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Public commenters press Seattle City Council to push ICE off city grounds, curb surveillance and fund services
Summary
More than two dozen public speakers at the Feb. 10 Seattle City Council meeting urged the council to restrict ICE activity on city property, end surveillance practices (including ALPR/CCTV) they say are being weaponized against migrants, and redirect funding to accessible services.
Dozens of people in person and online used the council’s public comment period on Feb. 10 to press Seattle leaders to take immediate action against ICE enforcement and to curb expanding surveillance systems.
Speakers repeatedly criticized a Jan. 27 presentation by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office that, they said, included unredacted and graphic images of survivors. Amber, a volunteer with the Greenlight Project, said the presentation “featured unredacted, identifiable images of brutalized, bloodied, and tortured women” and accused prosecutors and some committee members of selectively using survivor stories to advance criminalization. ‘‘We believe that it was part of a larger pattern of instrumentalization and exploitation of survivors,’’ Amber said.
Madison Zakuy…
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