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Dori: Photo of your typical morning crime downtown Seattle

Aug 29, 2018, 10:58 AM

addict, crime...

(Listener contributed photo)

(Listener contributed photo)

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BY DORI MONSON


KIRO Newsradio Host

A listener sent me this photo this morning. This guy was shooting up at 7 a.m. on Third Avenue right in the middle of morning rush hour in downtown Seattle. Open drug use … he likely had committed a crime to buy this fix.

Just another lovely summertime scene in our formerly-beautiful city.

The apathy our Seattle politicians have for human life — both the addicts and their crime victims — is appalling.

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Dori: Photo of your typical morning crime downtown Seattle