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  A judge dismisses an ex-Home Depot employee's case about not wearing BLM on uniforms

  The Home Depot's uniform policy bans political or religious messages "unrelated to workplace matters" from employees' aprons, or elsewhere on their clothing.

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  Former Seattle police chief admits deleting texts in wake of 2020 Capitol Hill protest

  Two years ago, the Seattle Police Department abandoned the Capitol Hill East Precinct, leading to the creation of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). At the time, former Police Chief Carmen Best distanced herself from that decision. Whether Best approved the move remains an open question that is difficult to answer due to missing text messages. In a deposition obtained by Axios, Best said she deleted texts she sent during the 2020 protests.
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  9,000 digital art NFTs are being released to raise funds in George Floyd's memory

  In the fight to get justice for his brother's murder, Terrence Floyd has turned to the unlikeliest corners to do just that: NFTs — or non-fungible tokens.

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  KUOW Newsroom

  Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best speaks plainly about being 'Black in Blue' in new book

  Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best started her law enforcement career the same year Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles police officers. She ended her career in 2020, just a few months after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis. And the intervening years were marked with too
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Jenny Durkan on the decision to leave East Precinct, and those missing texts

  Homelessness, economic recovery, policing – these issues don’t wait for an election. They’re being addressed – or not, depending on your perspective – in real time.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Is Black and Asian solidarity possible? These artists say yes

  Inspired by a bold mural by Vietnamese artist Tân Nguyen and Black Seattle artist Moses Sun, KUOW's Kristin Leong saw the potential these communities held if they could come together for a common cause. But that meant overcoming two particularly steep challenges: that a lot of people just don't want to talk about race, and that there is long-standing tension between the Asian and Black communities.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Looking back at Seattle's CHOP, one year later

  It’s been one year since people in Seattle protesting police violence marched to the East Police Precinct - and found Seattle Police all but abandoned the area. What remained was a protest zone that garnered national attention.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  'You are only defeated if you stop fighting'

  Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher of the South Seattle Emerald and columnist for the Seattle Times. He's a Black man who grew up in South Seattle. And he spoke to KUOW's Morning Edition about how this city has changed - after George Floyd was killed but also long before that.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  The Ellis case and Washington's rocky path to independent investigations of police

  Washington State’s Attorney General has taken the unprecedented step of filing murder and manslaughter charges against three police officers, over the death of Manuel Ellis. But champions for Ellis’ case were far from celebratory.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  The murder of George Floyd and the movement that lives on in Seattle one year later

  As the world marks one year since George Floyd's murder, Seattle is preparing for another anniversary: the creation of the CHOP, or the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. Through both events, a familiar voice in the Black community and Seattle Black media emerged as a trusted guide to people around the globe.

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