Seattle police officer Terry Whalen, a member of the department's hostage negotiating team, wears a patch reading "Stop screaming, I'm scared too" while standing with other officers blocking an intersection Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Whalen says that the patch, a gift to him, helps calm interactions with people who may be upset. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day a…
July 13, 2020
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July 13, 2020 3:23 p.m.
Seattle mayor seeks to reform police with transfers and cuts
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan �is blasting the City Council's plan to cut the police department�s budget by 50% and instead proposed transferring a list of functions out of the police budget