Protests

Tensions run high at UW pro-Palestine rally

The University of Washington’s Red Square echoed with hundreds of activists Thursday, chanting, “Free, free, Palestine, within our lifetime.” People climbed the railings of the Suzzallo Library and waved the Palestinian flag. Many held signs reading “Free Palestine.”

Outrage mounts over Seattle police bodycam that shows cop laughing about fatality

While Seattle officials apologized and the Indian Consulate called for a federal investigation, public outrage is mounting in Seattle over video footage that appears to show high-ranking police laughing and joking about a fatal accident that killed a 23-year-old Indian graduate student.

Driver sentenced for 2020 fatal collision with protesters on I-5

Why pickleball fans ended the Seattle Open tournament with a funeral

Student sit-in protests fossil fuel company recruitment at University of Washington

A student group at the University of Washington is calling on the university to prohibit oil, gas, and mining operation companies from recruiting on campus.

Family of 16-year-old killed in CHOP zone alleges Seattle’s failings enabled a 'state-created danger'

The family of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., who was shot and killed amid Seattle's racial justice protests in 2020, filed a tort claim on Monday alleging that city leadership should have recognized its failures to provide legally obligated medical, police, and emergency services to protestors demonstrating in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone.