OLYMPIA, Wash. – Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, former candidate for Seattle City Attorney Scott Lindsay and retired Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best are calling on Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan to apologize or resign following a tweet the appears to claim Black Lives Matter protesters were part of the siege on the Capitol building in D. C. on Wednesday.
Seattle council, police union react to bill expanding powers of accountability groups
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On Monday, Seattle councilmembers approved a bill giving explicit subpoena powers to the city’s police accountability and oversight groups. With Mayor Jenny Durkan set to sign it into law, it will next be subject to what will likely be a contentious bargaining process with Seattle’s police union.
The measure came about after doubts were raised about the existing subpoena powers for the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the Office of Police Accountability (OPA), due to competing language in a 2017 ordinance. The bill passed by the council sought to provide added clarity to those powers, particularly in the realm of officer misconduct investigations.
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Seattle City Council Member Lisa Herbold, who defunded Seattle police, calls 911 for a crime she wants legalized, a report says.
As per The Post Millennial, Herbold called 911 Friday night when a man allegedly threw a rock at her window, which she initially thought was a gun shot that she docked for cover in her kitchen.
The crime she reported to 911 for help from ironically was the very crime she wanted legalized two months earlier.
Herbold, the Post Millennial said, introduced an ordinance in October that will excuse crimes of minor nature anything less of a felony committed by persons exhibiting symptoms of addiction or mental disorder out of the need for survival to supply a basic need. Herbold was said to already have completed formal discussion on the ordinance with the legislation a week earlier to her calling 911.
2020 Saw Resurgence of Strikes as a Key Tactic for Labor Around the World
Nurses of Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital are seen on strike after contract negotiations ended with no agreement in New Rochelle, New York, on December 1, 2020.
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Like every other social movement in the U.S. this year, the compounding crises of 2020 proved a catalyzing force for the labor movement, compelling essential and frontline workers to join picket lines to ensure basic protections and increased pay as they continue to face disproportionate risks and increasingly perilous working conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
SEATTLE â A federal judge has summarily denied a request for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop Seattle police and park workers from clearing the hold-out remnants of a large homeless encampment at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill.
U.S. District Judge Richard Jones said the plaintiff in the case, a Seattle resident named Ada Yeager who had been living at Cal Anderson, failed to prove that the removal of an encampment that has been at the park since June would violate the constitutional rights of those who had been living there.
According to declarations filed in the case, Yeager on Thursday had agreed to work with city officials to find housing, although her attorney, Braden Pence, said many of the issues in the lawsuit remained unresolved, including whether her property would be destroyed or stored in the interim.