Talk Radio KVI-AM Seattle morning host John Carlson rallied his audience to help Fund the Seattle Police Department despite the city’s effort to Defund it. After discovering protesters were pointing eye damaging lasers at officers, Carlson made an plea to listeners to help purchase protective eye wear for them.
In just a few short hours, the audience delivered raising more than $50,000 for the cause providing not just a few officers with protective eye wear but ALL SPD officers will now have this vital eye protection.
Seattle Police Foundation President and CEO, Cherie Skager responded to the efforts – “We are grateful to John Carlson, KVI and their generous listeners who showed SPD officers last week that the community has their back during these challenging times. Because of your support, we are able to purchase every single officer at SPD vital safety equipment that will protect their eyes from laser attacks on the protest lines.”
The great news: There are thousands of people in Seattle (and elsewhere in the country) who are having NONE of the **criminal** nonsense of Antifa and the BLM organization, and who strongly support the police and law and order.
The bad news: It is totally outrageous that the officers even need to be provided with this eye protection gear. Any thug who brings harm to a peace officer needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and the longest possible jail or prison sentence should be imposed…with no early release, whatsoever.
Peaceful protest is absolutely encouraged and protected; rioting, looting, property destruction, and assault and battery and murder are felony crimes.
Thank you, KVI, for having the backs of law enforcement. Blue lives matter. All lives matter.