When Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson revealed she did not know the Fred Meyer in Lake City was in danger of shutting down during a news conference last week, a passerby who happened to be a nearby resident challenged her, calling it "a failure that you didn’t know that was going to happen."

"That's an outrageous statement," the passerby, a local resident named Jonathan, said during her press conference. "You should have known better, and this is far too late. I think that's an outrageous statement to make, and that's why I walked over here, and I had to pass drug users. I passed a man with a needle out in his hand."