Firing of SPD chief just more evidence of social politics hypocrisy in this city

 

I have to admit that in allegedly "liberal" cities like Seattle it is remarkably easy for people to choose to be misled by their own hypocrisy. In a city where there is an “unspoken” culture of exclusion and stereotyping concerning anyone who passes for “Mexican,” the Adrian Diaz story is nothing but expected.  I mean this city is so far behind the times that it doesn't know that signs like this on Metro buses are quaint artifacts of a past long gone:

 

You hardly see any "Mexicans" on buses going to or from Seattle these days, but plenty of others--whites, blacks, Asians, Haitians, Indians--who don't know the "ride right" rules, but Metro only thinks Spanish speakers are a "problem," given the absence of a post even in English on this particular bus.

Diaz was a surprise pick for permanent chief of police in 2022 after a term as interim chief. I suspect he was tolerated until that point. He was removed earlier this year after complaints by some SPD officers about not being properly “appreciated” by someone they regarded as “inferior.”

Diaz was officially “fired” this past week by the mayor after the completion of an internal “investigation” which found he allegedly had an improper relationship with a former television news reporter named Jamie Thompkins and used his position to provide her employment in the department. 

The “smoking gun” evidence that reached even the New York Post, which called it a “corny love letter” written by Thompkins and was “found” in a police vehicle, and what the Seattle Times referred to as part of the “lurid details” of the story.  Diaz called the letter a "joke," and there is more reason to believe that it was than how it is being portrayed as "evidence" by city officials and the media.

Frankly, I think the "luridness" is on the side of the Seattle Times and those engaged in the “investigation.” It must have been an "editorial decision" on the part of The Times to leave out an image of the "love interest" in this case, since it would leave in the minds of people the question of who was using who in this. I mean someone who looked like Thompkins… 

 

...wasn't playing someone who looked like Diaz…

 

…for a fool for personal gain? That "relationship" was in no way serious on her part save as "business" arrangement for her own advantage, not his, as it turned out.

Give me an effing break. Are people are that stupid? Well, maybe Diaz was for falling for her machinations, as well as many in city government and media who didn’t see what was really going on. Diaz says he is going to sue the city, and I hope he does. He recently "outed" himself as being gay, and perhaps at the time he "appreciated" the "attention" which I have no doubt she encouraged, since it quieted people snickering behind his back.

It is plain enough to “see” what was going on here, but then again there are many blind people in Seattle, given the social politics in the city.