As unrest over the death of George Floyd and racial inequality in general reverberates across the United States, local politicians are facing an intense new wave of pressure from protesters demanding police budget cuts as they attempt to balance keeping order in their cities and enacting reforms.
demanding police budget cuts as they attempt to balance keeping order in their cities and enacting reforms.
Across the country, Seattle officials have been in their own standoff with the Capitol Hill Organized Protest , a multiple-block area of the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood that has been occupied for weeks by activists seeking the defunding of the city's police department. "Homicide detectives are investigating after one man was killed and another was injured in a shooting early Monday morning on Capitol Hill," the Seattle Police department said in a release Monday.The protesters, as the occupied area is becoming harder to manage, are reportedly considering falling back into the abandoned precinct to secure it as they try to get the city to cede to their demands.
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