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Seattle Mayor Gives Press Conference on New Low Barrier Shelter

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Credit to the Mayor

Sunday afternoon, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson joined a press conference to announce the grand opening of the Bayside Enhanced Shelter community in Interbay.

Gonna be 75 units of transitional housing for homeless drug addicts. There’s already concern it’s going to become a crime magnet in the community. More on that in a moment.

But for now, here is Wilson’s entire Q&A with the press. It turned into a semi sh*t show once the “Stop The Sweeps Seattle” crowd started criticizing the mayor for her aggressive encampment removals.

They also pressed Wilson on her recent decision to activate surveillance cameras for the FIFA World Cup.

Once again, this is another example of the far-left eating their own.

Otherwise, credit to the mayor for staying with it and doing her best to answer these questions. She should do this more often.

Jonathan Choe

Journalist and Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth & Poverty
Jonathan Choe is a journalist and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for its Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top rated television station in Seattle. His in depth stories on crime and deep dive investigations into the homeless crisis led to measurable results in the community, including changes in public policy. Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has also been nominated and honored with multiple industry awards including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entrepreneurship to under privileged youth in inner city Chicago. As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Mill Creek View and Lynnwood Times and has reported on exclusive stories in the past year for Daily Wire and The Postmillennial.