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Kshama Sawant used $250K of your money to defend herself in cops’ suit

Mar 4, 2019, 5:16 PM | Updated: 5:30 pm

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Councilmember Sawant speaking at the Feb. 21 Human Services Committee meeting. (Seattle Channel)

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Kshama Sawant has no problem calling cops murderers — cops who have been exonerated by an inquest board and defended by the prosecutor.

Sawant was talking about the Che Taylor killing. The cops she was referring to, Officers Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding, filed a defamation lawsuit against her.

However, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman threw out the defamation claims, denying the officers the opportunity to refile the claim. The judge said that Sawant did not identify the cops by name and that her statements were just a reference to the Seattle Police Department in general.

RELATED: Time for Councilmember Kshama Sawant to apologize

Actually, the cops had been identified. Their names were out there as the ones who had to shoot Che Taylor. Everyone was aware of the officers who were involved in the Che Taylor shooting because it was a major news story.

Believe me, talking ad lib on the radio three hours a day, I have to know a little bit about defamation. You don’t have to name someone for it to be defamation — if they are identifiable through the context of your comments, that’s enough. This judge’s ruling is bizarre.

The other bizarre part is that you and I have had to spend more than $250,000 to defend Sawant for her hateful statements. Her fellow Marxists on the Seattle City Council decided that the city would pick up the tab, making the taxpayers cover her defense costs.

She sure has no problem sucking a quarter-million dollars out of the taxpayers. That money could go to other things, like people in need. But no, it goes to this loose-lipped politician all because of her big mouth.

Your tax dollars at work.

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Kshama Sawant used $250K of your money to defend herself in cops’ suit