The "young community member" Tommy Le was high and stabbing things at random. His death was not the result of police brutality. What he, Charleena Lyles, Manny Ellis, Clayton Joseph, and Iosia Faletogo all had in common was their decision to attempt to attack the police. There is no police reform that would make it reasonable for an officer to allow someone to stick a pen in their neck. None of these deaths had anything to do with racism, or police brutality - they were simply hyped in this way by the media because that generates more clicks than the truth, which is that in every case their own violent actions led to their deaths.

Shorter @1:

"Black people are always responsible for their own deaths at the hands of police, as opposed to all the angry white males who commit mass murder, are arrested at-scene without incident, and then given kid-glove treatment by the police - including free drive-thru fast food - because apparently cops are more afraid of a Black person with a pen/knife/cell phone than they are of a white person with a still-smoking high-capacity semi-automatic rifle..."

29 people killed by SPD since John T. Williams, & hundreds of people brutalized & falsely arrested by SPD for protesting these injustices. While the legislature struggles with advancing police reform our city council -- EVERY MEMBER -- remains silent & watches as more are killed & allow the SPD officers that abused people escape any accountability (we are past the 180 day limit for investigation & discipline). There have been 4 "reprimands" for all this horrendous behavior to date.
All current mayoral candidates have also remained silent, virtue signaling using the names of everyone you can think of killed by police except those killed right here in Seattle.

Sen. Guyen speaks the truth: the police have been functioning like a Peruvian death squad and must be reigned in. This dovetails with the necessity of gun control and more robust mental health counseling for those who are afflicted with psychological difficulties, and may react inappropriately and violently to perceived threats. Let us not table this crucial social issue while the bodies pile up. The police should be defunded and the financial resources reallocated to social and mental health support services. The Charleena Lyles assassination was the defining moment to address police brutality in our region.

@4 quoting Luke Skywalker as you must live in a galaxy far, far away...“amazing, every word of what you just said was wrong”

Sen. Nguyen, I appreciate your efforts at reforming the King County Sheriff Office. As you wrote correctly, police and prosecutor press briefs generally go unchallenged in the media. Is it any wonder that police and prosecutors have developed contempt for a public they know they can routinely lie to without consequence?

Sadly, I think the police are beyond reform because they believe it's the public that needs to be reformed. Every reform you implemented in King County was present in Minneapolis as a result of a Consent Decree when Derek Chauvin was murdered by "police trainer" Derek Chauvin. I am not hopeful.

@1: Really appreciate you showing the true attitude of the police in King County towards these homicides. I think you and other police have a right to ask: if the public is unwilling to support your right to commit homicides on a routine basis without repercussions, does the public truly have your back?

No reason to worry though. Obviously the politicians in Olympia and the public are displeased with your behavior, but the prosecutors and judges who are there to make excuses for and excuse your criminal behavior have no plan to give up their iron grip preventing reform.

Sleep easy. Those who hold real power within the criminal system work for you and not the other way around.

"George Floyd was murdered by "police trainer" Derek Chauvin."

I feel like this is just the homelessness issue 2.0. We'll get a decade of lip-service, no results. Seattle, woo!