Tiras Zennger is a criminal menace among the street urchins
who have turned Seattle’s Westlake
Park into an inhospitable gauntlet for
the rest of Seattle’s
residents.
This photographic sequence shows twenty year old, musician
wannabe, street urchin, Zennger Tiras aka Tiras Zennger, committing criminal
menacing. Menacing is a gross misdemeanor, criminal, violation of Seattle
Municipal Code, SMC 12A.06.030.
What is most important to observe when viewing this sequence
of photographs, is Tiras Zennger’s location in each of them. Instead of looking
at Tiras Zennger, look at his location in each of these photographs, which is
revealed by the locations of the landmarks around him in them. At the beginning
of this photographic series, Zennger was seated at the west edge of Westlake Park, by the water fountain. By the end
of the photographic series, Tiras Zennger had menaced the photographer who took
these pictures all the way to the corner of Pine Street and Fifth Avenue. Zennger continued his
combination of verbal threats of assault, and physical bullying, all the way
around the corner onto Fifth
Avenue. The photographic series ended because the
photographer’s memory card became full at just that moment, forcing the
photographer to retreat into a nearby store, for personal safety, and to change
memory cards. 
Zennger’s location in this photographic series begins with
him seated at the Westlake
Park fountain near the
west edge of the park, “flipping the bird” in the direction of the photographer.
The photographer took the first, second, and third, of these photographs of
Zennger and other people at the fountain, from the east side of the park, using
a telephoto lens, while standing in front of the Sephora cosmetics store.
In the fourth photograph, Tiras Zennger had slipped
unnoticed across the park to its east edge, startled the photographer, and
began making threats of violence. He was too close to the photographer for the
photographer to obtain focus, because the photographer was using a telephoto
lens with a long minimum focus distance.
By the time the fifth photograph in this series was taken,
the photographer had begun to move backwards, north toward Pine Street. By this time Tiras Zennger
was continuing to make threats of violence if the photography continued.
However, the photographer’s recreation was that taking photographs during those
moments was the most important defensive action to take, so that the
photographs could be used later as evidence of his crime.
The sixth photograph clearly shows Tiras Zennger walking
forward while making verbal threats. The position of Zennger’s legs and feet
show with out any doubt that he was walking forward when this sixth photograph
was taken. He gave the impression that he thought he was being clever by not
looking toward the camera. Indeed, a casual observer might mistakenly believe
that he wasn’t paying any attention to the photographer. Nothing could be
further from the truth.
The seventh and eighth photographs of this sequence depict
part of a series of aggressive gestures Tiras Zennger made in between his
verbal threats of violence. In this instance, his aggressive gestures included
slowly moving his baseball cap around on his head.
The background of the ninth photograph in this series
clearly shows the traffic light at the corner of Fifth Avenue behind Tiras Zennger. At
this point Tiras Zennger is no longer even in Westlake Park.
The location of the traffic light and the concrete planters behind Tiras
Zennger, provide irrefutable proof of his location, at the corner Fifth Avenue and Pine Street. This
photograph was taken near the end of over half a block of verbal and physical
threats, as the photographer continually moved backwards in order to maintain
personal safety.
These types of criminal behaviors are not the actions of
either “innocent” or “awesome kids”. Tiras Zennger is a twenty year old legal
adult. He is an adult who doesn’t seem to understand the law. He is an adult
with clearly violent tendencies. Tiras Zennger is part of one of the many
criminal menaces that infest Westlake
Park.
Westlake
Park is currently plagued
by many types of criminal infestation. Westlake Park
has been invaded by pimps such as Michael Gaines and Bruce Brooks, trying to
coax young women into prostitution, underage, child sex trafficking. Westlake Park is beset by violent felon drug
dealers such as Troy Hunter, who are ready to commit assault and/or robbery
upon anyone who might venture into it. The Westlake
Park fountain is often covered with
people loitering on it, like human barnacles, who harass and threaten random
passers by, including Seattle
residents and tourists just trying to walk to and from their hotels.
Tiras Zennger isn’t just some “innocent” homeless kid. Amazingly,
many of the miscreants that loiter in Westlake Park,
day in and day out, are employed. Some are community college students. Many
bring and talk on their working cell phones and play on WiFi connected computer
tablets they’ve brought with them. In fact, Tiras Zennger has internet access
and he has a facebook account. The lie that these miscreant street urchins are
just “innocent kids” is obviously just fraudulent propaganda, intended to fool
the gullible.
