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Seattle driver charged in protester's death pleads not guilty, relatives speak out

Dawit Kelete, 27, pleaded not guilty to charges brought against him in connection with an Interstate 5 collision that left one protester dead and another severely injured earlier this month.
Liz Brazile
Law & Courts

King County Exec proposes phasing out downtown Seattle jail

King County Executive Dow Constantine is proposing to phase out use of the county’s downtown Seattle jail, which currently houses inmates along with the county’s Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Amy Radil
Crime

New King County proposal: Close the youth jail by 2025

King County Executive Dow Constantine on Tuesday proposed a plan that activists have long called for: closing the youth jail.
Paige Browning
Law & Courts

Jury trials have been backlogged in King County due to Covid -19 closures. But now those trials are starting up again, with new safeguards in place.

Jury trials have been backlogged in King County due to Covid -19 closures. But now those trials are starting up again, with new safeguards in place.
Amy Radil
Seattle Now: 'We have to take advantage' of this moment

The movement for equal justice has people in power talking about community-led change. We talk with one organizer and youth mentor who's been trying to wedge through that door for years.
Patricia Murphy
'Don’t be a sheep.' A SW Washington sheriff’s response to governor’s mask order

Hours after Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced a statewide mandate for people to wear masks in public, a Republican sheriff in southwest Washington appeared to urge open defiance of the order.
Austin Jenkins
Law & Courts

Businesses and residents bring lawsuit against Seattle over CHOP

A group of Capitol Hill business owners and residents have filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle over its handling the area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
Kate Walters
Politics

Seattle City Council votes to repeal 2 loitering laws

The Seattle city council voted unanimously Monday to repeal two laws over concerns about disproportionate impacts on Black and Indigenous people and other People of Color. The council voted to remove the crime of drug traffic loitering and prostitution loitering from the city's criminal code.
Kate Walters
Law & Courts

Police to train on intervening in Washington state. ‘You owe it to your partner’

New laws and training in WA are the result of Black Lives Matter marches that have swept the state and country.
Amy Radil
Law & Courts

Federal judge in Seattle bans use of chemicals or projectiles against peaceful protesters

Today in Seattle, U.S. District Judge Richard Jones granted a temporary restraining order banning the use of chemicals or projectiles against peaceful protesters in the city. That includes tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades.
Amy Radil

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