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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Blood In The Streets: Seattle Police Backlash

By Mona Goldwater

Seattle Metro Editor

As you know if you live in, or near, Seattle, there have been numerous incidents over the last year of the police allegedly, and actually, over-reacting, sometimes fatally. This over-reaction may or may not stem from several incidents last year where police were gunned down in cold blood, including the ambush murder of four cops in a Lakewood coffee shop.

People have been reacting in various ways, from protests, to videotaping the police anytime they seem them pull someone over or stop them. This morning, Kelly O of The Stranger reported on the Stranger blog (The Slog) that "somebody's hijacked a whole bunch of Seattle Times newspaper boxes, replacing the display copies with another copy that looks like this:"

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