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Rantz: Seattle’s ‘Resistance TV’ pushes another story making criminal illegal immigrant the victim

Aug 4, 2025, 5:30 AM

A shot from the KING 5 studio control room when Jason Rantz was allowed on the station. (Photo: Jas...

A shot from the KING 5 studio control room when Jason Rantz was allowed on the station. (Photo: Jason Rantz/Seattle Red)

(Photo: Jason Rantz/Seattle Red)

If you ever wondered what happened to the 鈥渞esistance,鈥 look no further than KING 5 News. Once the race-obsessed mouthpiece for BLM activists, the station has seamlessly pivoted to become the broadcast arm of the illegal immigrant resistance movement. And their by Sharon Yoo鈥攕oft-pedaling the criminal behavior of a violent felon now facing deportation鈥攊s truly manipulative activist-journalism.

Yoo鈥檚 piece profiles Kimlis Tek, who is currently in ICE custody after serving 15 years in prison. KING 5 frames him as a victim 鈥 a tragic figure caught in the so-called “DOC-to-ICE pipeline,” facing what they call “double punishment.” But here鈥檚 what KING 5 doesn鈥檛 want you to know: Kimlis didn鈥檛 spend 15 years behind bars for jaywalking or merely for “assault,” as Yoo breezily claims. That sanitized phrasing is designed to shield readers from the depravity of his actual crimes.

Is this the same Tek who was for slashing his wife鈥檚 arm with a military-style seven and a half inch knife 鈥 a six inch long wound so deep it severed muscle, left a permanent scar, and required 28 staples and over a month of rehab? But that鈥檚 not all.聽He was also convicted of witness tampering, and violations of a domestic violence no-contact order.

According to court records, he repeatedly pressured the victim to lie, asked her to skip trial, and called her at least 40 times in violation of court orders. The idea that this was simply 鈥渁ssault鈥 is journalistically negligent 鈥 or purposefully deceptive.

KING 5 has become Resistance TV for illegal immigrants

Yoo鈥檚 framing isn鈥檛 accidental. It鈥檚 part of a pattern.

Her previous stories spotlight so-called 鈥渇armworker activists鈥 self-deporting, ICE making arrests in parking lots that supposedly 鈥渢raumatize鈥 communities, and King County passing 鈥渋mmigrant protections鈥 so that even dangerous offenders don鈥檛 face deportation. The unifying thread? Illegal immigrants are always victims. Law enforcement is always the villain. And the crimes? Barely mentioned or downplayed to the point of parody.

In fact, KING 5鈥檚 鈥淔acing Race鈥 series has become the digital megaphone for open-border radicals. They used to gin up outrage over race; now it鈥檚 outrage over ICE daring to do its job by detaining convicted felons. Their messaging is clear: if you鈥檙e in the country illegally and you commit violent crimes, you still shouldn鈥檛 be deported鈥攂ecause somehow that鈥檚 injustice.

This is absurd.

The absurdity of the ‘double punishment’ complaint

Of course someone like Tek Kimlis faces “double punishment.” That鈥檚 how the law works. If you鈥檙e a green card holder or here illegally and you commit violent felonies, you don鈥檛 get to stay. That鈥檚 not some racist policy鈥攊t鈥檚 a basic standard of public safety. Why should a foreign national who slashed his wife with a combat knife and then tried to harass her into silence get a second chance here?

Yoo doesn鈥檛 answer that. She doesn鈥檛 tell viewers the details of Kimlis鈥 conviction. She doesn鈥檛 show the scar. She doesn’t quote the victim,. She certainly doesn鈥檛 explain why a man who made dozens of harassing calls in violation of a court order should be viewed as sympathetic. Instead, viewers are treated to an interview with Kimlis’ weepy relatives, framed to tug at your heartstrings while leaving you in the dark.

This isn鈥檛 journalism. It鈥檚 propaganda. And KING 5 has made it their mission to push this narrative, facts be damned.

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