Community and Legal Strategies to Stop Police Violence

A team of faculty, staff and students at University of Washington are organizing a panel discussion on police violence as a public health problem, scheduled May 24 in Kane Hall 110 (6:30 pm). The sponsoring unit is Health Alliance International and the UW Department of Global Health.

The date was deliberately chosen to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the death of Charleena Lyles.

Speakers include Katrina Johnson (who is a member of Charleena Lyles’ family), Michele Storms (ACLU), Clarence Spigner (UW prof who teaches a class on police violence), Jorge Torres (who just settled a police violence case after police accosted him at a Seattle Black Lives Matter demonstration), Jesse Hagopian (who has been a supporter of the Lyles family and had his own Seattle police violence encounter), Norm Stamper (former Seattle Police Chief) and Michele Storms (Deputy Director of ACLU Washington). The panel will be moderated by Clarence Spigner, faculty of the UW School of Public Health.