them at their word. But as any Google search reveals, their words are meaningless.

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