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Shaun Scott 🌹🤝

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Seattle, let’s assess where we are. We need 7 city councilmembers to vote to override Mayor Durkan’s veto of the Council’s 3% reduction to the police budget.Based on public statements,

I wrote in @Crosscut about why defunding the police is about Seattle ending its centuries-long battle with its own form of Jim Crow. When the fight for "reform" takes place

Police departments operate as active political forces, not just passive enforcers of the law. Seen that way, Seattle organizers are in the opening stages of a long campaign against Seattle