Microsoft Teams chat messages between the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and Seattle’s IT department directors on June 8, 2020 cast new light onto the decision to abandon Seattle’s East Precinct. The records obtained through public records requests appear to show that SPD and the City planned to abandon and evacuate the precinct itself at the … Continue reading “Please Stop on the Teams Chat”: New Records Expose Mayor Durkan’s Role in Abandonment of East Precinct