News about Kshama Sawant

Following a shooting outside a daycare center earlier this week, Council Member Kshama Sawant said the city should not bring police to the Central District neighborhood. On Monday, the incident occurred outside the A-4 Apple Learning Center, with a 47-year-old man being fired on the street. Through the window of the center, a bullet penetrated, and co-owner Appollonia Washington beckoned workers and children inside to 'army crawl' to the toilet and hide. The City Council and its representatives were chastised for allowing violence to 'plague' the area,' according to the facility's response.

Lieutenant Jessica Taylor, who worked with the Seattle Police Department for 23 years, received her notice, but rather than filling out a mandatory exit questionnaire, she decided to write a long-winded letter addressed to the police chief. She told Chief Adrian Diaz why she made the decision to retire in a 'unfiltered, raw, and unapologetic' 15-page rant in her own words. Taylor did not mince her words and attacked virtually every facet of law enforcement within the city, shaming them for completely failing the general public.

A parade in a Washington state city on July 4 had to be rescheduled to prevent a fentanyl-riddled homeless encampment for 'everyone's protection.' According to local reports, the Burien, Washington, July 4 parade route was modified to avoid a homeless encampment of up to 20 tents. Burien is unable to remove the encampment due to the fact that the police don't have the right to prohibit people from living on city property. Debra George, the city's business owners, said it was best to 'err on caution,' and that the encampment shouldn't take place in the city's 'commercial district.' Some company owners said they had lost clients because they no longer felt'safe' anymore.

After the city council rejected legislation that would have made public use a misdemeanor, photos show homeless people openly abusing drugs on the streets of Washington state city. When standing outside a liquor store, a man can be seen injecting heroin into his hand. On the pavements, people were seen sprawled out and hunched over, while others were strewn with paraphernalia. In 2022, there were 589 overdose deaths in Seattle, up 72% from 2021, according to the Seattle City Attorney's Office.

After the city's local council voted to include caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws, Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination on Tuesday. The step addresses an issue that is notably relevant to the area's South Asian diaspora, particularly the Indian and Hindu groups. The caste system in India is one of the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification. Kshama Sawant, an Indian American Seattle City Council representative, said, 'The struggle against caste discrimination is closely linked to the fight against all forms of oppression.'

After being called for police defunding, social activist Kshama Sawant, 49, is furious at police for failing to respond to claims of feces being tossed in her yard. After police didn't investigate her harassing emails and the bags of human feces, Sawant, a member of the Seattle City Council, wrote a letter to them. On October 13, the last report of filth was released, the same day a witness caught a 5-foot-4-inch man in the act. Since being denied a 5 percent cut from the police department budget, Sawant has been a strong promoter of defunding the services since 2020.