For those wondering about the police response on the west side of 35th/Avalon – police got a report of a man with “a hatchet” damaging buildings and a utility pole in the area. No word of injuries or threats directly to people. Police converged and have taken a suspect into custody. They told dispatch this may have centered around a bus stop, so they’re notifying Metro Transit Police (who are part of the King County Sheriff’s Office) too
Any news about the police activity Saturday on Avalon, a little downhill from 35th? Four police cars and several cops walking around.
Nobody texted at the time to ask but I looked it up for someone late in the day. A person who shouldn’t have been in their ex-partner’s apartment violated a court order by showing up and threatening them (with a knife, which is why extra police showed up).
And then what? He’ll be out “on his own recognizance” in two minutes and that’ll be all the jail he’ll ever see. Then he’s free to join the others around like the guy with a large machete on his backpack trying out his newly purchased (I can’t even type it with a straight face) brand new bicycle near LA Fitness the other day or the methead who I just saw an hour ago in the Mechanics Bank lot having trouble lighting up his fix on the aluminum foil.
Anyone see that guy cut down the little tree with a hatchet at 35th and Edmunds a few weeks ago ?
My my! A guy is running around with a hatchet or machete hacking at stuff and it seems that everyone is treating this as normal. JUST ANOTHER GUY RUNNING AROUND WITH A HATCHET OR MACHETE!!! Does this sound just a little bit odd to anyone?
Why the hyperbole? Police received reports of potentially dangerous activity. Police responded. Suspect in custody. What would you have expected in this situation?
Calm and dissociated is the only way to carry on in this country. Consider there are more guns than people. One of my neighbors has three assault-type rifles, as of the last time he showed me. At least if you see a guy with an axe you know which way to run.
I have definitely noticed an uptick in folks in the Junction doing their little circuit up and down Alaska with medieval-style weapons. Pipes, baseball bats, knives, etc right in front of the QFC in the middle of the day during the farmers market. It’s very unnerving and I don’t think it’s normal at all. I don’t like walking alone there and now in Admiral Junction as well, after a number of upsetting confrontations by the bus stops from people who were unwell, screaming and lunging at pedestrians, smoking foils and injecting themselves (and stabbing people!) in front of PCC or Circa or Bebop. It’s a wild way to exist, and odd to me that people just ignore it.
This is not the man who might live on 36th just up from Taco Bell. He used to chop Trees in the junction?
Picked up my friend who was on a bus that was attacked by this guy. The driver refused him entry because he was attacking the bus stop structure, then he shattered a bus window, forcing them to stop and re-bus.
People will look at this person as the problem and not society that despises addicts, mentally ill, and homeless as the problem. We are so backwards. Jail does not work for this type of person. And it’s cruel.
I’m sorry, an unhinged person wuth a hatchet is most certainly a problem.
Thankfully the majority of us are not backwards. We actually believe crime doesn’t pay and people must be held accountable for their criminal actions-regardless of their mental status.
I am for helping these people. We spend 100’s of millions on the unhoused and yet still we have so much need. We have the politics but we do not have the programs. Need to get over the fact that some need to be helped against their will. To be incarcerated via the courts to treatment facilities rather than jails to detox, treat both mental and physical and rehabilitate to useful lives. Jobs such as picking up litter and keeping green spaces clean and healthy. But and the big but is we need to intern to help them get better. Otherwise we are just facilitating their drug and mental health status destine to die on the streets.
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