Herbert Hightower, Jr. was a person of color in severe mental health crisis, as were many of the 27 people killed by the SPD over the last nine years, including not just Charleena Lyles, but also Danny Rodriguez and Ryan Smith killed in 2019, and Shaun Lee Fuhr and Terry Caver killed this year. They were all people of color in mental health crisis, all but one brandishing knives.

What is notable in all these cases are two things: our current police accountability system never provided answers or justice to their families and loved ones, and the current changes to policing/public safety -- both those enacted and those proposed by the City Council -- would have made no difference in the outcome.

In every one of these cases, regardless of proposed public safety changes, an officer with a gun would have been called to the scene and an officer with a gun would have shot the person dead.

In the UK people brandishing knives (outside of rare terrorist incidents) are almost never killed.

We need real police accountability in Seattle, and in order to even start that discussion we need to recognize all who have been killed by the SPD and recognize how are current accountability structures continue to fail.

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on Shoes is a
Major Step Up
for peeps over Profits

why not let's do that
to the Jackboots
as well.