Karen Koehler, a partner in the law firm, Stritmatter, Kessler, Koehler and Moore, which represents most of the 12 clients that filed claims against the city of Seattle Monday, stemming from police actions at recent protests. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
Karen Koehler, a partner in the law firm, Stritmatter, Kessler, Koehler and Moore, which represents most of the 12 clients that filed claims against the city of Seattle Monday, stemming from police actions at recent protests. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
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Karen Koehler, a partner in the law firm, Stritmatter, Kessler, Koehler and Moore, which represents most of the 12 clients that filed claims against the city of Seattle Monday, stemming from police actions at recent protests. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
Karen Koehler, a partner in the law firm, Stritmatter, Kessler, Koehler and Moore, which represents most of the 12 clients that filed claims against the city of Seattle Monday, stemming from police actions at recent protests. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
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A dozen protesters file claims against Seattle, King County, Washington, claiming police negligence, excessive force

Seattle's Office of Police Accountability has 28 separate investigations open regarding officers' actions in the recent protests.

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Aspiring Baseball Umpire–Christine Wren is an attractive 26-year-old girl who aspires to be a major league baseball umpire someday. She has worked minor League games, and in Los Angeles Sunday she worked behind the plate calling balls and strikes as the dodgers played a practice game with the University of Southern California Trojans. 1975 Christine Wren, baseball’s only woman umpire, has had a slow, difficult time earning professional respect in ‘the Northwest League. She says in her job she is still treated as a woman first, an umpire second. Eugene, Ore. ‚Äî The sixtyish male chauvinist pig sitting in the stands behind home plate, a golf cap pulled over his head, was waiting for her. The moment Christine Wren, pro baseball’s only woman umpire, showed up for the pregame conference, her pony tail dangling from under her blue cap, he started.

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A Peregrine Falcon chick that still has baby fuzz on the top of its head, looks out from a service platform under the west end of the West Seattle Bridge where it landed after its first flight last week. The chick decided that was enough flying for one day and laid down to take a nap after its maiden flight. The Falcon baby came from a man made nest installed under the bridge by the Department of Transportation about 20 years ago. The Falcon parents recently had three chicks. One landed on West Marginal Way after it tried to fly from its nest and was killed by a vehicle. The second chick landed on the low bridge and was taken to PAWS until it is ready to fly, and this chick, waiting for its wings to mature so it can safely fly, hunt, and survive. Linesonly LO LO LO Photographed on June 16, 2020. 214317
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