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Seattle will pay $10 million to protesters who said police used excessive force during 2020 protestsSeattle has agreed to pay demonstrators who sued over the police department's heavy-handed response to protests following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
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The watchdog group opened an investigation after an officer's callous remarks about the death of Jaahnavi Kandula were heard in audio recorded from his body camera.
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The Seattle Police Department says an officer and police union leader under investigation for making callous remarks about the death of a woman from India has been taken off patrol duty.
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city has hired six community responders to help police with lower priority 911 calls.
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The Seattle police guild argues that Seattle Police Officer Daniel Audere's comments about Jaahnavi Kandula heard on bodycam video were taken out of context.
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In recording, a Seattle police officer joked after woman's death. He says remarks were misunderstoodA city watchdog agency is investigating after a body-worn camera captured one Seattle Police Department union leader joking with another following the death of a woman who was struck and killed by a police cruiser as she was crossing a street.
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The U.S. Justice Department and Seattle officials have asked a judge to end most federal oversight of the city's police department.
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After serving as interim chief for two years, Adrian Diaz is now the permanent chief of the Seattle Police Department. KNKX Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick visited Seattle Police Headquarters to talk with Diaz about his ongoing tenure and top issues for the department and the community it serves.
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An inquest jury has started deliberations into the actions of two Seattle police officers who fatally shot Charleena Lyles, a Black pregnant mother in her apartment. She was killed in 2017 after purportedly brandishing a knife at officers who responded to her report of a burglary. Officers Jason Anderson and Steven McNew, who are white, shot her seven times.
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Three misconduct complaints against former Seattle police Chief Carmen Best from summer of 2020 stalled and are still pending. Police watchdogs and Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office say the cases sat because former Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office didn’t agree to send them to an outside investigator, though she disputes that characterization.