An influential labor group in Seattle voted to kick the city’s police union out of the group because it failed to “dismantle racism,” the Associated Press …
An influential labor group in Seattle voted to kick the city’s police union out of the group because it failed to “dismantle racism,” the Associated Press reported Thursday.
The King County Labor Council voted Wednesday night to expel the Seattle Police Officers Guild from its organization, which is politically influential and is made up of 150 unions, the Associated Press reported.
The vote comes after weeks of protests and riots across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes. The incident also brought to the fore the role of police unions in holding officers accused of misconduct accountable. (RELATED:Three California Police Unions Call For National Reforms To ‘Root Out’ Racist Officers)
”Any union that is part of our labor council needs to be actively working to dismantle racism in their institution and society at large,” the labor council said on Twitter after the vote.
