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City of Seattle testing and vaccination efforts transitioning to partners at the end of July By Chambolion Fairley City of Seattle waives appointments for three vaccine sites SEATTLE - Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Wednesday that the city of Seattle will transition testing and vaccination efforts to partners on July 31. UW Medicine will carry out efforts by providing free testing at Aurora and SODO hubs with continued access to curative kiosks. Vaccination is also available at pharmacies and health care providers including the Downtown Public Health Center. UW Medicine, which has provided laboratory testing capacity for the region since the beginning of the pandemic, will be partnering with the City of Seattle to take over responsibility for their test collection sites to ensure testing remains broadly available in our community, said Dr. Geoffrey Baird, Professor and Chair, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at UW Medicine. ....
The exterior of the Seattle police department s East Precinct building is shown on Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Seattle. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer We know who made the call to leave Seattle Policeâs East Precinct last summer, finally Jul 09, 2021 Recall June 2020. George Floyd has been murdered by police in Minneapolis, and the video of his death is so shocking that people across the nation pour onto the streets in protest. In Seattle, demonstrators face off with police at their outpost in the bohemian Capitol Hill neighborhood. Most protests wane, but this one grows stronger. People return night after night, undeterred by cops shooting rubber blast balls and spraying chemical gases. A yellow-greenish haze drifts through the neighborhood. ....
Wednesday Marks 1 Year Since Seattle's CHOP Formed - Seattle, WA - The three-week occupied protest emerged after Seattle police abandoned the East Precinct. One year later, some questions remain unanswered. ....
Former SPD chief offers new details on why East Precinct was abandoned last summer SPD s East Precinct in June of 2020. (Getty Images) Nearly a year after the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct was temporarily abandoned last summer, former Chief Carmen Best has provided further insight into the decision making that took place behind the scenes. In early June, sources confirmed to KIRO Radio at the time that preparations were underway to secure the East Precinct on Capitol Hill, remove sensitive materials, and potentially abandon the building. Days later, SPD left the precinct entirely, and protesters moved in, setting up barricades and forming what would later become known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. ....
Mayor Jenny Durkan and SPD Chief Carmen Best. (Mayor Durkan, Twitter) With questions still surrounding missing June 2020 text messages from a collection of high-ranking Seattle city officials, could there be legal ramifications? Public records expert and Kirkland City Councilmember Toby Nixon spoke to KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show to provide some insight. Evidence of the missing texts first surfaced when a whistleblower complaint alleged Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office failed to properly handle a series of public records requests, after it discovered that the mayor’s text messages between August 2019 and June 2020 had gone missing. Lawsuits filed against the city regarding the CHOP further revealed that Durkan’s texts weren’t the only messages among local leaders from last June that had disappeared, with the list also including then-SPD Chief Carmen Best, Fire Chief Harold Scoggins, and multiple members of SPD’s command staff. ....