5 shot at Worldwide District Hookah Lounge: Round 4 am on Saturday morning, police responded to stories of gunfire at Caravel Hookah Lounge in Seattle’s Chinatown Worldwide District. Whereas they discovered proof of a taking pictures—shell casings inside and outdoors of the constructing—the police discovered no victims. As an alternative, 4 individuals with gunshot wounds took themselves to Harborview Medical Heart and a fifth referred to as 911 whereas wandering round Sodo. In keeping with close by companies, this isn’t the primary late evening taking pictures at Caravel. The hookah lounge has been a hotbed of late-night drama.
Hmmm… perhaps the mayor’s method is not working: A brand new Seattle Occasions piece ties the surge in Worldwide District neighborhood crime with Mayor Bruce Harrell’s insurance policies to wash up downtown. By prioritizing sweeping and cleansing up seen homelessness downtown, Harrell has pushed individuals on the road elsewhere. Harrell is failing to handle the issue by prioritizing short-term punitive measures, corresponding to growing misdemeanor arrests, as a substitute of offering sufficient shelter or housing. Individuals have left downtown and flocked to locations with out common police patrols or three-times-a-day sidewalk energy washes, like within the ID’s Little Saigon. However at the very least the enterprise house owners within the Downtown Seattle Affiliation are comfortable.
Boat ablaze in Elliott Bay: A 40-foot boat a couple of mile offshore of West Seattle caught hearth on Sunday. A civilian boat rescued the boater from their burning vessel earlier than emergency crews arrived.
A ship goes up in flames in Elliott Bay, one individual rescued https://t.co/bYYtYvvoBM
— KIRO 7 (@KIRO7Seattle) December 9, 2024
Extra layoffs at Boeing: Extra union engineers have been lower at a beleaguered Boeing. In keeping with the web site of the Society of Skilled Engineering Workers in Aerospace (SPEEA), Boeing lower 222 further union staff final week. That is on the heels of slicing 438 different SPEEA roles final month.
Hopefully this one does not die: Talking of Boeing, a still-alive whistleblower lately revealed that 1000’s of “nonconforming” or defective components “go lacking” throughout plane manufacturing. He stated he believed these unhealthy components may very well be on Boeing planes. Greater than 200 whistleblowers have come ahead with stories of mismanagement and sloppy inspections on this no good, very unhealthy 12 months for Boeing. Notably, two Boeing whistleblowers died instantly this 12 months.
HBD: Swanson’s Nursery in north Ballard is celebrating its a centesimal 12 months in enterprise.
Excellent news: It’s going to be sunny immediately.
Sigh: With the information that Tammy Morales is stepping down from the Seattle Metropolis Council, perennial election loser Tanya Woo says she’s “not ruling out” one other shot at a seat on the council.
Syrian rebels topple Assad regime: After greater than 50 years of authoritarian rule by the Assad household in Syria and almost 14 years of civil struggle, a bunch of insurgent forces ousted President Bashar Assad and his authorities in a two-week offensive. As quickly as Damascus fell, rebels rushed to prisons to free the tens of 1000’s of political prisoners and people who vanished for the reason that onset of the civil struggle in 2011. Syrians are celebrating. Roads again into the nation are clogged as refugees make their manner residence. The rebel was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a bunch with ties to al-Qaeda. Nevertheless, the leaders say they’ve lower ties with the extremist group. It’s unclear who will lead Syria and the way the brand new authorities will operate. President Joe Biden referred to as the regime ousting a “elementary act of justice” whereas cautioning that additionally it is “a second of threat.”
Some hope for now:
“Out, out, you’re free, out! Bashar Al Assad has fallen!”
“I want my ID!”
“You don’t want ID, the checkpoints are gone!”
“However I’m from Homs!”
“It’s liberated too!”
Then on the lads’s stage:
“What in regards to the ladies??”
“The ladies are out, don’t fear! The son of a bitch is gone.”
😭 https://t.co/e1JiLLc91U— Lina Mounzer (@warghetti) December 8, 2024
Day 1.
Nobody needs to be a refugee. https://t.co/LcgEMudg9C
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) December 8, 2024
Extra particulars round Syria: Assad fled to long-time ally Russia for asylum. The insurgent forces’ success was partly because of the truth that Assad’s allies Russia, Hezbollah, and Iran had been unfold too skinny and preoccupied with their very own wars with Ukraine and Israel to be of any assist. By no means one to go up a chance for a land seize, Israel seized Syrian-held territory within the wake of the rebel.
In healthcare murderer information: The New York Police Division lastly situated the bag the killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO left in Central Park shortly after the taking pictures. Inside, the cops discovered a Tommy Hilfiger jacket and Monopoly cash. They nonetheless do not know the place this man went or who he’s. Their present lead is that the shooter took a bus out of the town. They’re combing a Central Park lake for the homicide weapon. Web sleuths say they will not attempt to discover the killer. In the meantime, within the good end result of the most recent development, New Yorkers hosted a shooter look-alike contest. Somebody has already penned fan fiction in regards to the shooter.
NOW: “DENY DEFEND DEPOSE” persons are at CEO shooter lookalike competitors in Washington Sq. Park NYC pic.twitter.com/RrU53COTQ5
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) December 7, 2024
Defend and serve? The Broward County Sheriff’s Division whipped up batches of crack cocaine, bought it to individuals, after which arrested them for getting crack cocaine again within the Nineties. Regardless of the Supreme Courtroom ruling the observe interfered with a person’s proper to due course of, an estimated 2,600 should carry the stain of these convictions on their everlasting file. The State Lawyer for Broward County needs to make issues proper and assist individuals clear their names by reaching out to the State Lawyer’s workplace.
Defend and serve! A cop in a parade injured 10 bystanders in Palm Springs, California when he misplaced management of his bike whereas making an attempt to pop a wheelie.
ICYMI: We visited Wellspring Well being Entry, the final full service abortion clinic in Wyoming, and captured a day of affected person care at their oasis in a sea of pink. We noticed an adolescent getting abortion care and lengthy lasting contraception. We noticed a affected person journey 9 hours, throughout state traces, solely to seek out out that they could not get an abortion that day. We noticed protestors and clinic escorts, and took cigarette breaks with employees behind safety gates. It is simple to assume that Wyoming is worlds away from our expertise right here in Washington, however remember about Newport, WA, the place a affected person must journey 250 miles to Yakima to entry abortion care. Abortion deserts are in all places. Try the entire picture essay right here.
A tune on your Monday: I am informed Father John Misty’s latest album is a divorce album. Here is a tune off of it:
