“Nobody committed a violation they could be arrested for,” a UW police spokesperson said.
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Starbucks Will Close Stores for an Afternoon to Train Employees on Race
More than 8,000 stores will participate.
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Six Trump Inauguration Protesters Found Not Guilty of Rioting Charges
There are still nearly 200 other defendants.
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Seattle Police Officers Shot Charleena Lyles 7 Times Before She Died, Autopsy Shows
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in our Seattle-based sister paper the Stranger. Charleena Lyles Courtesy of Family The Seattle Times published the report, released today by an attorney representing Charleena Lyles’ father. It shows that two Seattle Police officers shot Lyles seven times, hitting her in the abdomen, chest, hip, back and right […]
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Trump I: The Scaramucci Years (July 2017-Late July 2017)
Ten days. GETTY / CHIP SOMODEVILLA Anthony Scaramucci, the White House staffer best known for suggesting that Steve Bannon practices auto-fellatio, stepped down on Monday after ten days as Communications Director. Nicknamed “The Mooch,” his tenure will likely go down as one of the more memorable in the Trump administration—not just for his profanity-laced tirade […]
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Reince Priebus Leaves Post as White House Chief of Staff
Gone Win McNamee / Getty The Republican establishment is getting flung out of President Donald Trump’s orbit. First went press secretary Sean Spicer. Now, after just six months on the job, White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus is leaving. He’ll be replaced by General John Kelly, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump made […]
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Who Said It: Anthony Scaramucci or Tommy from Goodfellas?
GETTY / CHIP SOMODEVILLA, Goodfellas Newly-installed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci talks like someone shoved a Martin Scorcese script up his ass. Case-in-point: This remarkable rant dictated to the New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza last night. We wanted to test this theory, so we’ve juxtaposed lines from Scaramucci’s interview with lines spoken by Joe Pesci […]
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Seahawks DE Michael Bennett Co-Authoring Book Called Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
CORKY TREWIN/SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Michael Bennett, the Seahawks defensive lineman known for his hard hits, charitable work, and penchant for speaking his mind, is giving a run at authorship. The Super Bowl champ’s upcoming book, slated for publication in 2018, will be called Things That Make White People Uncomfortable. Dave Zirin, sports correspondent for The Nation, […]
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SCOTUS: Grandparents Exempt From Travel Ban, But Not Refugees
COSMONAUT/GETTY The latest on the travel ban from the Supreme Court is good news for grandparents, but bad news for refugees. At question was the exemptions that the high court outlined in a ruling allowing the travel ban to proceed as it considers whether the policy is constitutional. Last month, the justices decided to continue […]
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Dash Cam and Surveillance Video From Day of Charleena Lyles’ Death Offers Scant Details
Note: This story was originally posted by our Seattle sister-paper the Stranger. SPD The Seattle Police Department released videos showing two vantage points of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles, a black mother of four, though the footage offers scant details of what occurred inside an apartment when two white Seattle police officers fired their […]
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Charleena Lyles, Victim of SPD Shooting, Remembered as “Life of the Party”
Note: This story was originally posted by our Seattle sister-paper the Stranger. Charleena Lyles Courtesy of Family Those close to Charleena Lyles will tell you she bounded with energy. “She was the life of the party,” said Trina Washington, a cousin who knew Lyles since she was 12 years old. The two were inseparable. “She […]