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- Shopping center overdose death: Seattle Fire says it was unable to revive a man found unresponsive after a reported fentanyl overdose at the Harvard Market shopping center at Broadway and Pike Tuesday morning. SFD says its crews attempted CPR on the 41-year-old but were not successful and he was declared dead at the scene. Fire Chief Harold Scoggins has said the department currently responds to around 15 drug overdoses a day driven by a surge in fentanyl use. King County is adding treatment facilities, and relaunching its Seattle sobering center to take on the crisis.
- Staircase push robbery: Police were also called to the Harvard Market shopping center early Sunday morning after a victim reported being pushed down a flight of stairs and robbed by an armed man. According to the SPD brief on the 6:30 AM incident, the victim said the suspect pointed a shotgun and took their wallet after the fall before fleeing onto First Hill with the gun concealed inside an umbrella. SPD searched the area but made no arrests. There were no serious injuries reported.
- Madison Park bank robbery: A bank robber escaped after holding up the Wells Fargo in Madison Park last Friday afternoon. According to police, the suspect entered the 4000 block E Madison bank just after 2:30 PM and demanded cash while implying he had a gun. The bandit fled the bank with “a few hundred dollars” and was last seen headed west but police say they were unable to track the thief down.
- Arrest after slow truck chase: Police made one arrest after finally catching up with the driver in a slow speed chase through the streets of northeast Capitol Hill last Friday night after finding a stolen vehicle with the occupants slumped over inside. According to the SPD report on the 9:30 PM incident, officers moved into position around the vehicle and placed a “tire deflation device” below the truck but were unable to stir the passed out occupants. Police say the driver finally came to and attempted to speed away, popping the vehicles tires and beginning a noisy, slow pursuit through Capitol Hill. When the truck fled onto 520, SPD turned the situation over to state patrol but were informed that the suspect vehicle had exited the freeway back onto Capitol Hill. Police found the truck nearby on 10th Ave E where they say the occupants were caught trying to steal another vehicle. The suspect driver was arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle, DUI, hit and run, and vehicle theft, police say.
- Police aid in search for child: SPD reports a child was found safe after a heart-breaking situation at the Central District’s Douglas Truth Library last Thursday morning:
At 1037 hours, A CPS supervisor was conducting a supervised visitation between the victim (5 months) and the suspect in the East Precinct area. The suspect took the victim from the location without permission from the CPS supervisor. The suspect fled the area on foot. East patrol officers, and additional resources responded to the scene to assist with the search. The suspect was found in the area and with the victim.
Police say the suspect was arrested for investigation of abduction. The child was safe and taken back into custody by Child Protective Services after a precautionary exam at Harborview. - Off-leash dog ‘brawl’: There were no arrests after a melee broke out over an off-leash dog amid the crowds enjoying the early evening on the plastic turf of Bobby Morris playfield Sunday night. Video provided to CHS shows the aftermath of what was a one on one fight on the Cal Anderson field between an owner of the dog and another male. The video shows the moments after the dog owner released the other male from a headlock on the ground only to be turned on and beaten and stomped by a group before the assault was broken up. Seattle Fire was called to the park but medical attention was declined. CHS has reported repeatedly including this report last year about the tensions that arise with Cal Anderson serving as a de facto dog park due to the lack of official off-leash facilities in the area. In April, the parks department announced its plans for new off-leash areas — Capitol Hill and the Central District did not make the cut. Fines for off-leash citations start at $50 and can be as high as $500 if you and your canine are busted at a Seattle beach. SPD responded to the fight incident and spoke with the man who was beaten but made no arrests. It is not clear if the dog owner was cited for any off-leash violations.
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damn. i personally don’t mind the off leash dogs at cal anderson but no one should be bringing a dog that is not well behaved. throw a ball around, roughhouse with the other dogs, come when called. if it’s going up to random people or just wandering 200 feet from you that is not an ‘unofficial off leash dog park’ situation, it’s just a dog without a leash, and that can be bad news for plenty of people and dangerous for the dog too. be a responsible owner and save us all some grief.
The crime is the assault on this guy, hopefully the police will follow up and all of these folks will go to jail.
Seattle needs to quickly hire more cops, this right here is evidence that we don’t have enough of them to keep the park safe. This sort of vigilante justice is not helpful, all of them should go to jail.
It would be nice if we could remove the open air drug zone from that QFC. It’s only been that way since the pandemic. It’s only one of our densest neighborhoods, it’s only right next to the shiny new Pride Place building!
FFS.
Agreed, it’s embarrassing and needs to be shut off.
Arrest anyone who is using drugs publicly for a week and it will stop existing
Oh my god you techies want to over-sterilze the area so much. Why even move to the Hill? Try Magnolia. Or Bellevue.
There’s a difference between sterilization and public safety concerns. Go hang out with your buddies on that corner and report back.
Not wanting to have to walk through a crowd of hallucinating and agitated or nodded off addicts and a pile of trash just to buy groceries is not calling for sterilizing anything… You, whatever you are, want to normalize incredibly disruptive behavior.
No.. when I moved here in the early 90s the area was actually gritty… but didn’t have the problems it has now… These days the hill is really an upscale neighborhood in the inside.. and a dump in the sidewalks.
LMAO. Yeah Capitol Hill is metal man! I’m kidding and this narrative sucks.
honestly as a looong term hill lover even I’m starting to lose patience with the scale of the sidewalk foil smoking. old school capitol hill was grimy on the inside and outside, not just a lot of untreated addiction on the street. but there isn’t really a good solution (arrest everyone? you have to laugh… like KCJ and the courts have room even if this SPD district would do it), so it’s going off and now people are running over camps in cars. fucked up all around honestly.
This is such a profoundly stupid take. Grow up, dude.
There is also a relatively new druggie scene at the Broadway Market QFC (south side, usually), with a group of 4-6 people hanging out together, openly using drugs, littering etc. I wish the SPD would arrest them (then diverted into programs for help), thereby sending a message that this will not be tolerated.
Nice looking group there kicking and stomping the offending dog walker. Makes me so proud to live in this city of miscreants.
Nothing says you’re a big tough guy like stomping on someone who’s unresponsive… You know, Cal Anderson, and central Capitol Hill used to be a place I enjoyed spending time in the evenings after work, but these days it’s such a mess I avoid it as much as I can.
Notice how the lovely young man who was released from the head lock graciously kicked the downed dog walker in the head. This after his friends jumped in and forced the headlock release by kicking and punching the man, who appeared to be unconscious for much of the beating. And this publication asks if he was cited for an off leash violation? I would say that offense shrinks to insignificance given the vicious assault this video captures.
Did the dog walker think this was some sort of MMA match, and that once the kid tapped out the ref would be there holding his arm up and declaring him a winner, smiles all around? What was his plan – hold the kid in a choke hold until the police came? Stupid position to get yourself into in the first place. Street brawls are never pretty, so don’t instigate one unless you know what you’re doing to stay alive and/or what your endgame is.
We don’t know how it started Charles, nor who was the aggressor. The answer to me is not important, however, because those who assault a person viciously as a group and continue kicking him in the head when he is down are the party in the wrong. Case closed.
Never said they were in the right to do that. At all. But you know, the dog dude FAFO. That kid didn’t get into a headlock all by himself. But yeah, knowing the full story might dampen some of the righteous pout-rage so better not go there. Life is sadly messy and ugly at times, esp when it comes to a mix of teenagers and some drunk asshole.
You have never said anything remotely negative about the group who assaulted the dog walker. Everything you have said about the dog walker has been negative. You’ve questioned his lack of a plan, called him a drunk asshole, wondered why he put someone in a headlock, criticized his lack of an end game. Where in your statements have you questioned or criticized those who assaulted him after he was down and apparently unconscious, and then robbed him? Forgive me for believing you are taking sides here, I certainly am, and I have stated it succinctly. Those “kids” should be apprehended and prosecuted to the fullest extent. They are dangerous.
And you still haven’t answered the question as to why the dude (not a ‘dogwalker’) had a teenager in a headlock on the ground? Was he trying to be a NYC subway ‘hero?’ What if he choked that kid to death because his buddies just asked the guy nicely to let go? Bad behavior on both sides for sure. Those kids shouldn’t act like that, and I would not defend them (and I would try and break it up if I saw that happening), esp the late kicks and punches are awful. But it’s not that shocking – you act as if life is a bubble and it’s the first time you’ve seen something like this. The ‘victim’ also declined aid, and probably also declined to help the police as he knew he was being an idiot. I just don’t think this is as straight up of a case of ‘lock em’ up! and throw away the key as you would like it to be.
Here’s the full video. Just stupid male behavior all around.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/1c4tdkn/fight_cal_anderson/
The Wild West of outside QFC and the stairs at Pike /Broadway has got to come to an end. How many incidents need to occur here.
Broadway and Pike has turned into the new Third and Pine. Sorry to hear about the man who died, but I wish the city would do something about the junkies, dealers, filth and violence there.
A weekend of our best and brightest at play!
The gun was concealed inside an umbrella?? Danny DeVito, is that you?
The real crime here seems to be the guy being jumped by the 4 other people, being stolen from as he lay unconscious and possibly bleeding from the mouth on the ground in Cal Anderson Park, in full view of dozens of people not giving a rip that it happened.
But yes let’s blame him for having his dog off leash.
But as so many on this blog say, hey, at least we aren’t as bad as .. St. Louis or some other city with a propensity for garbage violence.
Wowza. Need a trigger warning on that one
That QFC is a mess. They should pay off-duty cops to hang out in front of it like the Fred Meyer I’ve visited in Tacoma does. Heck, the Starbucks over at 7th and Westlake has off-duty cops every time I pass by and it’s in a nicer spot. That QFC has security in the front near the self-check out but they never seem to leave that area even though throughout the store you’ll be asked for money by people on a fairly regular basis. And it’s junkie city right out in front of the store, they’re always smoking fentanyl just outside the door.
I was thinking maybe we should do something to fix this. Perhaps in Olympia, our beloved state government could change the laws allowing us to commit junkies involuntarily into treatment and then investing in a treatment infrastructure. But I guess the state is taking the cheaper way out and just hoping they all die off and then presto! Problem solved. I know people will blame the city, but the city can’t change those laws and I have a feeling if Seattle decided to hardcore lock up junkies, the state department of corrections might just frown on that as they don’t really have the capacity to hold all those junkies AND the junkies would just move to a different city and then we’re just making our problem Burien’s problem, or Bellevue’s problem, or Federal Way’s problem. And that’s not really solving the problem. I was thinking, SOLVE IT solve it. Like for the whole state. Oh and I don’t know, maybe have some undercover cops watch those areas like 3rd and Pine or on 4th near Westlake Park where I can see them dispersing drugs in plain sight, maybe arrest the dealers and lock them up Make them more expensive by cutting into the supply.
Personally, I’m having a great time in China, where every piece of human trash committing a criminal assault in this video would already be in jail where they belong.
Jailing everyone you don’t like makes such a great society for the people not in jail
Criminals should be in jail.
The edited video clip and skewed reporting here are trying to frame this as an incident caused by an offleash dog. View the full video on Reddit and read the comments there. The dog was not the issue here. Alcohol played a much larger part. According to comments from people who were there, the two people with the dog – the man and a woman – were intoxicated and harassing women at the park prior to this incident. This man could have walked away several times, but chose to fight. There was bad behavior all around – including a guy who stole the man’s wallet when the man was unconscious at the end of the video. This “melee broke out” because a bunch of people were intoxicated at a public park, not because of an offleash dog.
Provide a link?
FYI, I did post the link but it was not approved. Reposted again, but the link didn’t make it through. Trying again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/s/G62NaqwIPo
If you feel the need to put somebody in a headlock, then you had also better be prepared to finish up what you started, even if that involves taking on a dozen of his friends. And the absolute worse position you can get yourself into in a fight is on the ground. Sure, it’s ‘ugly’ seeing what these kids did, but we also don’t have the info of why the dog owner felt the need to resort to a headlock in the first place, and what was said or done leading up to it. If you do ever find yourself in this position, curl up into a ball and protect your head.
And please, put your damn dogs on a leash! The other evening I witnessed the tragic sight of a woman on Union having to lift her dead ‘toy’ dog out of the street with a plastic bag. What I didn’t see – a leash.
I love how the chubby loser stole the dudes money after his friends saved him from getting beat up. LOL