They’re getting away with it
Former Mayor Jenny Durkan and former Seattle Police Department Chief Carmen Best will not be facing any charges related to text messages deleted from their phones during the 2020 protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police. State law makes it a class C felony for public officials to “remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal, or obliterate a record, map, book, paper, document, or other thing filed or deposited in a public office, or with any public officer.” ...