Woke Seattle Police Department mocked for calling shooters trigger-pullers in absurd rebrand effort

Watch out for those knife-thrusters, too!The Seattle Police Department sparked a wave of social media mockery after unveiling a doublespeak euphemism for “shooters” — now opting to formally refer to criminals who commit acts of gun violence as “trigger-pullers.”Interim Seattle Police Chief Andre Sayles soft-launched the woke rebrand during a Monday press conference after a weekend of shootings left three people dead and three others wounded.“We’re working with business owners, increasing patrols, bike patrols, working with our community response group and our gun violence reduction group as well,” he said in response to a reporter asking him to get specific about the “proactive” measures the department is planning to thwart crime in violence-prone areas of the city.Sayles continued that the department is “looking at ways where we can identify individuals known — we call them trigger-pullers — in our community, identifying them, making sure we’re putting cases on those individuals, and working with the King County Prosecutors Office to bring these individuals to justice because the families that lost loved ones throughout this year and in years past deserve justice.”Social media exploded with mockery for the nonsensical softening of the well-established terminology.“Are they doing anything about the shootings themselves or just making sure they don’t overstep boundaries with criminals?” one X user wondered.“You still got shot either way, the word choice didn’t stop it,” another commenter pointed out.One poster chimed in with some additional mock suggestions for renamed criminal acts.“Additionally, they will now refer to cannibals as ‘alternative-protein enthusiasts,’ looters as ‘unlicensed wealth redistributors,’ arsonists as ‘freelance urban-renewal specialists,’ and murderers as ‘life-expectancy adjusters.'”Seattle’s mayor is socialist Katie Wilson, who has already been called out repeatedly for hyper-wo...