Carmen Best, Seattle's first Black woman police chief, says she was excluded from conversations around reimagining the future of policing, which made it 'very difficult to move forward and make the changes needed.'
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announces her resignation at a press conference at Seattle City Hall on Aug. 11. Her departure comes after months of protests against police brutality and votes by the city council to defund her department.Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announces her resignation at a press conference at Seattle City Hall on Aug. 11. Her departure comes after months of protests against police brutality and votes by the city council to defund her department.
Best said she was excluded from conversations around reimagining the future of policing, which made it"very difficult to move forward and make the changes needed to move the department in the right direction."Best is leaving her post after nearly 30 years with the force, during which time she held almost every position within the department.
"We haven't always been on the right side of history," Best said of law enforcement broadly,"but I think there's a real movement and real energy to make sure that we are."You're leaving with so much stuff going on, in the middle of ongoing protests, and in the middle of this whole national debate over police and how we should best police our cities.
How do you answer President Trump and his supporters when they say cities like Seattle — cities being run by Democrats — they are a mess, and that only he can come in and fix things and restore order?. ... Many can be peaceful demonstrators, but we also have people showing up who are rioters, who are breaking property, who are assaulting people, who are trying to set the precinct on fire, and that is criminal activity. And we do need to address it.
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