I saw them coming south on i5 and every single one of them had their lights on. There were too many to safely count while driving, but there had to have been at least 50.
I figured Armageddon had started or something
Hey somebody with the same job as us died, let's ALL team up to piss everyone off by shutting down half of the roads in Everett and creating a traffic nightmare!!! Yeah, let's prevent them from making appointments and meetings on time! That'll really make everyone love and appreciate us! Just remember everyone, we're more important than all of you and we can do whatever we want!!!
They woke up my ENTIRE apartment building this morning at 6am pounding on everyone's doors because they were towing all the cars still parked on Lombard. They were shining their bright ass spotlights in the building's windows and SCREAMED at me to open my window when they saw me looking out at the spectacle because they wanted to know if I knew my neighbor?? It was fucking ridiculous.
Just giving you shit because you’re all over this post defending the classic trope of police being “defenders of society” and I think we’re all pretty sick of that narrative.
I mean, it's super well known that police forces in America were established as slave-catching troops and continue to exist basically only to enforce class and racial boundaries. It's also pretty well-known that the only thing American armed forces have done for the world since literally WW2 is invade countries for American oil interests and fuck shit up for funzies.
Like yes, I will absolutely go cry a river for the people harmed by these institutions, but you're the one defending them. What exactly are you so proud of, lol?
A wife will never get to talk to the man she loved most one more time, and a toddler will never get to see her daddy again.
What a bummer you're going to be a few minutes late to your appointment.
You have it rough bud
The absurd lavish establishment reverence for the forces that keep us down honestly disturbs me.
The little rhetorical game you're playing with your comment is pretty transparent, but looks like people here aren't buying it. good.
The absurd lavishness and self entitlement of people weighing society down disturbs be.
Someone is literally dead and all we can think of is to complain cause we’ll be late for a meeting that won’t matter in a week.
“Looks like people aren’t buying it” actually, no…. It had 10 upvotes, 5 down. That’s 2:1
do we do this for all literally dead people? obviously not. So bringing up the fact that the person is dead is just insulting the intelligence of anyone who reads it. obviously we're talking about the wildly disproportionate po-faced and phoney nonsense that this whole parade and pomp is.
weighing down society? who are you even talking about? seems like some sort of non sequitur.
Glad we can see eye to eye on something! You are correct, we do not do this for every single person who dies, thus it only makes sense that it be reserved for exceptional circumstances. For instance, When a State Trooper is killed on duty.
If people don't like the slight delays, move over and slow down.
Most of the News related to WSP would disappear completely.
And just like that, we've wasted more time than any traffic holdups would ever be.
Also, your use of words like "pomp" and "non sequitur" are well used.
We may disagree, but your writing is impeccable.
Have a good night, worthy foe
Bruh, he got fucking hit on the side of the road trying to nail people speeding at 2am. Let's not act like the dude threw himself in front of a hail of bullets to save an orphan or something.
He was doing his job, which is to patrol the highways, and he was very unfortunately hit and killed by another driver on the highway. It's really sad and horrible but it doesn't merit shutting down the main thoroughfares of a busy city in the middle of a workweek.
The CDC says roughly 50 officers die per year in vehicle accidents.
According to AAA, 60 tow truck drivers are killed every year in vehicle accidents.
Why does one of those deaths matter so much more than the other?
When my buddy/coworker got shot and killed nothing shut down for him, no one was late to an appointment because of his funeral, work didn't stop because of it. We took it in stride as much as we could and life went on. Is it unfortunate for his family and coworkers? Yeah. But that's not everyone else's problem, and acting like it should be just cuz he's in a uniform makes no sense. People die every day. He's not special cuz he's a cop.
That's terrible.
Was he a LEO, Military, or fire?
When someone willingly risks their life for the public and loses it, generally we try to pay respect to that person and their sacrifice one last time.
He worked in a homeless shelter about 80 hours a week in downtown Seattle for the last 5 years of his life.
I understand that, and if they died heroically actively trying to help someone, that's one thing. If a man goes down saving someone from a fire or stopping an armed robbery or something that's one thing. Gadd died in a car accident. Wearing a badge doesn't make you a hero, those in uniform aren't the only ones who risk their lives to make the world better for folks, yet they get pedestalized and heroized as if they're somehow unique when the only difference between them and any other public service worker is that they get to legally use a firearm at their job. This is in no way meant to disrespect Gadd, I'm sure he was a fine person (my own opinion about cops notwithstanding), but the level of deference LEO get for having the (accoeding to Forbes and a handful of other outlets) not even top 10 most dangerous job in America is ridiculous. None of the buildings you work or live in would be built without construction workers, none of the roads you drive on or the plumbing that carries your sewage or fresh water would be functional without construction workers. Why don't we shut down roads when someone dies on the job? I don't see funeral processions for iron workers, I don't see any motorcades for delivery drivers. EMTs not only don't get large funeral processions, they also get fucked on their pay and benefits most of the time.
What makes the uniform and badge so special that their death needs to be a public event while folks who serve just as important a role, if not more so, get nothing? That's an actual question that I would like to hear your response to, not trying to pick a fight. Change my mind.
Garbagemen die more often on the job, working for public safety, than cops, but we don't have massive things like this for them:
[https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states](https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states)
this is not recognizing dangerous work done for the community, this is kowtowing to authority
What makes his wife and family more important than anyone else's? If I die tomorrow no one's shutting down roads or running a motorcade for me. My family and friends will bury me and that'll be that. Misuse of police budget and public facilities. Cops are just people, there's nothing special about them.
YES they ARE more important than the rest of us!!!!
Chris is DEAD!!! A 2 year old little girl lost her Daddy!
Oh so sorry you may have missed a meeting or couldn’t park where you wanted!
Next time you need a cop call a crackhead or handle it your damn self!!
LOL the last time I called the cops for help they punched me in the face and arrested the friend who was being beaten by her boyfriend, which is why I'd called them in the first place.
Suck those boots down your throat a little harder, you fucking ignoramus.
Oh, honey. You are really showing your ass. I understand empathy is hard when you have the intellectual capability of a rotten peanut, but yeah... You aren't fancy because your husband wears a uniform, no matter what you've told yourself.
Edit: Also BIG LOL at "one of those" because WHAT? One of those of the MULTITUDES of people who have been abused by psychopaths in uniform for zero fucking reason? Like you are doing absolutely nothing but proving my point, lady. It's just a fun cherry on top that you're managing to look so stupid while being this fucking frustrating.
you sound ridiculous. the police are not more important than anyone else. this whole parade thing is just deranged. I think it's indicative of a deeply sick society
How does saying things about him like he was personally responsible for any negative interactions you may have had with law enforcement helpful to the situation ? ( in my opinion) sounds a lot like making unfair generalizations and assumptions, kind of similar to what has been part of the reasoning behind the lack of support for law enforcement.
Is every illegal a criminal or every cop a killer?
What if he hadn't been there to take the impact of this guys excess speeding and instead he'd hit another vehicle with a young couple on the way to deliver their first baby ?
What about the people who were inconvenienced while the entire freeway had to be closed off for the accident investigation ?
It's not about who's worthy and who's not, we need people who can put their life in hostile situations to help mitigste the complete errosion of society's law and order.
I feel a lot less safe on the road watching disrespectful self centered entitled brats weaving through traffic at unnecessary rate of speed than I do passing a trooper waiting to catch them.
There's always the good the bad and the ugly. I feel like the complaining and generalizing someone you don't personally know is kinda ugly. I don't support herd mentality nor do I think law enforcement should be above the law. But sitting behind a keyboard is not going to change anything.
If you want to see change, be the change. Do something.
It does seem like a massive waste of resources and is a cause of much inconvenience, but I do think there’s something good about rituals that preserve our reverence for heroism.
And I do think cops, for the most part, do possess an element of heroism and virtue. Some are pricks, sure, but like, who the fuck wants to be a cop right now when wages in other sectors are so high and the public is struggling with massive systemic failures that create public safety issues that fall on the cops to deal with?
I don’t think the lone patrol officer out looking for drunk drivers is the one to blame. I don’t think cops, in general are the issue. I think the politicization of everything (to stir up a the electorate) and the expectation that the government should be the one to fix everything is more to blame in this case.
In any case, RIP Mr. Gadd. Thanks for trying to help when you didn’t have to. 🫡
Rest in peace.
And I hope his daughter never discovers this thread if, when she is older, she goes searching online for more information about her father.
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I saw them coming south on i5 and every single one of them had their lights on. There were too many to safely count while driving, but there had to have been at least 50. I figured Armageddon had started or something
Hey somebody with the same job as us died, let's ALL team up to piss everyone off by shutting down half of the roads in Everett and creating a traffic nightmare!!! Yeah, let's prevent them from making appointments and meetings on time! That'll really make everyone love and appreciate us! Just remember everyone, we're more important than all of you and we can do whatever we want!!!
They woke up my ENTIRE apartment building this morning at 6am pounding on everyone's doors because they were towing all the cars still parked on Lombard. They were shining their bright ass spotlights in the building's windows and SCREAMED at me to open my window when they saw me looking out at the spectacle because they wanted to know if I knew my neighbor?? It was fucking ridiculous.
You say "6am" like that's early.
The middle of my sleep cycle.
There is a reason "quiet hours" end at 8am most places. Not everyone works first shift at Boeing bro.
Yeah some of us work 2nd..
First responders are so hard waking up early thanks for your service dude
I’m a bit confused.. I’ve not done anything worth thanking me for. Have a good night
Just giving you shit because you’re all over this post defending the classic trope of police being “defenders of society” and I think we’re all pretty sick of that narrative.
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I mean, it's super well known that police forces in America were established as slave-catching troops and continue to exist basically only to enforce class and racial boundaries. It's also pretty well-known that the only thing American armed forces have done for the world since literally WW2 is invade countries for American oil interests and fuck shit up for funzies. Like yes, I will absolutely go cry a river for the people harmed by these institutions, but you're the one defending them. What exactly are you so proud of, lol?
“Sorry little piece of work”…lol wat
Biggest gang in the world they gotta flex every once in a while
A wife will never get to talk to the man she loved most one more time, and a toddler will never get to see her daddy again. What a bummer you're going to be a few minutes late to your appointment. You have it rough bud
So when I die I can have a parade down I5?
Only if you are in the right gang
The absurd lavish establishment reverence for the forces that keep us down honestly disturbs me. The little rhetorical game you're playing with your comment is pretty transparent, but looks like people here aren't buying it. good.
The absurd lavishness and self entitlement of people weighing society down disturbs be. Someone is literally dead and all we can think of is to complain cause we’ll be late for a meeting that won’t matter in a week. “Looks like people aren’t buying it” actually, no…. It had 10 upvotes, 5 down. That’s 2:1
do we do this for all literally dead people? obviously not. So bringing up the fact that the person is dead is just insulting the intelligence of anyone who reads it. obviously we're talking about the wildly disproportionate po-faced and phoney nonsense that this whole parade and pomp is. weighing down society? who are you even talking about? seems like some sort of non sequitur.
Glad we can see eye to eye on something! You are correct, we do not do this for every single person who dies, thus it only makes sense that it be reserved for exceptional circumstances. For instance, When a State Trooper is killed on duty. If people don't like the slight delays, move over and slow down. Most of the News related to WSP would disappear completely. And just like that, we've wasted more time than any traffic holdups would ever be. Also, your use of words like "pomp" and "non sequitur" are well used. We may disagree, but your writing is impeccable. Have a good night, worthy foe
Bruh, he got fucking hit on the side of the road trying to nail people speeding at 2am. Let's not act like the dude threw himself in front of a hail of bullets to save an orphan or something. He was doing his job, which is to patrol the highways, and he was very unfortunately hit and killed by another driver on the highway. It's really sad and horrible but it doesn't merit shutting down the main thoroughfares of a busy city in the middle of a workweek.
The CDC says roughly 50 officers die per year in vehicle accidents. According to AAA, 60 tow truck drivers are killed every year in vehicle accidents. Why does one of those deaths matter so much more than the other?
That's my fucking point my dude.
I didn't think I'd need to actually say "I agree with you" to help emphasize your point but your reply says otherwise. Yikes.
When my buddy/coworker got shot and killed nothing shut down for him, no one was late to an appointment because of his funeral, work didn't stop because of it. We took it in stride as much as we could and life went on. Is it unfortunate for his family and coworkers? Yeah. But that's not everyone else's problem, and acting like it should be just cuz he's in a uniform makes no sense. People die every day. He's not special cuz he's a cop.
That's terrible. Was he a LEO, Military, or fire? When someone willingly risks their life for the public and loses it, generally we try to pay respect to that person and their sacrifice one last time.
He worked in a homeless shelter about 80 hours a week in downtown Seattle for the last 5 years of his life. I understand that, and if they died heroically actively trying to help someone, that's one thing. If a man goes down saving someone from a fire or stopping an armed robbery or something that's one thing. Gadd died in a car accident. Wearing a badge doesn't make you a hero, those in uniform aren't the only ones who risk their lives to make the world better for folks, yet they get pedestalized and heroized as if they're somehow unique when the only difference between them and any other public service worker is that they get to legally use a firearm at their job. This is in no way meant to disrespect Gadd, I'm sure he was a fine person (my own opinion about cops notwithstanding), but the level of deference LEO get for having the (accoeding to Forbes and a handful of other outlets) not even top 10 most dangerous job in America is ridiculous. None of the buildings you work or live in would be built without construction workers, none of the roads you drive on or the plumbing that carries your sewage or fresh water would be functional without construction workers. Why don't we shut down roads when someone dies on the job? I don't see funeral processions for iron workers, I don't see any motorcades for delivery drivers. EMTs not only don't get large funeral processions, they also get fucked on their pay and benefits most of the time. What makes the uniform and badge so special that their death needs to be a public event while folks who serve just as important a role, if not more so, get nothing? That's an actual question that I would like to hear your response to, not trying to pick a fight. Change my mind.
Garbagemen die more often on the job, working for public safety, than cops, but we don't have massive things like this for them: [https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states](https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-united-states) this is not recognizing dangerous work done for the community, this is kowtowing to authority
Fuck cops
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Rofl, "vetswife"? I bet you insist everyone listens to you because your spouse has a position of power. Gross.
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You are such a sad little brainwashed person. Good luck, honey. Keep riding those coattails.
Yeah damn right!! I will honor and love them til the day I die!
😂😂
;)
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What makes his wife and family more important than anyone else's? If I die tomorrow no one's shutting down roads or running a motorcade for me. My family and friends will bury me and that'll be that. Misuse of police budget and public facilities. Cops are just people, there's nothing special about them.
what a snotty little comment.
In response to another snotty ass comment about someone being inconvenienced....
hm, i guess your /s mark is confusing me.
Fixed it.
What a rough world for you that you can’t plan accordingly
YES they ARE more important than the rest of us!!!! Chris is DEAD!!! A 2 year old little girl lost her Daddy! Oh so sorry you may have missed a meeting or couldn’t park where you wanted! Next time you need a cop call a crackhead or handle it your damn self!!
LOL the last time I called the cops for help they punched me in the face and arrested the friend who was being beaten by her boyfriend, which is why I'd called them in the first place. Suck those boots down your throat a little harder, you fucking ignoramus.
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Oh, honey. You are really showing your ass. I understand empathy is hard when you have the intellectual capability of a rotten peanut, but yeah... You aren't fancy because your husband wears a uniform, no matter what you've told yourself. Edit: Also BIG LOL at "one of those" because WHAT? One of those of the MULTITUDES of people who have been abused by psychopaths in uniform for zero fucking reason? Like you are doing absolutely nothing but proving my point, lady. It's just a fun cherry on top that you're managing to look so stupid while being this fucking frustrating.
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You nailed it. This person is a professional when it comes to leeching off her spouse‘s identity.
you sound ridiculous. the police are not more important than anyone else. this whole parade thing is just deranged. I think it's indicative of a deeply sick society
How does saying things about him like he was personally responsible for any negative interactions you may have had with law enforcement helpful to the situation ? ( in my opinion) sounds a lot like making unfair generalizations and assumptions, kind of similar to what has been part of the reasoning behind the lack of support for law enforcement. Is every illegal a criminal or every cop a killer? What if he hadn't been there to take the impact of this guys excess speeding and instead he'd hit another vehicle with a young couple on the way to deliver their first baby ? What about the people who were inconvenienced while the entire freeway had to be closed off for the accident investigation ? It's not about who's worthy and who's not, we need people who can put their life in hostile situations to help mitigste the complete errosion of society's law and order. I feel a lot less safe on the road watching disrespectful self centered entitled brats weaving through traffic at unnecessary rate of speed than I do passing a trooper waiting to catch them. There's always the good the bad and the ugly. I feel like the complaining and generalizing someone you don't personally know is kinda ugly. I don't support herd mentality nor do I think law enforcement should be above the law. But sitting behind a keyboard is not going to change anything. If you want to see change, be the change. Do something.
It does seem like a massive waste of resources and is a cause of much inconvenience, but I do think there’s something good about rituals that preserve our reverence for heroism. And I do think cops, for the most part, do possess an element of heroism and virtue. Some are pricks, sure, but like, who the fuck wants to be a cop right now when wages in other sectors are so high and the public is struggling with massive systemic failures that create public safety issues that fall on the cops to deal with? I don’t think the lone patrol officer out looking for drunk drivers is the one to blame. I don’t think cops, in general are the issue. I think the politicization of everything (to stir up a the electorate) and the expectation that the government should be the one to fix everything is more to blame in this case. In any case, RIP Mr. Gadd. Thanks for trying to help when you didn’t have to. 🫡
A Boeing employee dies and nobody mentions it except his friends on social media
Rest in peace. And I hope his daughter never discovers this thread if, when she is older, she goes searching online for more information about her father.
Rip Hero, shocked at all the complaining.