Pearl Jam song as part of a political awareness campaign.The Hamilton creator and His Dark Materials star said in a statement that Pearl Jam’s music “has made an impact on me since I was a teenager”.
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Seattle City Council voted to cut the police department budget by roughly 18% – less than half of the 50% reduction that activists had called for – and instead re-allocate “millions” of dollars to “fund community alternatives,” according to officials and recent reports. Council members voted Monday to slash funds meant for SPD training and overtime, reassign certain roles to other city agencies and eliminate unfilled jobs, according to officials and local news station KING 5.
Pearl Jam song as part of a political awareness campaign.The Hamilton creator and His Dark Materials star said in a statement that Pearl Jam’s music “has made an impact on me since I was a teenager”.
Seattle's City Council is mulling a new criminal code regulation that would make it the first municipality in the nation to excuse misdemeanor crimes if they can be linked to poverty, addiction or mental disorders. The proposal excludes misdemeanors related to domestic violence and impaired driving.
Don’t be shocked that Antifa activists and other criminal agitators created an autonomous zone around a foreclosed home in North Portland. After months of placating and enabling violent radicals, local officials created this problem.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has asked the City Council to pay her legal fees of approximately $240,000 following a failed recall effort against her earlier this year, according to reports.
Local Seattle media outlets are raising concerns over the city's $3 million contract with King County Equity Now, a pro-defund the police group linked to this summer's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP).
A group of protesters barricaded in Portland, Ore., in and around what’s known as the “Red House” seemed to be setting up for a long fight, a guest told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night.
EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be meeting the father of Travis Montgomery (Jay Hayden) shortly on ABC’s firefighter drama series Station 19. Robert Curtis Brown will be introduced as Travis’ dad, Paul Montgomery, on Thursday’s episode titled “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and he will recur throughout the season. You can see a first-look photo above.
A federal judge has found the Seattle Police Department in contempt of court for the indiscriminate use of pepper-filled “blast balls” and pepper spray during Black Lives Matter protests in recent months. U.S.
Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that she will not seek a second term after a tough tenure in office in which she faced widespread criticism over her handling of several crises, including the establishment of an “autonomous zone” amid civil unrest in the city last summer. In a video message to city residents, Durkan said her decision was driven by a desire to focus on ongoing recovery efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Seattle’s first-term Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that she won’t seek reelection.This almost ensures the unthinkable: Seattle will drift even further to the left. The news didn’t come to me as a shock.
A bitter political battle has broken out in Seattle where one of the city's councilmembers is facing a recall effort led by residents who expressed dismay over her conduct during recent protests. On Thursday, Seattle resident Ernest Lou made his case again for the recall effort, which he based on four specific charges relating to how Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.
At the end of a record-setting year of news consumption, Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 U.S. cities will be added to Amazon’s news app, with another 90 on deck for 2021.
Federal authorities in Seattle on Monday charged two women with a terrorist attack on train tracks, suggesting they were working with an anarchist community to stand in solidarity with a Native American tribe to oppose the construction of a natural gas pipeline across the Canadian province of British Columbia by trying to derail trains in Washington state.
Seattle police made four arrests Monday night during protests that broke out by Capitol Hill. Officers with the Seattle Police Department witnessed “members of a protest” damage a KeyBank located in the 1600 block of Broadway around 8 p.m.The group then smashed windows at a Starbucks in the 800 block of 12th Avenue before officers moved in and made three initial arrests. One person was arrested for property damage and another two for obstructing a law enforcement officer.
Life isn’t all roses for car owners in Portland. The Oregon city topped a list of major metropolitan areas with the worst auto theft rates compiled by AutoInsuranceEZ.com.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to sign a new city budget that will reduce the police budget by 18% despite homicides reaching record highs not seen in a decade. Council members overwhelmingly voted last week to cut funds for police training, overtime and to eliminate dozens of vacant positions within the Seattle Police Department after months of contentious talks.The reductions fall short of the 50% local activists demanded amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racial
A new program by a Washington county prosecutor’s office would allow for certain crime victims to be paid restitution directly from a fund established by the agency – and said to be supplied by taxpayers – instead of waiting for the alleged criminals’ cases to play out in court, according to officials and a report.
That knock on your door? It might be someone attempting to take your home. Police in suburbs north of Seattle say so-called “sovereign citizens” have been visiting homes in at least two communities, presenting homeowners with official-looking documents, and announcing that they’re the rightful owners.
Seattle's crime increase will only get worse if the city's leadership continues to hamstring its police force, Seattle Police Officers Guild president Mike Solan told Fox News Wednesday.