Tonight, unanimously, Seattle City Council voted to ban: use of tear gas and other “crowd control weapons”, use of choke holds; and covering of badge numbers with the so-called “mourning bands”...
In the fight for justice, dancers artists and MC’s join together to create a visual arts film focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. Through creative expression this film is an artistic response to systematic oppression and police brutality.
4-page policy released today outlines presumptively declining to prosecute most lower-level charges, and taking tumultuous circumstances into account for most higher charges. The new DA is an ally who acknowledges that most charges were unnecessary, exaggerated, and context-derived.
