Seattle hires a pimp

Seattle has on its payroll a convicted pimp who once vowed to “go to war” with the city — a $150,000 “street czar” whose mission is to come up with “alternatives to policing,” reports said.

Andre Taylor — who appeared in the documentary “American Pimp” about his life as “Gorgeous Dre” — is getting $12,500 per month for a year, along with an office in Seattle Municipal Tower, according to the contract published by PubliCola.

That comes just a year after his organization, Not This Time, was paid $100,000 to sponsor a speaker series called Conversations with the Streets.

Taylor led one of the first rallies in Seattle after the police-custody death of George Floyd, The Seattle Times reported. He was later accused of trying to get millions from the city for militants who set up the controversial policefree Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone, the outlet said.

“Don’t just leave. Leave with something,” he told activists in a meeting caught on a recording, telling them to demand $2 million to exit the site of much of the city’s worst violence this year, the report said. They ignored his advice, with one saying the money grab felt “off.”

Some of those militants then accused him of betraying them, too, when he appeared at a press conference with the mayor to tell them to shut down CHOP — the same day he was given his six-figure contract, the paper said.

The new street czar justified the contract to KOMO News as payment for his “particular genius in a particular area” — saying he can talk to “gang members, pimps and prostitutes” who “won’t sit down with anybody else.”

Taylor first found notoriety in Las Vegas, where he was sentenced in 2000 to more than five years in prison, the Seattle Times noted.

Some of the girls he pimped for were underage, according to court reports cited by the Las Vegas Sun.