by Agueda Pacheco Flores
Community members in Capitol Hill are staunchly objecting to the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department’s decision to demolish the 3-year-old garden that was planted in Cal Anderson Park following the George Floyd protests in 2020.
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Continue reading The Morning Update Show — 6/2/21by Carolyn Bick
Since March 2020, the King County Jail in downtown Seattle has instituted certain COVID-19 protocols in order to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. One of these protocols stipulates that the jail will not book people arrested on nonviolent misdemeanor charges.
Except it has.
Continue reading Top SPD Officials Asked King County Jail Officials to Override COVID Restrictions and Book Nonviolent Protestors. They Complied.
