Seattle Police Chief Tells Officers She’s ‘Angry’ City Ordered to Abandon Precinct: ‘An Insult to You and Our Community’
By Craig Bannister | June 12, 2020 | 12:00pm EDT
“This message may be leaked to the public, but I am not concerned about that,†Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best tells her officers in a video message voicing her objection to being ordered to surrender a precinct to dangerous, armed “anti-government groups.â€
While she wanted to continue to defend the precinct, “The city had other plans for the building,†Chief Best tells her officers in the now-public video:
“You should know: leaving the precinct was not my decision. We fought for days to protect it. I asked you to stay on that line, day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened, and in some cases, hurt.
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