Amy Radil
Reporter
About
Amy Radil is a reporter at KUOW covering politics, government, and law enforcement, along with the occasional arts story. She got her start at Minnesota Public Radio in Duluth, and freelanced for Marketplace and other programs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amy grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from Williams College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Crime
Police vehicle pursuits could be hot topic at WA Legislature – again
Citing “growing sense of lawlessness,” some coalitions of police, mayors and prosecutors say they will press state legislators to revisit current restrictions on police vehicle pursuits in the upcoming session.
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Government
'It's tough.' King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall goes back to the academy
“Humbling.” That’s how King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall describes going through the police academy in her late fifties. She’s five weeks into the 19-week process. Not that she’s counting.
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Health
Taking stock of WA state’s decade of legal cannabis, and what to expect next
November 2022 marked a decade since Washington voted to legalize recreational cannabis. There was a lot of fanfare — and uncertainty — when voters set the state on this path back in 2012. So what are the big takeaways about our legal cannabis market so far?
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Law & Courts
Tacoma pastor calls Pierce County Sheriff’s acquittal ‘troubling but not surprising'
“Disappointing” and “troubling.” Reactions of one Tacoma pastor to the not-guilty verdict for Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer.
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Crime
Jury finds Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer not guilty
The state attorney general's office had charged Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer with false reporting and making a false or misleading statement to a public servant. On Wednesday, a jury acquitted him on both counts.
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Crime
Case against Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer goes to jury
Jurors are poised to deliberate in the trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, after hearing closing arguments from attorneys on Wednesday. The prosecutor maintained that Troyer lied to a 911 dispatcher, well knowing the type of response his claim of being threatened would initiate. His defense lawyer Anne Bremner called the case a wrongful prosecution that was politically motivated by racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd.
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Crime
Seattle teen faces felony charges for threat of mass school shooting
An 18-year old Seattle student has been arrested and charged with two counts of felony harassment for threatening to shoot students at Sammamish High School in Bellevue. The recipient of the threats notified the school principal, and Bellevue School District initiated a lockdown for three hours Friday morning until the student who made the threats was arrested by Bellevue police at his home.
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Crime
Taking the stand, Pierce County Sheriff denounces 'media narrative'
Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer testified in his own defense Thursday, telling jurors he’s been eager to give his version of the events because "the media’s made me out to be a racist and the state’s made me out to be a liar.”
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Law & Courts
At trial, police say Sheriff Ed Troyer summoned them, again, that same night
Testimony in the trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer sometimes veered into the absurd Thursday, as police witnesses described investigating the possible “malicious” throwing of a newspaper, and another officer admitted to called the sheriff “a douchebag” for dragging them into a high-profile incident.
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Crime
Trial gets underway for Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer on false reporting charges
A jury has been selected and attorneys on Wednesday delivered their opening statements in the trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer.