{"id":141213,"date":"2020-06-15T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=141213"},"modified":"2020-06-15T21:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T01:43:34","slug":"breaking-seattle-bans-police-use-of-crowd-control-devices-like-tear-gas-and-pepper-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-seattle-bans-police-use-of-crowd-control-devices-like-tear-gas-and-pepper-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Bans Police Use Of Crowd Control Devices Like Tear Gas And Pepper Spray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seattle City <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/council\/sawant\">Councilmember Kshama Sawant<\/a>\u00a0(District 3, Central Seattle), chair of the Council\u2019s Sustainability and Renters Rights Committee, issued this statement today after Seattle City Council unanimously adopted two ordinances she sponsored \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.legistar.com\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4564636&amp;GUID=90EDF5B4-7607-43BB-A99C-514C0B51CB56&amp;Options=ID%7CText%7C&amp;Search=chemical\">banning police use of chemical weapons and other so-called \u201ccrowd control\u201d devices<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.legistar.com\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4564635&amp;GUID=C24883AC-5654-4500-AEB6-587DD1026742&amp;Options=ID%7CText%7C&amp;Search=chokehold\">banning the police use of chokeholds<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur movement against racism and police violence made history today with the City Council\u2019s passage of the permanent bans on the police use of chemical weapons and other so-called \u2018crowd control\u2019 weapons, and on police chokeholds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, Seattle becomes the first US city to take these violent weapons out of the hands of police. But let\u2019s be clear: Our victory today was not a result of of enlightenment by the political establishment, but because of the thousands of ordinary people \u2013 led by young people, especially young people of color \u2013 who have marched in the streets (facing down horrific police violence), organized, spoken up at City Council meetings, and fought for systemic change.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur mass protest movement deserves all the credit for winning Seattle\u2019s historic ban on chemical weapons and chokeholds. If in the last few weeks you marched, rallied, organized, testified, or otherwise fought for Black Lives Matter and against police violence, then today\u2019s victory is your victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur movement had to overcome significant resistance from the political establishment, who even during today\u2019s debate were trying to water down the legislation, add in a huge loophole, or delay passage of the legislation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor many years, Seattle residents, especially from Black and brown communities, have been painfully aware of the systemic police violence in our city. Today\u2019s movement victory is historic, but it\u2019s only a start. It won\u2019t stop police from terrorizing our communities, young people, and peaceful protesters. We have to move forward from today to build our movement to defund the Seattle Police Department, to end police violence and brutality, and to fully demilitarize the police.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year, the Seattle Police Department budget is a staggering $409 million \u2013 fully 27 percent of the city\u2019s discretionary spending. I was the only councilmember last fall to vote against this appalling budget decision. My office has begun discussions with community activists, organizers, affordable housing developers, young Black and brown leaders, clergy, and others around cutting the police budget by at least 50 percent. In the next two weeks,&nbsp;<strong>my office will be fighting alongside the movement to bring forward our legislation to defund the police by at least 50 percent<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant\u00a0(District 3, Central Seattle), chair of the Council\u2019s Sustainability and Renters Rights Committee, issued this statement today after Seattle City Council unanimously adopted two ordinances she sponsored \u2013\u00a0banning police use of chemical weapons and other so-called \u201ccrowd control\u201d devices\u00a0and\u00a0banning the police use of chokeholds: \u201cOur movement against racism and police violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":135688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[54,37],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seattle Bans Police Use Of Crowd Control Devices Like Tear Gas And Pepper Spray - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-seattle-bans-police-use-of-crowd-control-devices-like-tear-gas-and-pepper-spray\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seattle Bans Police Use Of Crowd Control Devices Like Tear Gas And Pepper Spray - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant\u00a0(District 3, Central Seattle), chair of the Council\u2019s Sustainability and Renters Rights Committee, issued this statement today after Seattle City Council unanimously adopted two ordinances she sponsored \u2013\u00a0banning police use of chemical weapons and other so-called \u201ccrowd control\u201d devices\u00a0and\u00a0banning the police use of chokeholds: \u201cOur movement against racism and police violence [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-seattle-bans-police-use-of-crowd-control-devices-like-tear-gas-and-pepper-spray\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-16T01:41:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-16T01:43:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-BREAKING-NEWS-1024x576-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"T. 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