Lewis Arthur has been on the run from Pima County law enforcement for 3 years for destroying migrant watering stations in the Arizona desert. Now he’s in Spokane claiming to be helping unhoused youth. Monday, he doxxed the entire city council & said he’s going to their homes.
Lewis Arthur, wearing a "Half Hood Half Holy" tee, testifies at a Spokane City Council Meeting. Photo illustration by Erin Sellers.
Lewis Arthur is not shy about saying what he wants or what he’s willing to do to get it.
What he wants, he recently told the city council of Washtucna, is for cities to allow him to patrol homeless encampments in an extrajudicial role, stopping sex trafficking. Veterans on Patrol volunteers said they were there trying to make a bucolic home for unhoused people at a “compound” of old buildings. He’s been doing similar work across the Inland Northwest and has been sleeping on the streets of Spokane for the last two months.
“I want your forgiveness for what I'm going to do in your city and to your homes, because we're going to bring the problem to your homes now,” Arthur informed the Spokane city council at its regular session June 24. “ I'm bringing the problem to your doors.”
At a demonstration last week to honor Alex Pretti, protesters thought two men were ICE officers. They called the local cops, and the pair turned out to be Spokane police.
As rumors swirling online stoke fear about the re-issuance of the Essential Services letter, USPS leaves Spokane and national postal workers in the dark.
GEO Transit, which carts immigrants from Spokane to Tacoma for deportation, had its lawyer call the requester to make sure ‘you’re not gonna hurt my peeps.’
As rumors swirling online stoke fear about the re-issuance of the Essential Services letter, USPS leaves Spokane and national postal workers in the dark.
As lawmakers debate how to rein in these cameras, sheriffs, civil rights groups and transparency advocates are clashing over how much access is too much
