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  Fake SPD radio transmissions during 2020 protests ‘added fuel to the fire’

  ‘If there's anything else out there around the Seattle protests, let's get it out. Let’s get to the rock bottom of what happened, and that rock bottom is also a good place to build a new foundation.’
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  Seattle’s Carmen Best is being considered for NY police commissioner job

  The New York Times is reporting former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best is on the short list of candidates for police commissioner at the New York Police Department.
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  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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  ‘That’s their individual choice’: Seattle mayor on officers who defy vaccine mandate

  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says she's hopeful those unvaccinated Seattle police officers will come around. And if they don't: "That's their individual choice."
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  Seattle Police evacuation of East Precinct broke no laws or policy, oversight agency says

  On June 8, 2020, protesters outside of Seattle Police’s East Precinct saw officers and staff evacuating the building. At the time, it wasn’t clear who made the call to pull out, and blame for the decision was leveled against former police chief Carmen Best and other ranking officers.

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  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says City Council bill restricting crowd-control tactics 'doesn't change anything'

  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says she wants to improve policing in the city, but City Council members recently overstepped some legal boundaries to do so.
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  Seattle police chief fires two officers for actions at Capitol riots

  A Seattle man pleaded guilty Friday to assaulting police at the January 6 riot and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Meanwhile, Seattle also fired two of its own police officers who were found to be in attendance.

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  We know who made the call to leave Seattle Police’s East Precinct last summer, finally

  Recall June 2020. George Floyd has been murdered by police in Minneapolis, and the video of his death is so shocking that people across the nation pour onto the streets in protest. In Seattle, demonstrators face off with police at their outpost in the freewheeling Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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  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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  Durkan: Downtown Seattle is 'absolutely central' to the city's recovery

  Vaccinating 70 percent of Seattle's adults is just one of numerous issues caused or exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Among Mayor Jenny Durkan's core concerns: the future of downtown Seattle.

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