SEATTLE, Wash. – Protesters maintain control over a Capitol Hill police precinct office in Seattle this morning but the police chief says they’re not giving it up.
Chief Carmen Best talked with ABC’s Good Morning America today saying, “I am very angry about the situation that we have and at this point we just want to make sure that it gets resolved. We did not, for clarification, abandon the precinct. We did have to remove some personnel for a short period of time and then it became unsafe. You’ve seen the pictures and the photos of what’s going on, for us to safely put our officers back in there. We are currently working to get our officers back into the facility. We think it is really important that we have police presence there and that we are able to continue to do our work. So, again, we did not abandon the precinct.”
KOMO reports that city officials want to negotiate a quick end to the stand-off but the protesters don’t have any organized leadership.
Best says they last thing they want is a violent confrontation.
(Photos provided by Stephen Trinkaus)
