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Seattleites reported hundreds of bias incidents and hate crimes last year. A small fraction made it to court.

Let’s start at the beginning of a case.
- Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Missing and murdered indigenous women get spotlight: Washington task force to examine data

Washington is one of a handful of states with a task force on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The group held its first meeting this week.
- Amy Radil
Private immigrant prison in Tacoma must now pay working detainees minimum wage

A federal jury ruled this week that GEO Group, the company that runs the Northwest ICE Processing Center for immigrants, must pay working detainees the state’s minimum wage. Thousands of past detainees are eligible for back pay in a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit.
- Casey Martin
Attorney general files criminal charges against Pierce County sheriff

Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer has been charged with two misdemeanors by the Washington state Attorney General.
- Paige Browning
Stark differences on crime electrify race for Seattle city attorney

The normally uncontroversial race for Seattle city attorney has been an eventful one this year. The two candidates, Ann Davison and Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, have outlined dramatically different priorities for the city attorney’s civil and criminal efforts.
- Amy Radil
Officials demand answers after apparent sabotage of oil train

Some legislators are calling for action in the wake of a federal report on the apparent sabotage of an oil train north of Bellingham last year.
- John Ryan
Seattle City Council will spend extra police salaries on community groups, not hiring bonuses

The Seattle Police Department says it has a $15 million surplus in police salaries after hundreds of officers left the department in recent months.
- Casey Martin
King County considers hate crime hotline amid rise in racist attacks

King County is one step closer to creating a phone and web hotline for residents to report hate crimes and bias incidents. The proposed legislation, put forward by the King County Council's Law and Justice Committee Tuesday morning, will go before the council at-large in the coming weeks.
- Liz Brazile
Seattle 'vaccine' peddler pleads guilty to federal drug misbranding charges

Johnny T. Stine, a microbiologist who claimed in 2020 to have created a coronavirus "vaccine" in half a day, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce. Stine had publicly admitted to injecting an undisclosed number of people with the substance.
- Liz Brazile
Redmond man gets 3 years in federal prison for neo-Nazi plot to intimidate journalists, activists

A Redmon man was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to conspiracy and hate crime charges for his role in a neo-Nazi plot to terrorize journalists and activists whose work uncovered anti-Semitic hate. Cameron Shea, 25, is described in federal court documents as “a high-level member and primary recruiter for the Atomwaffen Division” and one of two ringleaders in the conspiracy to
- Liz Brazile

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