Casey Martin
Reporter
About
Casey is a features and daily news reporter at KUOW. Since starting at KUOW he has produced Morning Edition and All Things Considered, announced, produced stories for The Record, and reported for Local Wonder. His story, "The Good, The Bad, The Libre," was a finalist for the 2017 KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race. Casey started in public radio at KBCS Community Radio in Bellevue. He learned how to make radio on a magical island at the Transom Traveling Workshop.
Stories
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Seattle reacts to Chief Carmen Best's exit from the police department
Chief Carmen Best will leave the Seattle Police Department on September 2, after nearly 30 years of service in the city. She is the city's first Black female police chief. Her decision to leave comes as a shock, both to some of her longtime supporters and sharpest critics. It also comes amid tensions between the City Council, city leaders, and ongoing protests for racial justice.
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KUOW Newsroom
'What Summer set their mind to do, Summer did.' Family of killed protester speaks out
Summer Taylor was killed early Saturday when a person drove their car into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters on Interstate 5 near downtown Seattle. Taylor’s family says Summer was a determined, passionate supporter of the movement and want Summer to be remembered as an ally of Black lives.
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KUOW Newsroom
24-year-old protester Summer Taylor dies after being hit by speeding car on I-5
Two people are in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center after a Seattle man drove his car into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters on I-5 late Friday night.
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KUOW Newsroom
UW frat brother's advice amid Covid-19 outbreak: 'Please don't party'
Fran Dukic has some advice for University of Washington students living in fraternities and sororities: "Please don't party. You can wait. you can wait."
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KUOW Newsroom
A second teen is dead in CHOP shooting. ‘Enough is enough,’ says Seattle Police chief
Protesters say they are not causing the violence and that they’ll stay.
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KUOW Newsroom
1 teen dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Seattle's CHOP
One man is dead and another in critical condition after a shooting early Monday morning in Capitol Hill Organized Protest Zone.
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KUOW Newsroom
Second shooting at night contrasts with Seattle's CHOP by day
Gunfire on Seattle’s Capitol Hill left a 17-year-old youth wounded Sunday night -- the second shooting over the weekend in or near CHOP, the area that’s been a focus of protests over racial injustice.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
Dispatches from CHAZ, Seattle's new autonomous zone
For 10 nights, Seattle police faced off with protesters on Capitol Hill in Seattle. As one, cops formed a thick wall protecting the East Precinct.
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The Record
The ballad of the 8th Precinct
"You have the riot to remain heard."
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KUOW Newsroom
Looking back at one week of protesting in Seattle
KUOW Reporters Casey Martin and Esmy Jimenez discuss protests in Seattle that have lasted one week so far. The protests are among a range of demonstrations that have swept the country, and the globe, opposing police brutality and killings of Black people.