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2020-09-13 Fifth Column
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Federal prosecutors take over Seattle protester cases, concerning local attorneys
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[KUOW.ORG] This week the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle announced its eighth arrest related to events during this summer’s protests against racism and police brutality.Defense attorneys say the Justice Department is going out of its way to try to discredit the protests.
But U.S. Attorney Brian Moran said his Seattle office is focused on cases like arson or firearms violations that he says are hurting the protest message.
That includes the big protest in Seattle the night of May 30. People took guns out of police vehicles and set the cars on fire, leading to three federal cases so far.
The next night, a man was arrested after being accused of striking a police officer in the face with a can of beer, and of carrying an improvised firearm.
Stephanie Knightlinger, a senior deputy prosecutor with the King County Prosecutors Office, said she was preparing to charge that man, Devinare Parker, in King County Superior Court.
"We really worked with the Seattle police detective," Knightlinger said. "We had to make sure he did things like test-fire the firearm, it was an unusual sawed-off homemade shotgun that [Parker] brought to this protest."
But then she found out that federal prosecutors were reviewing Parker’s case.
"They simply say, look we’re interested in this case, we want to look at the firearm," she said.
Moran's office charged Parker with possession of a destructive device, and the state charges were dismissed. Parker is now in federal custody.
Moran, the U.S. attorney for western Washington, said that he’s horror-stricken at the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and that he's determined to protect First Amendment rights. But he said some acts committed during the Seattle protests are taking away from those conversations.
"It’s destructive to that important conversation that we in Seattle have had going on since Jenny Summer of Love Durkan
 ...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone...
was U.S. attorney with the consent decree. So, lots of emotions," he said. "And unfortunately what I’m spending most of my time on now is the criminal agitators and not the more important message of, what do we need to do to get this ship righted."
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