About 50 more people showed up after I took this photo of the crowd at a meeting of the City Council's committee on civil rights, where there's a hearing underway on SPD's questionable fatal shooting of John Williams last month. It's packed. Folks are standing around the perimeter of the city council chambers and even more are outside listening to the hearing on the loudspeakers. "If you kill another man, this is plain murder is what it is," says a man descendant from Chief Sealth. "These Natives are restless. We need some answers."

As I was writing, a Native American woman came before the council to lead a song and chant. For lack of better words, it was intense. (I almost cried.) Several singers, drums, feathers—while the council and everyone stood in silence and hung their heads. (Any time City Hall comes to a halt for chanting and drumming to recognize a death at the hands of a police officer, you know something has gone seriously wrong. A dog-and-pony show vowing a vague sense of future accountability won't be enough to quell the movement that's brewing.)

The hearing will include the chairs of the Seattle Human Rights Commission—Roslyn Solomon and Chris Stearns—delivering a list of recommendations. Cienna will have more details afterward, but for now, the city-appointed commission leaders are calling for an independent, civilian review panel on the Williams shooting.