Mayor Murray Ups Ante Using Ferguson Decision
Wow, just wow. This from Publicola in its coverage of the Seattle marches related to the Ferguson decision (bold mine). At the press conference prior to the arrests Murray said: "Bike officers do a great job. Officers will be out there [tonight] on bicycles." He added, "We're not Ferguson," citing the lack of African Americans on the Ferguson police force ["only three," he claimed] saying Seattle had "a number of African American officers." However, saying there was "an enormous gulf of mistrust" between African American communities and the police, he added that, "race remains our greatest challenge. We have to confront the challenge painfully again and again." He said there was "tremendous hurt in the African American community" about the grand jury's decision in "the murder of Mr. Brown." Murray boiled the issue down to the Seattle school system. "We are failing our young...