Re: “For safety’s sake, bring city block back to life” (Jan. 14, Opinion) and “Random attack on Seattle woman underscores legal system’s challenges with mental health” (Jan. 15, A1):
As we lament the chaos that President Donald Trump’s second time period is creating in our nation, the situations right here in Seattle deteriorate. Information of the assault on a pedestrian, Jeanette Marken, at Third Avenue and James Road by the King County Courthouse made me cry. I rode the bus downtown a number of instances in December to do analysis at Metropolis Corridor’s Seattle archives. I received off the 24 at Third and Cherry Road and waited at Third and James to board a bus house.
I didn’t know in regards to the assault till I learn the editorial. I, too, was on the road downtown throughout sunlight hours and am in my 70s. It might have been me.
The seemingly unattainable problem of withstanding the Trump administration’s assault on folks is bookended by the mayhem on our streets.
I went to Metropolis Corridor once more just lately. I walked actually quick and had my head “on a turret.” I pray for Jeanette and for the healers at Harborview Medical Heart.
Barbara Downward, Seattle
