Seattle’s Chief of Police: Out to Lunch While $2M Walks Out the Door - Hat tip Jason Rantz - KTTH
Seattle isn’t Gotham, but it’s sure as hell running on Gotham rules these days—criminals run the streets while leadership stuffs their faces. 🍔💎
Last Thursday afternoon, around 1:45 p.m., four masked robbers stormed Menashe & Sons Jewelers in West Seattle, a landmark family-owned shop that’s been around for decades. Armed with bear spray and a Taser, they used hammers to smash through the front door and six display cases. In less than 90 seconds, they made off with roughly $2 million in diamonds, luxury watches, and gold.
And where was Police Chief Shon Barnes during this daylight blitz?
Yards away. Eating lunch. 🥪
You can’t make this shit up. The robbers’ getaway car literally blocked in his police SUV while his so-called protective detail sat inside a nearby business in plain clothes, apparently too busy with their menus to notice the city’s most iconic jeweler getting gutted across the street. 🤦♀️
SPD’s excuse? The Chief and his crew were “inside a business and unaware.” Translation: they were clueless while $2 million evaporated right under their noses. If the Chief and his detail can’t even spot a smash-and-grab happening on the same block, why the hell are Seattle taxpayers footing the bill for their salaries, perks, and SUV?
Here’s the question no one a wants to answer: who exactly is on Barnes’ detail? Because whether they’re blind, asleep, or incompetent, the outcome is the same: Seattle belongs to the criminals.
Meanwhile, Mayor Bruce Harrell—already licking his wounds from a humiliating primary defeat—keeps gaslighting residents with his tired “there’s no crime crisis” line. Really, Bruce? Your hand-picked Chief just got clowned in broad daylight by four guys with hammers and bear spray. That’s not “bad optics.” That’s a failure of leadership so epic it borders on comedy.
Seattle has officially become the punchline:
Criminals: predatory, laughing like hyenas, stripping Seattle bare while mocking the law. 💰
SPD leadership: oblivious, drooling over sandwiches, stunned like deer in headlights. 🚗 (not a good look)
Residents: helpless, burned repetitively by negligence, while the city crumbles around them. 🔥
And you know what else I wonder? Did Barnes even pay for that lunch, or did he get it “on the house”? Or maybe he whipped out his $1,000 finder’s bonus from 2 blog posts ago? Either way, it’s a epic shitshow. 💩
This isn’t just embarrassing—it’s dangerous. If crooks feel confident enough to gut Menashe & Sons in broad daylight while the Chief of Police is next door, what do you think that tells every other criminal in Seattle? Exactly: this city is theirs for the taking.
Barnes and Harrell are the living, breathing embodiment of Seattle’s decay—two worthless turds laying in the yard while pretending everything smells like roses. And until someone starts asking the real questions—like who the hell is on the Chief’s detail, and why the fuck are they still employed?—Seattle’s crime “strategy” will remain nothing more than lip service and lunch breaks.
At this point, it seems the only thing these 2 can protect is their lunch. Maybe a couple of Paul Blart: Mall Cop positions would be more suitable. 🚨🛴 But then again, there’s jewelry stores in malls. Maybe that’s not a great idea.
Once again, hat tip to Jason Rantz for exposing this insanity with his reporting. 🎯
