Threats Against Blog/Page Authors

One of the types of responses generated by writing here about the anti-social crimes, violent crimes, and other unseemly activities, that occur in Westlake Park, (and throughout much of downtown Seattle’s core), has been threats of assault, stabbing, and even death, against the authors of these pages. Such threats seem like persuasive evidence that the people committing such crimes in Westlake Park don’t want attention brought to their criminal activities. This unseemly element has also made it clear that they have “friends” and “supporters”, who are willing to act as shills and mouthpieces for the sentiments of this unseemly element.

Instead of making the threats directly, some of these people have structured their threats in terms that other people would actually carry them out. For example, some character named Zac Crew posted a threatening comment which included claims that the subjects of these pages could track down the authors of these pages and kill them. His statement in that regard ended with the phrase, “… they could track you down and kill you within hours”. The entirety of his comment ended with the phrase, “… delete this page, before this page gets you deleted”, where the word “deleted” at the end was meant to be a clever euphemism for getting killed/murdered by the people who are the subjects of these pages. Another example of the many instances of these sorts of threats is available in the redacted screenshot of the epithet filled private message sent to one of facebook pages that mirrors this site, by a woman named Christianna Pearson. She ended her message with the odd third person phrase, “I hope she gets stabbed”. These misguided people seem to mistakenly believe that threats and intimidation are an effective method for expressing themselves. They are not. As a result though, commenting privileges for all such people get disabled.

Notably, these pages aren’t the only place where people around Seattle are bringing attention to the anti-social problems that plague downtown Seattle, including areas like Westlake Park. For example, on October 8, 2012, the Seattle Times published an article about a new initiative by the Seattle Convention and Visitor’s Bureau called “See It, Send It”. The “See It, Send It” campaign encourages people to send photographs and descriptions of criminal activities in the downtown Seattle area to elected government officials. The article included quotations from David Watkins, manager of a hotel at Pike Place Market, about the problems that exist in the downtown core business area. Watkins noted, “open air drug dealing, kids with pit bulls, aggressive panhandling, and other disturbing behavior”, in his description of the types of problems that have made many people consider downtown Seattle an unwelcome and unsafe place.

The Seattle Times article also mentions that, in addition to the familiar types of anti-crime statutes and ordinances that most municipalities have implemented, about ten years ago, Seattle’s government created an ordinance intended to criminalize various types of vagrant activity. It is Seattle Municipal Code anti-crime ordinance, SMC 12A12.015, Pedestrian Interference. The SMC 12A12.015 ordinance makes “intimidation”, “aggressive begging”, obstructing a sidewalk, and other similar activities, a misdemeanor crime within the City of Seattle. It turns out that city parks, such as Westlake Park, are NOT excluded from the ordinance. In fact the ordinance specifically includes city parks within its definition of locations considered “public places” where people can be arrested and charged with violation of SMC 12A12.015.

So, it seems that these pages are not at all the only place where attention is being brought to the anti-social, public disorder, drug related, and violent, crime problems that exist in downtown Seattle. It seems doubtful though, that the people making threats here would make similar threats to the authors of articles in publications such as the Seattle Times.

Tiras Zennger, Committing Criminal Menacing ...

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.

The Seattle Police Pinched Westlake Park Pimps

According to the Associated Press news story at the link below, the Westlake Park pimps were busy this past summer. The August 29, 2012 story at the link below describes how a group of undercover Seattle Police officers performed a prostitution sting at Westlake Park and consequently arrested two of that infested area's pimps. According to the news story, two of the Seattle Police officers posed as seventeen (17) year old girls. Two men there, apparently pimps, tried to recruit the undercover officers into prostitution with promises of renting them hotel rooms. In exchange, the suspected pimps were going to teach them how to haggle with johns over services and prices. The Seattle Police arrested the two men, Michael Deshawn Gaines and Bruce Jerome Brooks, for attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Under Washington statute RCW 9.68A.100, commercial sexual abuse of a minor is a Class B felony, the second worst type of crime within the Washington state criminal statutes. The county prosecutor’s office has charged both men and both remain in jail, unable to post very high bail. The prosecution of Brooks is King County Superior Court case number 12-1-04673-1. The prosecution of Gaines is King County Superior Court case number 12-1-04674-0.

This is the real Westlake Park.

These are the real arrests and prosecutions.

These are just a few examples of the multitude of criminal elements that infest Westlake Park and the surrounding area to its west. Whether it is some of the urchins menacing and harassing passers by or selling marijuana, pimps trying to recruit prostitutes, convicted drug dealers like Troy Hunter committing assault and attempted robbery, the arrests and convictions of the people the Seattle Police are able to catch in the midst of the nearly continuous, ongoing crimes in Westlake Park, provide an irrefutable truth.

Seattle Police Arrests Westlake Park Pimps

Pimping Attempt Turns Sour ...