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Yes and leaders of local black groups ended up denouncing it and asking for her to come back: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/chief-best-asked-cancel-ret...

Unfortunately after all the lies and vitriol from activists, I don’t blame her for stepping down and quietly collecting her pension. Here, there have been weeks of mobs showing up at the homes of the mayor, city council, and the police chief, committing violence, destroying property, and threatening neighbors. Take a look at this account of what happened at the police chief’s neighborhood (https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2020/08/02/hundreds-of-blm-support...):

> A crowd of about 200 persons, mostly white men and women in their twenties, were dressed in black with masks and black hoods and carried signs that read “Black Lives Matter.” Black Lives Matter protestors shouted profanity and insults at neighbors, took license plate information on vehicles, took pictures of homes, and asked little kids who lived in the neighborhood what schools they attended.



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