One Seattle official is refusing calls for to resign after a tense committee listening to regarding the nomination of a convicted intercourse offender to a Seattle homelessness board resulted in her shouting at a involved citizen.
The incident occurred throughout a Could 3 Zoom assembly of a subcommittee of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) when Marine veteran and sexual assault survivor Kristina Sawyckyj claimed the nominated intercourse offender, Thomas Whitaker-Raven Crowfoot, “touched” her on a earlier event.
“We now have a code of ethics on this board and Thomas Whitaker-Raven Crowfoot is a intercourse offender — repeat intercourse offender — and I’ve had a foul expertise with him,” Sawyckyj stated.
Then, committee co-chair Shanee Colston angrily jumped to defend Whitaker and scolded Sawyckyj for utilizing the assembly to “out” somebody regardless of the previous convictions being public information.
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Thomas Whitaker-Raven Crowfoot, a convicted intercourse offender, was nominated to hitch a Seattle homelessness board. (King County Sherriff’s Workplace)
“That’s simply not okay, in any respect. I received’t stand for that as a co-chair. We’re not right here to find individuals’s backgrounds,” Colston yelled, as Sawyckyj appeared to try to change the topic.
Colston interrupted Sawyckyj, saying: “And I’m truly glad that’s the case that he’s right here as a result of sex offenders are one other inhabitants that’s most susceptible that don’t have housing. Folks do change.”
One other board member jumped in, agreeing with Colston and asking Sawyckyj if she had taken the difficulty to the police, to which she stated she had.
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Colston, nonetheless, continued laying into Sawyckyj, saying: “Because the co-chair, I’m telling you that you simply can not discuss like that on this assembly. I can’t have that right here. If anybody needs to speak like that you’ll be muted and faraway from this board assembly.”
“That is about fairness and everybody, everybody, deserves housing. I don’t care in the event that they’re a intercourse offender. I don’t care in the event that they’re Black. I don’t care in the event that they’re indigenous. I don’t care in the event that they’re a legal. I don’t care in the event that they’re popping out of jail or jail. Everybody deserves housing,” she continued.
In response to the King County Sheriff’s Workplace, Whitaker is a registered intercourse offender with two offenses described as “communication with minors for immoral functions.”
KCRHA Chief Program Officer Peter Lynn appealed unsuccessfully for Colston to resign from the subcommittee this week, based on native affiliate KOMO-TV.
In a press release, KCRHA stated it “shares the considerations of our group concerning the nomination of a registered intercourse offender for the Continuum of Care Board, and doesn’t assist that nomination” of Whitaker to the board.
The assertion additionally blasted Colston’s conduct towards Sawyckyj.
The House Needle and Mount Rainier are seen on the skyline of Seattle, Washington, on Feb. 11, 2017. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)
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“We agree that the conduct by the present Board Co-Chair in shouting down the board member who recognized that the nominee is a registered intercourse offender was unacceptable, and we instantly requested the Co-Chair to resign,” it stated.
Colston continues to oppose resignation requests.