Burien councilmember confronts homeless campers outside her home | FOX 13 Seattle

[@redburban1394]

Maybe the homeless community should be camping in front of the Mayor’s home? Then you will see how quickly somethings are done.

[@caracoates4834]

Well maybe if elected politicians have to deal with it out their front door they will do something.

[@tymcfadden8496]

Maybe if we as a society would provide actual affordable housing instead of telling poor people what they HAVE to afford we could get something accomplished. 1500 a month and up is NOT affordable for a lot of people.

[@mongoose406]

​@tymcfadden8496 especially people who are on drugs everyday and won't go to work. Even if it is more affordable than now .. how will they pay the rent and the bills that come with it, and keep it clean and maintained?

[@tymcfadden8496]

@se406 do you have any idea how hard society works to keep people who are down from ever rising back up again? It's like people like you NEED to have someone to look down on, maybe so you can feel better about yourself.

[@mongoose406]

@@tymcfadden8496 Well if I chose to be on drugs I could be in the same place. Doing drugs is a personal choice just like going to work is a personal choice. I don't look down.on these people that make that choice but I certainly don't look up to them. You should buy an apartment complex and house them all for free would be a great resolution. 👍

[@clydedenby1436]

As long as it isn't in THEIR neighborhood, they don't care.

[@I-canMakeTheGlobeShift]

EXACTLY!!

[@lauranydb7979]

I care alot, but the hoarders of money need to pay a homeless tax, and laws need to be passed on the real estate magnate companies that are responsible for raising rents to oblivion. Housing needs to be built quickly, and old vacant buildings should be renovated.

[@PoliceMisconduct-wf2kk]

Sue the State of WA, City of Burien, Leaders that have encouraged homelessness and CHAOS ,should any citizen be harmed as a result of the leaders policies/ laws.

[@moirai1964]

She has a right to be angry over homeless tresspass. Look at drugs and garbage as well as bring danger to her home. Confronting for Tresspass after homeowner has done so without result is now in the police business. I'd sue if nothing was done. Many time offers of help are ignored because the homeless want to do drugs without interference from landlords or managers. Usually reason they were evicted in first place beside nonpayment. Make it a crime, make it a jail requirement to work on city cleanup during the day while locked up night.

[@autiebell1357]

EVERY Politician including Inslee should have Homeless all around their homes and families.

[@deplorablechump8758]

I recommend the homeless community goes camping in front of the capital in Olympia to demand Gov. Inslee to share his mansion with them.

[@tymcfadden8496]

I recommend we as a society get real about what affordable housing actually is.

[@deplorablechump8758]

@@tymcfadden8496 Nothing affordable than getting freebies from your and my tax money.

[@jimster1577]

Burien has been terrible for decades. Don't move to where the crime is, then complain.

[@katreevisburgos4359]

You got that right!👍

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

Yeah, it sucks it when people try to make neighborhoods livable for young mothers and children!

[@xlukyn]

Seems like it’s time to find a new Mayor. 😂

[@orbscorbs]

The major "complexity" is drug addiction.

[@myohmy7368]

Homeless are entitled and filled with hate. I refuse the bullying and their sickening entitlement.

[@orcasea59]

If you had people defecating into paper cups and throwing them out onto the sidewalk outside your home you'd be mad, too.

[@JH-bb5ne]

So Fox13 trying vilify the council member? Seems like Fox13 was trying to convey a particular perspective on the situation.

[@jasperstromy2778]

Why would she have regrets....stupid question

[@queenzeepiggrahh8641]

Dave Reichart for governor 2024

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

Good to see her standing up to these bullies.

[@tymcfadden8496]

by being a bully?

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

@@tymcfadden8496 Setting this trash straight is what I'm thinking. The patriarch is over. Get used to it.

[@TRUTHRULES777]

Oh, and by the way, very sad for our homeless and drug abuse issues all over the streets in many places in the United States. And now with the border open, it’s only going to become worse in any sanctuary cities. A very sad situation all the way around but if you want a little bit more peace, take it to your Vote. It would be nice also if many of these cities all around the USA would do something and help as much as they can drug addicts and people that are having mental issues stop the revolving door let’s get them some true help.

[@SoundofSilence492]

People have to want to help themselves. The chronically homeless don’t want it. Multiple programs around the country that have tried to help them have failed. Closing the borders would be a good first step. But you can’t fix someone that doesn’t want to be fixed. They’ll find another drug.

[@jimster1577]

You think REPUBLICANS will fund programs to help the homeless?

[@467076]

Dude, these people are not getting help if democrats are in charge or republicans. Democrats will just pocket some and then waste tax payer money on these people who will never want or get help. Stop voting blue.

[@katreevisburgos4359]

Finally someone with some good answers! Maybe they need to vote in these people that actually get things done and help these homeless drug users!

[@tymcfadden8496]

love how you call yourself "truthrules" while you lie thru your teeth.

[@michaelmelton7295]

TRUMP!!! 2024!!!

[@UTFT777]

Rules for thee, not for me.

[@BeyondPC]

😅 Trespass them yourself. That implies deputization. Seems we gotta 'round up the posse' instead of calling the cops. Wild West it is then; what should we carry AR's or Revolvers? Maybe it's not an either or it's both?

[@thomaschalcraft460]

The mayor said in other words I'm backstabbing you big time

[@mikeg3728]

camping in front of her home. Where are her voters saying "how DARE you".

[@spiritualacts6357]

The government can be sued by the homeless people for mind endangerment and not protecting the people with safety and causing harm.

[@dansimmons999]

Recently one of the homeless that choose to camp here instructed by cydney moore has died after she insisted they move in front of the Burien city hall/library again in tents she helped to supply. This woman is out for greed, power and money and is using the homeless for her own agenda, not to solve a problem but to be the face of the attention. Here are some words from a professional that has followed the issue: "The people who facilitated the vagrant people sleeping on Burien streets, now have direct blood on their hands." "They can not rationalize this blood away." "Like Lady Macbeth, a little water will not clear them of this deed." "If this deceased person had been in a bona fide shelter, they would have received medical intervention, whether their death was from drug overdose or normal illness. " "Instead they are now dead, so that the people who facilitated their living on the streets can promote their own demented agenda." "I believe it is a probable hypothesis, the agenda for these supposedly “compassionate” individuals (who motivated these people to camp on the streets) is self-promotion, self-aggrandizement, fame and very likely the pursuit of personal, tangible secondary gains." "These secondary gains take the form of power, publicity and money from donated funds, which they themselves can control as they choose, via their so-called non-profit agencies." "The only answer for the amelioration of mental illness and drug/alcohol abuse is TREATMENT. Living on the streets is a sure death sentence." "Sincerely, Michael A. Gallo Doctor of Psychology"

[@Eric_Tennant]

If she voted blue then I hope more come to her doorstep.

[@brentw9612]

It's not complex. Tents dont belong.

[@superhyrulean]

Hm,weird. I heard it was in front of city hall.

[@GinaRobbins-by1qh]

Linda Akey can move out of condo, not confront mental illnesses patient. Arguing and not showing compassion to homeless is disturbing, not very good as public leadership.

[@kathleenardrey5094]

Why should a person who works and has a home have to move because of a cra-cra-crazy loser? Explain.

[@maddydog1234]

Why should she have to move from the home that she paid for, when the people that she is concerned about are engaging in unsafe behaviors? So by that logic, everyone should just be allowed to live wherever they want and do whatever they want? No rules to society? No standards of safety and public health?

[@NekoNebula1313]

Be careful they might attack you

[@lauranydb7979]

Please stop camping on sidewalks. We pay lots of taxes to build and maintain those for working people and tourists. There are woods a few miles out.

[@humble-l2x]

Backlash is what you get for trying to restore your community

[@mishaladara]

I guess we're going to have to hire more security guards said nobody

[@TRUTHRULES777]

If you want change, you have to vote differently. It’s time to vote red. This area is pretty much similar to San Francisco area and many other places LA Portland. If you want change, you have to vote differently.

[@captaincapitalism264]

Yep. Too many King County voters have been "voting blue, no matter who" for 25 years now -- and not connecting the dots to these escalating problems.

[@467076]

This is hilarious 😂these people are to stupid to realize that. Dude we have homeless people inside the UW campus. I pay 12k a year to encounter homeless on a daily 😂

[@RedWork55501]

Um... if you think these addicts which some of them i know from the past which were addicts as teens and they featured on Choshow... they are not trying to survive... what they actually want is to go to jail and get tough love, but you all stopped giving it to them, and now enable them, good job letting the homeless harm them selves until they pass from their addictions

[@RedWork55501]

And givnig addicts housing just so they can OD in their little house, and no one will save them because no one can see them hunched over inside their little house, so if you can understand what im trying to say... basically assisted self harm housing.

[@hwksfn]

Hilarious situation 🤣

[@skimmingstone3energyrecords]

Very heartlessness.

[@Eric_Tennant]

Your so woke

[@skimmingstone3energyrecords]

What does woke mean?

[@Eric_Tennant]

@@skimmingstone3energyrecords past of wake

[@Eric_Tennant]

@@skimmingstone3energyrecords but in your case it's. Woke: Letting your feelings dictate your better judgment at a cost of society.

[@maddydog1234]

So, people can live wherever they want and do whatever they want? Even if it’s putting others at risk? It’s not heartless to speak up for what is right.

[@nelsoncooper1372]

Don't mess with her and her husband comfortability. Go squatt on some one else property 😅🤣😂🤣😂

[@nelsoncooper1372]

A city council woman to help out homeless. 😅🤣😂🤣😂🥱 You can't separate a homeowner and a city council member with this problem. She is insensitive and a liar 😮😮😮 charge her for assault 😡

[@captaincapitalism264]

Don't mess with the rule of law...there, fixed it for ya.

[@Ppoorespect888]

WA is just hopeless in general

[@Ceezy223.]

What a bigot.

[@Dan-t9v6p]

Glad you got em Linda

[@HumbertoJimenez-f6o]

She should get fired immediately. Poverty is not disgrace, but it is certainly not a recommendation.

[@michelleburkholder2547]

Karen

[@ChandelEbony252]

I see nothing wrong here. They should not be there whatsoever and they be doing things that are destructive.

[@kikacruz4560]

Trump

[@katreevisburgos4359]

She needs to step down! She’s lying!

[@Dan-t9v6p]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@JJGreive]

What a SOFTBALL report, Councilwoman Akey threatened her saying "lets do it" 2:44 (. kzbin.info/www/bejne/inmwc4CVrsyChqMsi=Dm9PVcWy4ecno7oh&t=156) of the original recording. Lets do it? is she picking a fight? A council woman? what an embarrassment to the city. She claims "I have authority" 0.25 seconds into the video. As her husband blows smoke in the face of a homeless man. kzbin.info/www/bejne/inmwc4CVrsyChqMsi=NcxnfQMttkFokUDG&t=203 she only fakes compassion, her actions speak volumes.

[@copyprint-fz2hb]

Vote Blue , we care

[@clydedenby1436]

Sarcasm is a skill.

[@Jason-jc8ro]

MARK THESE WORDS!!!

[@MPLSDaily]

What a thug … help the people

[@Jason-jc8ro]

NONE OF YOU ARE ABOVE OR BETTER THAN THE HOMELESS. IN THE END, YOU WILL STAND NEXT TO THEM, TAKING NOTHING FROM THIS EARTH, EQUALLY HOPING NOT TO BE THROWN IN HELL

[@maddydog1234]

I don’t think the issue is that people think they are better than them. The issue is with safety and public health.