Federal Way's City Council will hold a special meeting on public safety this evening as the community reels from a series of three shooting deaths in two days. Federal Way police urged residents to avoid walking the streets late at night, particularly in secluded areas, and to walk only with others. The most recent fatality involved a 30-year-old man who was gunned down while running with his dog at 11 p.m. Monday. The meeting will include a briefing from Police Chief Andy J. Hwang.
The Seattle Times has a shocking video of a Tacoma police officer manhandling a girl on her bicycle in the Tacoma Mall parking lot, where the 15-year-old was bicycling with a brother. The young woman, now a 17-year-old at Bates Technical College, has filed a lawsuit. Somehow, the plaintiff was charged as a juvenile with resisting arrest but a judge tossed the charges, saying there was no evidence. And, yes, the brother and sister were biking while black.
Seattle is a great biking city? Ha. Or at least you may say that after reading a couple of parents' takes on the Seattle Bike Blog about what it's really like to try to bike around the city. One focuses on Southeast Seattle's biking miseries, and the other maps the very few routes where parents can take their children and feel somewhat comfortable.
