Seattle News, Views, and Brews
Jul 29, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
Learn about the latest in local public affairs in about the time it takes for a coffee break! Brian Callanan of Seattle Channel and…
Brian CallananHost
I actually picked up my daughter from Seattle Center just an hour and a half before the shooting happened.
what it would have been like if she had stayed at Vita Seattle a little bit longer.
And it was really complicated even further by some communication missteps from the city.
The information that there was a second shooter still at large didn't come out until that later press conference.
David, what was your take on how the city of Seattle handled the communications for this incident?
Yeah, I mean, you know, I got to sort of acknowledge that there is a tension between people wanting information as quickly as possible and at the same time wanting to make sure that that is correct information.
The problem is there's just not you just don't really have the luxury of time, particularly, I mean, on several levels.
For one, there's questions about whether there was still an immediate threat to the public.
And then on a more philosophical existential level, if you don't provide information, it is filled in other ways.
And so it is important to provide people with information as quickly as possible so that A, they can know if there's a danger and B, so that you don't let the vacuum be filled by... misinformation.
I would think that there probably would have been some value in the city and police department, even if they don't know very much.
But but it really was there was a tweet essentially from SPD and then a kind of brief statement from the mayor that turned out to be wrong.
I actually picked up my daughter from Seattle Center just an hour and a half before the shooting happened.
what it would have been like if she had stayed at Vita Seattle a little bit longer.
And it was really complicated even further by some communication missteps from the city.
The information that there was a second shooter still at large didn't come out until that later press conference.
David, what was your take on how the city of Seattle handled the communications for this incident?
Yeah, I mean, you know, I got to sort of acknowledge that there is a tension between people wanting information as quickly as possible and at the same time wanting to make sure that that is correct information.
The problem is there's just not you just don't really have the luxury of time, particularly, I mean, on several levels.
For one, there's questions about whether there was still an immediate threat to the public.
And then on a more philosophical existential level, if you don't provide information, it is filled in other ways.
And so it is important to provide people with information as quickly as possible so that A, they can know if there's a danger and B, so that you don't let the vacuum be filled by... misinformation.
I would think that there probably would have been some value in the city and police department, even if they don't know very much.
But but it really was there was a tweet essentially from SPD and then a kind of brief statement from the mayor that turned out to be wrong.
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