by Rich Smith • Mar 1, 2021 at 10:20 am
Carrying small amounts of drugs is legal in Washington now. The next moves happen under this roof. Lester Black
A major front in Washington s war on drugs suddenly evaporated last week when a majority of the justices on the state Supreme Court declared the state s felony drug possession law unconstitutional. The move essentially decriminalized the act of carrying small amounts of drugs.
The ruling created big waves in the criminal legal system and in the Legislature, predictably prompting conservatives to lose their goddamned minds, moderates to stiffen slightly, and those fighting the racist drug war to cheer.
Seattle’s police watchdog agency finds ‘multiple’ offenses in officers’ response to racial justice protests By Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times (TNS)
Published: January 16, 2021, 5:52pm
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Seattle police used improper force when officers separately hurled a tear-gas canister at a TV news crew and blast balls that injured two people during demonstrations against racial injustice on Capitol Hill last June, the city’s police watchdog announced Friday.
And in another seminal moment of the George Floyd protests in Seattle last summer when an officer in riot gear, standing in a police line near the department’s East Precinct, seized a protester’s pink umbrella, sparking an eruption of tear gas, flash-bang devices and pepper spray that sent scores of protesters running for cover a police commander and other officers overstepped their authority, according to the city’s Office of Police Accountability.