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Friday politics: Money flows into a campaign, and Seattle police budget cuts head toward vote

The primary election is Tuesday. And one race getting lots of attention, and lots of money, is the contest for state Senate in the 5th District centered around Issaquah. It's a fight between two Democrats that so far has seen more than $1.2 million raised.
Angela King

Kim Shepard
Law & Courts

Black Lives Matter, ACLU say Seattle Police violated court order with violence in protests

Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County and the ACLU of Washington are asking a federal judge to hold the city of Seattle in contempt of court over police use of force over the weekend against people protesting racial injustice.
Kim Malcolm

Angela King

Gil Aegerter
Politics

Friday politics: Seattle mayor and council battle over police budget

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin came out swinging at the Seattle City Council this week, laying out plans to reduce the police budget by about 20 percent and calling the council's plan for considerably larger cuts irresponsible.
Paige Browning

Kim Shepard
Race & Identity

Blog: Ongoing protests for racial justice in the Seattle area (July 13-26)

Demonstrations and protests for racial justice continue in Western Washington. What to know.
KUOW Staff
Politics

Hello to taxes and goodbye to restaurants this week

Marcie Sillman reviews the week's news with Q13 political analyst CR Douglas, writer of The C is for Crank, Erica C Barnett, and Seattle Met's deputy editor Allison Williams.
Marcie Sillman

Sarah Leibovitz
Seattle police force protesters out of CHOP zone, make arrests

Seattle police moved in early Wednesday morning to disperse protesters in the area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
Jill Jackson

Angela King

Kate Walters
Law & Courts

Blast balls and projectiles: Seattle police have a history of crowd control criticism

Seattle police officers’ use of blast balls and projectiles drew demands for change. And that was in 2015 and 2016.
Amy Radil
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
He captured footage of a child pepper sprayed during a Seattle protest. Then he was arrested

Evan Hreha of Seattle recorded a video of a young child reportedly pepper sprayed by police during a protest. A week later, he was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully discharging a laser. He denies those allegations and maintains he was wrongfully arrested.
Liz Brazile
Politics

Seattle police union tossed out of King County labor council

The King County labor council threw out the Seattle police officers union in a contentious vote Wednesday night.
David Hyde

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