With reporting by Hannah Saunders
A flurry of community meetings are adding to efforts to address a spate of gun violence that left a student injured and a woman killed in separate Central District shootings last week.
Tuesday night, District 3 representative on the Seattle City Council Joy Hollingsworth will hold her first community safety meeting with constituents since the shootings in a session at Capitol Hill’s Seattle Central College.
Hollingsworth stepped forward to take the microphone at a public safety forum held by Mayor Bruce Harrell that had been organized before the shootings but ended up being dominated by the issues related to gun violence in the city.
“When we can’t keep our kids safe, it’s a failure on us as adults and I really take that very seriously being in this role,” Hollingsworth said at Harrell’s forum last week. “Any time a child is hurt—especially at school—I take that very personally.” Continue reading