disgusting a city i used to live in and once considered a prime retirement location would do this 
that's 200k per blm punk .. disgusting!
Seattle will pay $10 million to protesters who said police used excessive force during 2020 protests
https://apnews.com/article/seattle-2...0d2581610f2cf7
By GENE JOHNSON
                                                                    Updated 5:38 PM CST, January 25, 2024
                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                             SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has  agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police  department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020,  in a settlement announced by attorneys from both sides Wednesday. 
The protesters were among tens of thousands who rallied downtown and in the Capitol Hill neighborhood for weeks following the 
killing of George Floyd  by Minneapolis police — a period that saw Seattle’s police department  abandon its East Precinct building as well as the establishment of the 
“Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,” a six-block zone taken over by protesters.
The  police department — led by then-Chief Carmen Best — used aggressive  techniques to disperse the crowds, including flash-bang grenades,  foam-tipped projectiles and blast balls that explode and emit pepper  gas.
       At some points during protests, people in the crowds did cause  damage, including burning police cars and trying to set a fire at the  East Precint. But a federal judge 
ordered the department to stop using chemical and other weapons indiscriminately against against peaceful demonstrators.