Earlier, protesters shut down the meeting for a time. Follow Heidi Groover on Twitter right here. Today’s vote is another step toward building the new police station, but it is not the final budgetary allocation to move ahead. Today’s vote also spells out that the council wants a racial equity analysis of the project.

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...