Today is Juneteenth; Legislation on Crowd Control Weapons, Chokeholds, and Badge Display; West Seattle Bridge Update June 19; Budget Committee Update; COVID Update
June 19th, 2020Today is Juneteenth On Wednesday, I joined my City Council colleagues in unanimously approving a proclamation recognizing today, June 19th, as Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African-Americans in Texas first learned that slavery had been abolished two and a half years earlier by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. The first Juneteenth celebration […]
Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Councilmember Herbold, COVID-19, Education, Office of Police Accountability, Parks and Recreation, Proclamations, Public Health, Transportation.
Tags: Badge Display, Budget Committee Update, Chokeholds, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, Crowd Control Weapons, Juneteenth, police, Police Brutality, SPD, West Seattle Bridge
Tags: Badge Display, Budget Committee Update, Chokeholds, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, Crowd Control Weapons, Juneteenth, police, Police Brutality, SPD, West Seattle Bridge