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Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?

13 August 2020

11:00 AM

13 August 2020

11:00 AM

Seattle

So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after the city council had voted to strip her department of roughly 130 of its 1,400 officers, with more such cuts promised in the future. Best, 54, was Seattle’s first black police chief.

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