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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what s clicking on Foxnews.com. An Olympia, Wash., city council member disagrees with Mayor Cheryl Selby s designation of last week s forcible occupation of the Red Lion Hotel to demand housing for the homeless as an act of domestic terrorism. While I 100% believe people, particularly hotel workers and guests, could reasonably fear for their safety during the action by housing activists at the Red Lion last weekend, I 100% reject the notion that this was an act of terrorism, Olympia Councilmember Renata Rollins said in a statement to Fox News on Friday. Terrorism is the use of targeted political violence rooted in the supremacy of one group over others, along race, religious, or ethnic lines, she added. ....
Mayor calls Olympia hotel occupation domestic terrorism The Olympian 2/3/2021 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Feb. 3 Olympia city officials on Tuesday roundly condemned the actions of the group Oly Housing Now, which staged an occupation of the Red Lion Inn hotel on Sunday afternoon that ended in seven arrests. Council member Dani Madrone said she was appalled. Mayor Pro Tem Clark Gilman said he was disappointed and confused. Other adjectives included reckless, uninformed, and infuriating. The latter term came from council member Renata Rollins, who co-founded a homelessness advocacy group and has been vocal about supporting harm reduction approaches to homelessness. She called the group s actions short-sighted, ego-driven, and counterproductive. ....
Olympia City Council approves interim police guild contract, but hints at future changes The Olympian 1/13/2021 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Jan. 13 Olympia City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved an updated contract will the Olympia Police Guild, the union that represents 60 of the Olympia Police Department s officers. The previous contract expired at the end of 2019, and the guild has been operating under that terms of the expired contract since then. The new contract covers two years, including 2020 (retroactively) and 2021; most of the changes have to do with wages and benefits. The total cost to the city is $189,818 for 2020 and $119,541 for 2021. ....