Secret Service Visits Seattle Activist Amid Political Feud

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SEATTLE, WA — The ongoing feud between progressive Seattle activists and the conservative Safe Seattle Facebook community jumped off the internet and into real life this week.

According to Matt "Spek" Watson, the Secret Service visited his home on Monday to talk about a Facebook post he made referencing President Donald Trump. Watson believes a member of the conservative group Safe Seattle may have called the authorities as retribution.

Watson is one of the most prominent online critics of Safe Seattle and the group's affiliated City Council candidates, especially District 2 candidate Ari Hoffman. In response, Safe Seattle often posts screenshots of social media posts made by Watson and others — including immigration activist Alycia Ramirez, journalist Erica C. Barnett, and Civic Ventures senior fellow David Goldstein — as evidence of extremism on Seattle's left.

Those Safe Seattle posts often have repercussions, like online threats, but federal law enforcement action is entirely new. In a tweet on Monday, Goldstein compared it to "swatting," which is when someone calls police as a prank or to get revenge — sometimes with fatal consequences.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/secret-service-visits-seattle-activist-amid-political-feud/ar-AAD4jyq

[Karadeniz]

1. So the SS must've looked at the posts, which I doubt were advocating hate and violence,

And still decided to confront these people?