Tacoma Man Arrested For Threats Against Seattle MayorTop Stories

April 01, 2017 17:23
Tacoma Man Arrested For Threats Against Seattle Mayor

Detectives arrested a Tacoma man for making electronic threats against the Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, announced by the Seattle Police Department on Friday. A 62 years old man was arrested on Thursday.

The police did not specify what matters prompted the man to make threats against Murray. The case remains an active and also ongoing criminal investigation.

Murray made national headlines in this week for filing a lawsuit against the President Donald Trump’s administration as it ramps up immigration raids and also threatens to cut funding from sanctuary cities.

Lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle, said the executive order creates uncertainty around the city's budget.

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According to the lawsuit, Trump is threatening to take away $55 million in the federal money for city operating expenses, $99 million for construction and also equipment and $2.6 million in federal assistance for the Seattle police.

When asked why he has been so visibly defiant when it comes to the Trump administration’s immigration plans, the mayor responded and said that “The intensity is because I spent time in classrooms and in this city, and I have seen how scared those kids are that their parents, their aunts and uncles or they themselves are going to be ripped out of this city.”

An estimated 150,000 unauthorized immigrants live in the Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue, according to the list released by Pew Research Center.

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