Back in WSB’s early months in 2007-2008, a comment controversy centered on the repeated rapid removal of once-tolerated banners hung on the foot/bike overpass over the southwest end of the West Seattle Bridge. The person or persons dubbed the “Banner Police” had no mercy, removing even the simplest, cheeriest of signs. Yes, banner-hanging was against city law, and eventually people stopped trying. When they did try, removal was again usually rapid. But not today:
CJ sent that photo,saying that banner (basically Spanish for a phrase seen often in English at protests these days, “F— ICE”) was up for at least six hours – they reported seeing it inbound and outbound, at 8 am and 2 pm. Or maybe at least eight hours – another reader later texted a photo taken 4 pm-ish, showing someone taking it down – whether removing it to reclaim it or removing it to dispose of it, no way to know. (Here are related city rules, by the way.)
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