Summary

SEATTLE'S MAYOR RESPONDED TO CRITICISM AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING OVER POLICE TACTICS USED AT THE W-T-O CONFERENCE LAST WEEK.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 175210
Story Slug MAYOR RESPONDS TO CRITICISM OVER WTO (12/9/1999)
Location SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Format PKG
Date 12/09/1999
Archive Time 27:27
TRT 1:42
Supers Seattle, Washington Paul Schell, Seattle Mayor MOS's Ron Corning, Reporting
Video Description PEOPLE CLAPPING, MAYOR AT TABLE, SOT WITH MAN, SOT WITH MAN, MAYOR SAYING HE WON'T STEP DOWN, PAN OF PACKED AUDIENCE, SOT WITH WOMAN, SOT WITH MAN, CHIEF OF POLICE AT EARLIER PRESS CONFERENCE, SOT WITH MAN, SOT WITH MAN, FILE OF WTO PROTESTS, MAN IN AUDIENCE
Description SEATTLE'S MAYOR RESPONDED TO CRITICISM AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING OVER POLICE TACTICS USED AT THE W-T-O CONFERENCE LAST WEEK.
Script LEAD: IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A MEETING TO ADDRESS CONCERNS. INSTEAD, THERE WERE TALES OF POLICE BRUTALITY, TEAR GAS AND TERROR ON THE STREETS OF SEATTLE. SEATTLE RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS GATHERED AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY TO VOICE THEIR CONCERNS TO MAYOR PAUL SCHELL OVER THE HANDLING OF LAST WEEK'S W-T-O DEMONSTRATORS. RON CORNING REPORTS ON THIS HEATED DEBATE. SCRIPT: SEATTLE MAYOR PAUL SCHELL FACED HARSH CRITICISM BY RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS ALIKE AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD IN THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A PACKED ROOM FULL OF ANGRY PEOPLE SOUNDED OFF OVER WHAT THEY FELT WAS POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE HANDLING OF DEMONSTRATORS AT LAST WEEK'S WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE. POLICE USED TEAR GAS AND RUBBER BULLETS TO CONTROL CROWDS OF PROTESTERS AND MADE OVER 100 ARRESTS. IN LIGHT OF THE OUTCRY, THE CITY OF SEATTLE PLANS TO HIRE A NATIONAL EXPERT TO REVIEW ITS RESPONSE TO PROTESTERS AT LAST WEEK'S WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE. ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF ED JOINER MAINTAINS THAT POLICE PLANS FOR THE W-T-O WERE SUFFICIENT AND THAT HIS DEPARTMENT WAS "FAIRLY SATISFIED" THAT IT WAS PREPARED. MAYOR PAUL SCHELL STOOD BY HIS ACTIONS AND REFUSED TO RESIGN. EARLIER IN THE WEEK THE POLICE CHIEF TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION EARLY IN LIGHT OF THE POLITICAL HEAT THE DEPARTMENT WAS TAKING OVER THE W-T-O SECURITY TACTICS.
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Keywords

WTO
POLICE BRUTALITY
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