Watchdog To Review Non-Lethal Tactics Against Protesters, Including 'Heat Ray' Request The Government Accountability Office, a non-partisan government watchdog, will review the federal government's use of non-lethal weapons and the tactics it wielded against protesters this summer.
KUOW Newsroom Child pepper spray case: Seattle Police accountability office finds no wrongdoing The city's Office of Police Accountability has wrapped up five investigations into complaints filed against the Seattle Police Department amid ongoing protests, including a case in which a child was hit with pepper spray.
KUOW Newsroom Seattle City Council's Gonzalez: 'We've created harm' by expanding police system Lorena Gonzalez and the rest of the Seattle City Council face a big decision – the response to Mayor Jenny Durkan’s veto of their cuts to the Police Department budget.
4 Houston Police Officers Fired Over Fatal Shooting Of Nicolas Chavez "You don't get to shoot somebody 21 times," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said of the deadly encounter in April. "I cannot defend that."
KUOW Newsroom Federal prosecutors take over Seattle protester cases, concerning local attorneys Amid Seattle protests, federal prosecutors target arson and firearms cases; critics call charges politicized
This is how hard it is to identify a Seattle cop In Seattle, a police officer's "badge number" could be a unique identifier — or it could be a number on a randomly assigned badge. And even when the number does identify an individual officer, it can still be tricky to identify them using that alone
Week In Review A new school year and a new interim police chief, this week Marcie Sillman discusses the week's news with Kevin Schofield of Seattle City Council Insight, and David Kroman and Manola Secaira of Crosscut.
Seattle Protests for Civil Rights Reports of bizarre menstrual cycles emerge after tear gas exposure from Seattle protests Amid ongoing civil rights demonstrations in Seattle, protesters, journalists, and even people blocks from the action have reported abnormal menstrual cycles after being exposed to tear gas.
KUOW Newsroom A park. A protest. Cal Anderson remains in flux ‘…perhaps the idea was that security guards might be able to tell people to leave the park.’
KUOW Newsroom Tommy Le's family calls for action from King County Sheriff following outside review of 2017 shooting death Family members of Tommy Le, who was shot by a King County deputy in 2017, welcomed an outside review of his death. The King County Sheriff's Office, however, says the review creates a "false impression."
