How often, if ever, do you have serious concerns about your physical safety when you are at work?
Police1 Poll Results: Nov 09, 2021 - Nov 18, 2021| Nearly always | 13 % |
| Often | 26 % |
| Sometimes | 44 % |
| Hardly ever | 15 % |
| Never | 2 % |
| Total | 983 |
Maybe, if we have some more of this, it will help. Maybe, but not likely.
Nov 15, 2021
By Lewis Kamb
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — A federal court ruling will allow two Seattle police officers to proceed with their lawsuit claiming that City Councilmember Kshama Sawant defamed them when she publicly called their 2016 fatal shooting of Che Taylor "a blatant murder at the hands of police."
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reverses an earlier dismissal of the case, reinstates the claims of Officers Michael Spaulding and Scott Miller, and sends their case back to a federal court in Seattle.
U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman had dismissed Spaulding's and Miller's third amended complaint in December 2020, after ruling it had failed to adequately claim that Sawant's remarks were "of and concerning" them.
Pechman based the dismissal on the fact that Sawant didn't identify the officers by name when the council member decried the shooting during a rally five days afterward outside the Seattle Police Department.
In the 28-page opinion issued Wednesday, the appeals court panel reversed Pechman's ruling, holding that "Sawant's own words suggested that her remarks were directed not only at the police generally but also at the individual officers involved in the shooting."
Court ruling lets Seattle police officers proceed with lawsuit against council member
The officers claim a council member defamed them by referring to a fatal police shooting as "a blatant murder"Nov 15, 2021
By Lewis Kamb
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — A federal court ruling will allow two Seattle police officers to proceed with their lawsuit claiming that City Councilmember Kshama Sawant defamed them when she publicly called their 2016 fatal shooting of Che Taylor "a blatant murder at the hands of police."
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reverses an earlier dismissal of the case, reinstates the claims of Officers Michael Spaulding and Scott Miller, and sends their case back to a federal court in Seattle.
U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman had dismissed Spaulding's and Miller's third amended complaint in December 2020, after ruling it had failed to adequately claim that Sawant's remarks were "of and concerning" them.
Pechman based the dismissal on the fact that Sawant didn't identify the officers by name when the council member decried the shooting during a rally five days afterward outside the Seattle Police Department.
In the 28-page opinion issued Wednesday, the appeals court panel reversed Pechman's ruling, holding that "Sawant's own words suggested that her remarks were directed not only at the police generally but also at the individual officers involved in the shooting."
I hope they bankrupt her socialist ass and she has to live under a bridge with the scumbags she incites.
She is an enemy of the state. She should be treated as such.
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