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Well, I did think the Tweets were real (shows what a Twit I am...), but real in the sense that I thought real cops were mocking the whole Tweet thing.

Maybe a site that purports to be a news site should focus on news. Gee, what a concept?!
3
Keep the SPD logo until they make you take it down.
Slog is only for parody purposes anyway, right?
4
I voted for Mexican piss.
5
I don't have time to bust open photoshop and get fancy, so someone do up a logo that features a big burly tactical boot, ideally tread-first, as though it is descending towards your face (or perhaps your mexican bladder).
6
Fuck him, leave the logo until there is a warrant.
7
The first few were kind of funny. Quit while you are ahead.
8
it's one thing to mix entertaining and informative material. this bullshit is just further polarizing a community into an "us vs. them", black-and-white war against our police.

I loved the stranger coverage on all of occupy, as well as the recent coverage of the DOJ report--but letting Marley Zeno go trigger happy on SPD satire posts has a pretty debasing effect on whatever integrity you have.
10
I was with you for Santorum, pit bulls, bikes vs. cars vs. pedestrians, Amanda Knox and the self inflicted pain of Mudede.

But this one is pure dick move. There are other ways to poke the powers that be, especially those that have done the heinous things the SPD have done lately. But on this one? You lose.
11
unless your of hispanic descent I would cool it with the term "mexican". I'd like to see you use the M-word in front of my latin friends on the construction site. bigot.
12
@8: Because the SPD repeatedly showing contempt for the people they're supposed to serve and protect hasn't polarized the community at all, huh?
13
I thought maybe someone had hacked the SPD twitter account. I should have known it was just Slog being Slog.
14
Yea. I'm with yulop @7, quit while you're ahead.
15
How about a picture of our favorite Slog editor, Victoria Liss? Maybe an Occupier that is fighting for my rights by blocking traffic and taking over "abandoned" property!
16
Meta.
17
@11, "mexican" is not a slur, it is a nationality. please make a note of it. the m-word? seriously?

and you obviously don't know the story behind the "mexican piss" poll option. do your research.

oh and one more thing, it's "you're," not "your."
18
Yeah, I'm with @2. I only saw the one tweet about helping the pregnant lady across the street with a baton -- was that a reference to the homeless 19-old who was lying about being pregnant? -- but I thought it was some dummy at SPD tweeting it satirically, and that Slog was posting it in anger and moral outrage.

So ... I guess I vote for ... you guys figuring out a better use of your time?
19
Found another John Trouble Williams tweet:

"shit faced yet again. Gonna party like it's 1495 & whittle a tourist. #knife #pikeplace #steinbruekpark #maltliquor"
20
How about a web logger getting knifed by a schizo in the stomach on a bus in the ride free zone while he's creative a satiric post on his ipad decrying all the police injustices?
21
@12 awesome zinger! #truthbomb

honestly, I think I've turned a corner on the SPD since the most recent shit talking they were doing with the injured runner. I used to defend them in conversation and had quite a bit of respect for them. Things change.

I'm not saying we don't need them (we do) but they have certainly opened the doors for ridicule. Mock away, make jokes, these dicks deserve it.
22
the SPD sure seem to have a thin blue skin, what are they?

thug smurfs, Na'vi gone wild, misunderstood blue man group wannabes?
24
Clearly the icon should be a WAAAAAAHMBULANCE!
25
How about all of them used in rotation? You need to add a bunker to the list, though.
26
If the tweets were fake, how do we know that the call really happened? Or the comments are real? Where does it end!? I suggest a small funereal wreath dedicated to everyone's dignity as the icon. I trust the Slog...for entertainment purposes only. Anyway, fooled me for a bit and a few made me laugh hard. How does it feel to be officially designated "satire"?
27
Thanks for your prompt attention in this matter, Dom.
And yes, SPD regularly reads SLOG.
Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, SPD Public Affairs
28
p.s. Dan's Mustache for the icon, plez.
29
@28,

Dan's moustache? How about Diaz'?
30
A picture of John T. Williams.
31
@26... But can we really truly know anything external to the self?
32
@6, a warrant? lolol, not what a warrant is for, but with all of the illegal drugs and paraphernalia scattered around the office in plain view, a very fruitful move by the SPD.
33
Thought they were real. I'm an idiot.
34
I'd suggest a graphic showing a pair of handcuffs overlain with a billy club. It captures the essence of beating someone senseless who's already restrained.
35
@31: Oh please Goldy, integrity is an important relationship with a publication and its readers.
Not only were those fake tweets stupidly juvenile, they push down the interesting posts faster into the collapsed archives. Slog is starting to be less enjoyable.
36
Start your oown police deptartment (SLOG PD - "To troll and project")
37
I don't envy Sean Whitcomb. Being the Seattle PD's PR guy right now must be the hardest job in Seattle.

Well, maybe the 11th hardest job - after Native American woodcarver, black high school student, mentally ill pedestrian, commuting jogger, Mexican bystander, mentally disabled teenager, protesting granny, pacifist priest, unpaid intern walking past 12th & Pine, and mayor who thought his job was going to be about trains.
38
because asking integrity from a weekly rag is so much more important than asking for it from your police force?

coming from the first it would be a gift, such as it were, but coming from the latter it should be a requirement. IMO.

though both should have integrity, ii find it odd those that might castigate the one with more variance, rather than the worse one that should rightfully be held
to a higher standard?
39
They should just license the Rat City Roller Girls logo for the department. Would be appropriate on many levels.
40
Weird, I was going to suggest Dan's moustache too and 28 beat me to it.
41
I vote for steaming pile of dogshit.
42
I thought this satire was excellent. Somewhat because I couldn't tell if it was real at first or not (that's the best kind of satire). Please keep doing the posts and please do not change the SPD logo element. It's effective and is reminding us why the SPD needs to change.
43
I get it, but I feel it's tacky. Totally meh about the whole thing.

With that said, agree 100% with Raku @37.
45
They are pretty dickish, and not even funny, so...
46
Aren't you guys like a block away from the east precinct? I had a run-in with a member of the force on pine and 13th as she almost ran me over trying to park her BMW SUV. I tapped on her hood and gave a WTF shrug as I walked around her gigantic vehicle. Of course, she caught up with me as I stood waiting for the bus and explained to me why I was in the wrong.

She lingered quite a while, waiting for me to escalate the situtation into something she could arrest me over, I'm guessing, as I insisted that she let it go and not be late for work. I could have damaged her vehicle, she insisted, after all. So, watch your backs – these people are fucking nuts.
47
@36 FTW.

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