Seattle Homicide Rate Increased Sharply in 2020 Amid Protests, Police Defunding
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) investigated 50 homicides last year, the most homicides in the city in 26 years.
This was an increase of 61 percent compared to the 31 cases in 2019. Law enforcement personnel cited issues such as ongoing protests as well as officials actively limiting police power.
Data from local police also shows that homicides across the country rose by 36 percent in 2020 compared to a year before.
“Obviously, the pandemic, the political climate, the civil unrest adds to that,” Jim Fuda, law enforcement director of Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound, told The Epoch Times. “You cannot blame police for that.”
The judge who blocked Trump s first travel ban said he
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Judge Who Temporarily Blocked Trump s Muslim Ban Slammed With Death Threats
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US District Judge James Robart temporarily blocked the executive order, citing irreparable injury.
Robart told 60 Minutes he received 40,000 threatening messages after his decision.
Just one week after his inauguration in January 2017, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting the number of incoming immigrants from six majority-Muslim countries. One week later, senior US District Judge James Robart temporarily blocked the order, citing that Trump demonstrate[d] immediate and irreparable injury.
After learning about Robart s decision, Trump immediately wrote a scathing series of tweets that denigrated the federal judge. The opinion of this so-called judge, Trump said, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!