Thats the officer on the left, and at the bottom of the screen grab is his fist making contact with the womans upturned face.
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  • Dash-cam video shows SPD officer Adley Shepherd striking Miyekko Durden-Bosley on June 22.

Mikyekko Durden-Bosley Files Claim with the City: Police officer Adley Shepherd, who is black, punched Durden-Bosley in the face after she kicked out at him as she was arrested last June. In December, King County prosecutors declined to charge Shepherd, who is on leave from the department. The NAACP has called for his firing, and now Durden-Bosley has filed a claim with the city for $1 million in damages. You can watch video of the incident here.

Officer Cynthia Whitlatch Placed on Leave: Police chief Kathleen O'Toole moved her to desk duty last week, but now Whitlatch has had her badge and gun taken from her and been put on leave. William Wingate, the 70-year-old man who Whitlatch arrested last summer for carrying a golf club, will attend a protest walk featuring lots of golf clubs this Saturday. Wingate has filed a $750,000 claim with the city alleging discrimination.

Is Mayor Ed Murray Blowing a Chance to Achieve Reforms in Negotiations with the Police Union? It's the so-called "Super Bowl" of police accountability. The negotiations are ongoing, but for now, there's cause for a concern.

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  • The owner of two Subway franchises in Seattle, David Jones, tells the Seattle Times that the largest fast-food chain in the world provides him with marketing materials and support, but it takes 12.5 percent of his revenue. He says it's "unfair" that the city's new minimum-wage law treats him as a business with 500 employees.

Business Owners Are Worried About Seattle's Minimum-Wage Law: "Uncertainty remains widespread," among local business owners, the Seattle Times reports, about how to implement Seattle's minimum-wage increase when the law goes into effect on April 1, bumping wages up to approximately the $11 per hour mark from about $9.47. How about this? If you're paying your workers poverty wages—take a deep breath, I know this is complicated—respect the law that workers fought for and start paying them more. One Seattle grocery store is already paying its workers $15 an hour, seven years ahead of schedule.

What Is Manweller-Splaining? It's a lot like mansplaining, except when state representative Matt Manweller does it, he gives us a lengthy soliloquy wherein he questions—he's just asking!—whether minimum-wage workers today have "come by" the "callouses" on their hands "honestly." Also, he says to the "kids": Just get a better job or go to college! Duh! The workers had come to Olympia to testify in favor of a law that would raise the state minimum wage to $12 per hour.

Tacoma Man Walked Free After Allegedly Assaulting Girlfriend: The following evening, he allegedly murdered his girlfriend's friend and her aunt. KIRO 7 reports that if the state's domestic-violence laws had been enforced, the man might have been in jail instead of at home on the night of the killings.

FBI Mixed Intelligence-Gathering with Community Outreach in Seattle: That's according to a new report on the FBI's interactions with the local Somali community, the Seattle Globalist reports.

West Coast Ports Threaten to Lock Out Workers: If there isn't a breakthrough in labor negotiations between longshoremen and the Pacific Maritime Association, KPLU reports.

The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Is Out: But I'm not linking to it! Go read this takedown of "ideal body image" bullshit by local writer Hanna Brooks Olsen instead.

Orcas chillaxing at the beach: