(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) The brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has lit a spark of national and global protest by youth and working people fed up with this racist, violent, and deeply unequal society under capitalism.
MILL CREEK, Wash. (AP) - The mayor of a suburban Seattle community has resigned before the end of her term. On 06/08/2020By Kevin SchofieldIn mayor In the past week there have been multiple calls for Mayor Jenny Durkan to resign, which in some ways is nothing new since she has had her share of detractors ever since she took office. Suburban Seattle Mayor Resigns Before Her Term Has Ended The mayor of a Seattle suburb has resigned before the end of her term. Here’s the catch: Gonzalez would have to resign her Council seat to do so. As for the timing of that, the Charter specifies:Following these rules, if the Mayor were to resign tomorrow, an election would be held in November to select a new Mayor to fill out the last year of Durkan’s term, and Gonzalez would have the option to accept the position of Mayor until the November election results are certified. In the past week there have been multiple calls for Mayor Jenny Durkan to resign, ... What happens if the Mayor resigns or is impeached?
Assistant Chief Willie Barrington as they plan to remove makeshift barricades protesters had put up in the streets next to a Seattle police precinct Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Seattle. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The police, under Durkan’s leadership, have deployed militaristic tactics in full riot gear to try to spread fear among ordinary people. All rights reserved. Carmen Best will step down as Seattle’s Police Chief—a decision that comes after the City Council voted to cut the police department’s budget by nearly $4 million. Rodney Maine displays his new "Black Lives Matter" tattoo after asking a passerby to take his photo in front of a plywood-covered and fenced-off Seattle police precinct Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Seattle.
Video footage reveals that the police appear to come prepared with instructions and equipment to orchestrate violence.That is why, as a socialist elected representative accountable to Seattle’s working people, it is my duty to join with theShe aligned with the Trump administration and the police in seeking to get the police department out from under the federal oversight of the consent decree – even as police brutality towards and killings of black and brown people, poor and homeless neighbors, and those facing mental illness, continue unabated. Durkan and the city’s Democratic Party establishment have utterly failed ordinary people.
The Council must provide he Mayor written notice of the charges against her and their intention to hold a hearing. Democrats in Seattle, Washington are calling for the resignation of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan in the aftermath of police brutality during protests over the death of George Floyd. The initial call for Durkan’s resignation has in fact been led by many of these grassroots Democratic Party activists. Hundreds of protesters, aided by a sympathetic City Council member, stormed Seattle 's City Hall Tuesday night to demand the mayor's resignation… Demonstrator Keith Brown, right, talks with Seattle Fire Dept. MILL CREEK, Wash. (AP) — The mayor of a suburban Seattle community has resigned before the end of her term.Mill Creek Mayor Pam Pruitt in a letter Monday to City Council members said she was stepping down to “focus on friends, family and helping those in need.”“I’ve missed spending time with my friends and family,” Pruitt wrote in the letter A pending lawsuit against Mill Creek alleges that Pruitt sought to oust four top city officials after they filed formal complaints in 2018 about the actions of former city manager Rebecca Polizzotto, whom the council fired amid allegations that she mistreated her staff and misused her city credit card.An attorney for former city spokeswoman Joni Kirk, one of the whistleblowers, wrote in the lawsuit that Pruitt wrote negative articles about the four city officials and addressed them in a hostile manner during meetings.Police Chief Greg Elwin, another whistleblower, left his post with Mill Creek earlier this year after an investigation found that he failed to arrest a relative living in his home who was a fugitive and didn’t report a threatening comment made by an employee.Pruitt declined to comment to The Daily Herald about the nature of her resignation.Her resignation came as the city faces a pandemic-related budget crisis that may reduce its roughly $30 million budget by about 7%.Pruitt's term was due to end in 2021.
She served as a councilwoman through the late 1980s and early 1990s and was mayor in 1992 and 1993.
Seattle has seen 12 consecutive nights of protests in the wake of George Floyd’s police-involved death in Minneapolis.