Seattle council passes bill letting police use weapons on crowds
The Seattle City Council passed a bill Tuesday allowing police officers — in limited cases — to use weapons like tear gas, ...
Seattle council approves new policy on police crowd control weapons in 6-3 vote
The rules around how Seattle police can control crowds with less leathal weapons like blast balls, tear gas and pepper spray ...
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Seattle City Council approves police use of blast balls, pepper spray, tear gas during protests
The Seattle City Council Tuesday reauthorized the use of blast balls, pepper spray, and pepper by police for crowd-control purposes, despite the objections of people who said they were impacted by ...
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Seattle Community Police Commission seeks to regroup from internal turmoil, influence crowd control ordinance
Seattle’s Community Police Commission was created as part of the city’s 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, after federal officials found a pattern of unconstitutional ...