A Yesler Terrace parent group is holding a meeting Saturday to help people better understand the city's 911 system and to discuss crime with police.
The meeting starts at 2 p.m. at the Yesler Community Center. As with many meetings at Yesler Terrace, interpreters in Yesler Terrace's many common languages will help with interpretation.
From PEER:
from Kistap Sun
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Donald Vose arrived late in the day and was the final customer at Fritz Moller's Bainbridge Island barbershop. That was just what Vose wanted.
Moller was a transplant to the island. Known as the Belgium barber, he set up shop in Rolling Bay next to Lucas Rodal's grocery store. A sign in his window advertised shaves on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. About 2 miles north he owned 5 acres where 200 chickens were under his watch.
It's been three weeks since May Day, and the reverberations from the day's mayhem continue. At a court hearing last Thursday, two young men accused of throwing rocks at the police were arraigned in King County Superior Court. That evening, Seattle police posted to their website asking for tips from the public on eight suspects, complete with videos that appear to show young men smashing windows with rocks and skateboards.
Sunday, E Pine’s only anarchist-friendly cafe collective, Black Coffee Co-op, hosted a Punk Prom. Predictably, it was a little noisy and ran late into the night. And, predictably, neighbors in nearby apartment buildings and businesses weren’t happy about it. But one of Black Coffee’s four founding worker-owners tells CHS that the co-op has charted a new course to be better neighbors and, yes, even implement “policy” as their experiment in community-minded business continues.
Shortly before midnight last night, 86-year-old activist Dorli Rainey—yes, the Dorli Rainey whose Maalox-covered pepper-sprayed face became an icon of the Occupy movement—got a text message that sheriff deputies were about to evict ironworker Jeremy Griffin from his foreclosed South Park home. So she immediately jumped in a cab and headed down to Griffin's house to put her body on the line.
Of course she did.
This weekend I spent some time with Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott (whose Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, which I read as a student in Chicago, was a seismic event for my young brain).
from the media:
The so-called Barefoot Bandit is on his way back to federal prison after making a plea deal in his international crime spree that started in Western Washington.
The 22-year-old has been in jail in Mount Vernon for months in connection with a theft and burglary charge.
The highly criticized case was finally resolved Wednesday.
Colton Harris-Moore pleaded guilty to breaking into an Anacortes airplane hangar during his infamous crime spree three years ago.
He was also charged with stealing a plane and crashing it on Orcas Island.
Westfield Southcenter Mall in Tukwila was briefly locked down after an officer shot a suspect during a police chase in the mall parking lot Wednesday afternoon.
Tukwila police said the incident started just after noon. Police were conducting a random search in Southcenter’s Olympic parking garage when they came upon a vehicle that had been reported stolen. One passenger appeared to be inside.
When the driver showed up and spotted the officers, he jumped into another vehicle with another man and they took off. A police chase followed.
SEATTLE -- The court-appointed monitor in charge of overseeing reform in the Seattle Police Department said it's "troubling" that somehow no police cameras were rolling during a fatal officer-involved shooting.
In late February, two men separately called police to say their brother was holding their father hostage at knife point in their North Seattle home.
Police say 21-year-old Jack Keewatinawin later grabbed a piece of rebar and made a move toward an officer. Police opened fire and killed the man.
A vandalism spree in the South Sound targeting two Bank of America branches and a warehouse in Fife could be the work of anarchists, police said.
A downtown Tacoma branch was struck Monday night. Police found an ATM spray-painted with the words, "Bank of corruption." The screen was covered in spray paint and the card reader slot was glued shut.
Officers also found windows at the branch near South 9th and A streets painted with anarchist symbols.
An ATM at the Bank of America branch at 2nd and Meeker streets in downtown Puyallup suffered identical damage.
