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Washington state lawmakers advance bills to ban police use of chokeholds and neck restraints, collect use-of-force data By Joseph O’Sullivan, The Seattle Times
Published: March 2, 2021, 10:24am
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OLYMPIA Washington Senate lawmakers Monday approved a bill to begin requiring law enforcement agencies around the state to report details when officers use force against citizens.
And on Saturday, Washington House legislators approved a bill to ban police from using chokeholds, neck restraints and “no-knock” warrants.
The bills advance as Washington lawmakers have vowed to reshape policing this legislative session in the wake of last year’s protests over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Manuel Ellis and others at the hands of police.
Vancouver police seize additional evidence in Donald shooting investigation
Local coalition calls for state, federal investigation into Clark County Sheriff’s Office By Jessica Prokop, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: February 26, 2021, 5:56pm
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4 Photos Photographs released Friday by the Vancouver Police Department which is leading the Jenoah Donald shooting investigation and handling the release of information show items found during a search of Donald s Mercedes-Benz earlier this month. (Photo contributed by the Vancouver Police Department) Photo Gallery
New court records filed earlier this week in the Jenoah Donald shooting investigation show miscellaneous tools, including a screwdriver, wire cutters and a spring-assisted knife, were seized as evidence from the front seat area of his car.
Report finds Clark County law enforcement did not fully comply in 2 death probes
Washington AG Bob Ferguson: Not all conditions of law followed By Jerzy Shedlock, Columbian Breaking News Reporter
Published: February 26, 2021, 6:00pm
Share: Police at the scene of the fatal shooting of William Abbe on Fourth Plain Boulevard and Stapleton Road on April 28, 2020. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)
The Washington Attorney General’s Office has found that Clark County law enforcement failed to fully comply with legal requirements during two police shooting investigations.
The Southwest Washington Independent Investigative Response Team did not include two non-law enforcement community representatives while investigating the fatal shootings of William E. Abbe, 50, killed April 28 in Vancouver, and Edwin L. Glessner, 32, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound March 12 when Camas and Washougal police officers responded t
Coalition Calls on DOE to Reconsider Nuclear Waste Rule
February 26, 2021 WASHINGTON– The Yakama Nation, state of Washington and environmental groups joined together in an unprecedented request to the Department of Energy today that it rescind a harmful Trump-era regulation that could allow millions of gallons of radioactive waste to be abandoned at the Hanford Site.
Remediating and removing this toxic waste, which is a legacy of the early U.S. nuclear bomb program, is essential to protecting the Yakama people – and millions more who live downstream along the Columbia River basin.
Given President Biden’s strong and historic commitment to environmental justice, protecting public health, and science-based policymaking, tossing this insidious rule and recommitting to a clean-up of the Hanford Site is crucially important.
Anti-tax activist Tim Eyman. (AP)
A Thurston County Superior Court judge issued a ruling Wednesday, fining anti-tax activist Tim Eyman over $2.6 million for “numerous and egregious” violations of campaign finance laws, and barring him from managing any and all finances for political committees.
The case brought by the state against Eyman originally filed in 2017 by Attorney General Bob Ferguson alleged that Eyman had received kickbacks from donors contributing money to his initiatives, and then used that money for personal gain.
#BREAKING: Court finds Tim Eyman intentionally violated campaign finance laws by paying himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. Judge issues penalty of $2.6M – largest ever against an individual – and bars Eyman from directing political committees’ finances.