He was still thinking about it a few months after CHOP ended.

If a officer witnessed 30 Proud Boys, you know what I'm saying, or 30 unidentifiable people with firearms going through downtown Seattle, I said, "I wanna see the body camera footage that aligns with this radio call right here."

This triggered an investigation by Seattle's Office of Police Accountability, and the agency concluded that police officers made it all up.

This lie right here, this literally was a lie that went around the world.

What are you hearing, and what is your reaction to the resignation of Chief Barnes?

Yeah, Brian, you know, I think that the, the resignation of Chief Barnes has, uh, well, it's definitely sparked conversation about what's going on at City Hall, which is always great because sometimes we put things on autopilot when it comes to City Hall.

There's a lot of people in Seattle's Black community, not everybody of course, but it's a lot of people who do feel some kind of way, that feel that the firing of Chief Barnes was unwarranted, and I mean, the biggest thing is when people are l- looking back, hindsight's always 20/20, but when-

Yep.

And, uh, even at the press conference, the mayor said, like, basically, "Look, I'm the, I'm the...

I run this city.

I'm the, I'm the CEO.

And yeah, I, I see things other people don't see." Well, I mean, how, how much of a problem might it have been once you saw that to convene the, you know, council members behind closed doors or one-on-one and say, "Hey, you know what? This is coming down the pipe.

When was this? Where were you in the city?

So I mean, here's the thing is, and I was really in a great mood.

This was Saturday, and I was leaving Judkins Playfield, and it was the Little League Jamboree.

They had all the Black teams, uh, team names, the Steelheads and the, the Owls and the Crop Birds and everything, and I'm sitting there taking pictures.

You know what I'm saying? So, you know, I'm a big baseball guy, so this was great.

Little League Jamboree.

I just go four blocks.

What is their obligation to know our history, to know the responsibility they hold to not paper over us, to not erase us?