DOJ Files for Restraining Order to Halt Ban on Tear Gas Use by Seattle Cops
Source: Newsweek
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion in a U.S. District Court for a temporary restraining order against a Seattle City Council directive requiring the Seattle Police Department (SPD) not to use tear gas against protesters. The directive was set to go into effect on Saturday, July 25.
The DOJ's filing aligns with the views of SPD Chief Carmen Best. Best expects this weekend's protests to have more attendees in response to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's Friday announcement that federal law enforcement agents will be entering the city over the weekend to protect federal buildings.
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"While City Council may have intended the ban on these less-lethal implements to prevent the use of excessive force," the DOJ's court filing said, "the Directive ... removes them without providing training or alternative mechanisms to de-escalate or resolve the danger situations officers routinely find themselves in."
As such, the filing continues, banning tear gas increases the likelihood that officers will resort to use of hands-on forcelike punches, kicks, batons and potentially deadly forceto stop any potential violence by unruly citizens.
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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/doj-files-restraining-order-halt-ban-tear-gas-use-seattle-cops-1520450
msongs
(67,420 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)"What does he have to lose"?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Tick tock.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Go protest, keep your distance, dont be provocative in any way. When the dark falls go home.
This is the dotard shit show...please please dont give him what he wants! He wants tear gas, beatings and in general violence. His disguised goons will mix with the protesters and cause trouble.
This is what the protesters finally did in St Louis and it was effective.
LeftInTX
(25,380 posts)Stay home
But who am I?
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)jorgevlorgan
(8,301 posts)What stupid judge Grant's that I hope loses their seat very soon
KelleyKramer
(8,969 posts)I'm so old I remember when Republicans thought a leader who gasses his own people was a bad thing
usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)chemical use against it's own citizens.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)DOJ. doesn't have any standing with Seattle decisions!