Hanna Brooks Olsen on Twitter: "what’s always struck me as weird re: the mourning badge: Why do something that you KNOW will be upsetting to the public, who will assume you’re doing it to conceal your identity? Just wear a lapel pin. Unless..... there’s something else going on...... https://t.co/QjiilQ46zq" / Twitter

This is not new at all. They do this every protest, and give this same answer every time. If it’s a gesture made in good faith, it’s a weird one because, without fail, it is criticized. ESPECIALLY considering there are other options in the uniform code. seattle.gov/police-manual/

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Amy Radil at KUOW

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May 31, 2020

At Sunday presser @carmenbest says “Our nametags are there for anybody who wants to know. “ Says officers wore black on badges in mourning for 2 lost in state. And @seattlepd has strenuous review: "No one is going to use force and go unchecked and unnoticed.” @KUOW

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Hanna Brooks Olsen

@mshannabrooks

what’s always struck me as weird re: the mourning badge: Why do something that you KNOW will be upsetting to the public, who will assume you’re doing it to conceal your identity? Just wear a lapel pin. Unless..... there’s something else going on...... kuow.org/stories/why-th

8:30 PM · May 31, 2020

It seems to me that the Chief of Police could amend the uni code to be like “mourning badges are cool except when you’re dealing with a lot of people and then you need to make your identification 100% clear” and then we wouldn’t have to have this conversation every year.

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Hanna Brooks Olsen

@mshannabrooks

May 31, 2020

(And by “could” I mean “could bring it to the union to discuss and probably get nowhere” because SPOG is the only union in existence that I don’t stan and they’ve made it clear that any and all public-facing reforms are not of interest)

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