A disciplinary review board improperly reinstated a fired Seattle police officer who punched an intoxicated, handcuffed woman in the face hard enough to cause an orbital fracture, an appeals court in Washington ruled, finding the board’s decision sends a message that violation of a clear policy is “not that serious if the officer is dealing with a difficult subject, losing patience, or passionate in believing that he or she did nothing wrong.”
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A longtime Seattle City Council member must face a recall effort over claims she allowed hundreds into City Hall during Covid lockdown and led a group of protesters to the mayor’s private residence, the en banc Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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State and federal scientists have pushed to protect endangered West Coast orca. But a plan to dredge the Seattle Harbor would accelerate all three of the reasons the whales are struggling, advocates say.
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Seattle’s new law requiring hotel owners to pay workers health benefits should be tossed out for violating ERISA, an industry group told a Ninth Circuit panel Monday.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice dropped its investigation into the city of Seattle’s racial equity training for its employees on Friday. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes called the investigation started under the Trump administration as “politically motivated.”
Read moreA federal judge granted nearly $82,000 in attorney fees to Black Lives Matter in a case in which the city of Seattle was found in contempt for violating an injunction preventing police from using certain types of force against protesters.
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Challenging President Trump’s threats to withhold federal funding from cities he labeled “anarchist jurisdictions,” New York City joined Portland and Seattle on Thursday in a federal complaint.
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A Seattle judge on Thursday put the brakes on an order requiring all local major media outlets to turn over to police unedited video of a Black Lives Matter protest, deciding instead that he will conduct an in camera review and decide what — if any — footage will go to police.
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All major Seattle media outlets must turn over to police unedited video of a Black Lives Matter protest that may include images of potential suspects torching police cars and stealing weapons in the vehicles, a King County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe driver who hit and killed a Black Lives Matter protester and injured another was charged Wednesday with vehicular homicide, two counts of vehicular assault and reckless driving.
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Riot police in Seattle arrested dozens and shut down the autonomous protest zone known as Capitol Hill Organized Protest, after Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan issued an emergency order early Wednesday.
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A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old is in critical condition after a shooting overnight Monday in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest Zone.
Read moreEleven businesses and three people sued Seattle in a federal class action, claiming its toleration of protesters occupying the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is an unconstitutional taking and a nuisance that denied the plaintiffs due process.
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Faced with growing pressure to crack down on an “occupied” protest zone after two weekend shootings, Seattle’s mayor said Monday that officials will wind down the blocks-long span of city streets taken over two weeks ago that President Trump says is run by “anarchists.”
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One person was wounded in the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours, police said.
Read moreThe festive atmosphere continued in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Friday, named by demonstrators who claimed the area surrounding a temporarily abandoned police precinct Friday, despite the rainy Seattle weather.
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After days of violent confrontations with protesters, police in Seattle have largely withdrawn from part of a neighborhood where protesters have created a festival-like scene that has President Trump fuming.
Read moreSeattle protesters brought a federal complaint against the city Tuesday, saying police used excessive force in firing tear gas and rubber bullets at them.
Read moreOne person was shot, apparently by a man with a gun who drove into a crowd of George Floyd protesters in Seattle on Sunday night, emergency services said.
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