After last night's packed police-accountability forum at City Hall—that is, after some folks stared down officials and some in the audience performed their theatrics and some panelists postured and other panelists struck some innovative ideas and finally everyone cheered for a fine job of moderating by C.R. Douglas—four women approached me. They were graduate students at the UW whose professor had assigned them to attend and then write about a community meeting. The condition: the meeting had to highlight some disagreement or demonstrate friction.

Well, graduate students, you got it.

Seattle's long-awaited confrontation about SPD's controversial behavior came to a head. Although extremely chaotic at times (the NAACP's Jame Bible, who was invited to speak but chose not to, tried and failed to stage a walk-out), it was also cathartic and productive. There was anger but plenty of civil discussion. Several folks on the panel were outstanding—two words: Nicole Gaines!—and rolled out substantive ideas about what Seattle needs to do next. Check out Cienna's post on the most cogent ideas that came up. Kelly O took some beautiful photos.