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Today Mayor Katie Wilson announced she’s already fired Seattle’s next police chief after he somehow teargassed Capitol Hill, deleted public records, hired someone to have an affair on the job with, and threatened to fight a reporter all before 9 a.m.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

All these allegations are really a coverup for Interim Police Chief Andre Sayles's real crime of referring to Pike Place Market as the location of "the first Starbucks".

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought the punishment for that was straight to jail?

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's if you call it Pike's Place.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nope, you get "limed," which is when someone ties your shoelaces to a lime bike and tosses you into the sound.

The Seattle lime reefs are coming along nicely, although the local sea life is apparently a bit "zappy" from the close proximity to the batteries.