"A vocal group of students and faculty at the University of Washington have demanded that campus police be disarmed, saying officers are racist and the department is guilty of institutional racism.The recent unrest largely centers on an incident on campus Sunday, March 6, in which an officer arrested a visiting male on a felony warrant, The Daily student newspaper reports.
The arrested man was among a small group of Seattle Center College students visiting the campus with Amman Girma, a black academic adviser in the Department of Global Health.
Girma claims officers racially profiled his friends, held them at gunpoint, and “humiliated” them,
The Daily reports, adding Girma is currently on leave..."
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