Protesters stamp out attemptto light American flag on fire

Twice a small band of pro-testers attempted to light anAmerican flag on fire duringdemonstrations against policebrutality on Sunday in down-town Spokane.

And twice fellow demon-strators stamped out the flames.

The protest against policebrutality had started to thin outSunday evening, leaving a group

of a couple of hundred protestersstanding in the entrance of River-front Park, when a white manwalked out from the crowd andstarted burning an Americanflag.

That’s when Lysa Cole, ayoung Black woman in a hoodieand sweatpants, walked up,stomped out the fire, and tookaway the flag.

“I was just hurt because peo-

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A $1.5 million roundabout atthe intersection of Freya Streetand the Palouse Highway.

A $500,000 pedestrian andbike pathway along Garland Av-enue, from Shaw Middle Schoolto Market Street.

A $600,000 project to con-struct an arterial on, and an ex-tension of, 12th Avenue betweenDeer Heights Road and FlintRoad, near where Spokane be-comes Airway Heights.

A $2.1 million project to re-place left turns with J-turns atMeadow Lane Road and U.S. 195.

These are a few of the nineprojects the city of Spokane plansto add to what sounds like a blandtechnical document, but is actu-ally an important guide for whattransportation projects will be-come a reality in the near future.

While the city has a long list ofvisions, ideas and plans it hopesto pursue, the Six Year Compre-

hensive Street Program is whereprojects go when the city intendsto see them through and has atleast some of the funding in handto make that happen.

“Effectively, once it gets in tothe (six-year) program, the focusand the intent is to accomplishthem,” said Katherine Miller, thecity’s director of integrated capi-tal management.

But some observers haveraised questions about how proj-

ects make it to this list – andwhether the process of doing sois sufficiently transparent.

“As far as the process goes, it isa frustrating process, becausethis is a critical program and pro-cess for how the city prioritizeswhat street projects they’re go-ing to fund,” said Jessica Engel-man, chair of SpokAT, a local ac-tive transportation group. “But it

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Thousands of people gatheredin downtown Spokane for the se-cond straight Sunday to protestpolice brutality following thedeath of a Black man in policecustody in Minneapolis.

A series of speakers andmarches that began at 2 p.m. andlasted through sundown re-mained largely peaceful, withthe crowd calling for police re-forms, up to and including de-funding the department. As the

sun began to set, some men car-rying rifles began appearingdowntown, as several hundredremaining protesters marchedthrough the downtown streetsclaiming their right to protest,stopping at the Courthouse andending near the Intermodal Cen-ter downtown.

Police said they used a law en-forcement helicopter thatbuzzed overhead most of the dayto monitor the march. The infor-mation was used by police

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SECOND MARCH IS PEACEFULVOCAL, PASSIONATE CROWD

SEVERAL THOUSAND STRONGCALLS FOR POLICE REFORMS

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A man offers free hugs as thousands of protesters supporting Black Lives Matter leave Riverfront Park on their way to march across the Monroe Street Bridge on Sunday.

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