Seattle Athletes Pipe Up
Diverging statements arrive from Seattle athletes: Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger tweets that protesters need to be treated like animals while Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin calls for attorneys general across the country to investigate police training.
Seattle, known for Sub Pop and Microsoft, is a predominantly white city, but it's also home to one of nation's most diverse ZIP codes, Rainier Valley. What diversity remains, though, is increasingly threatened by gentrification, with tensions flaring recently over a white-owned dispensary moving into a previously black neighborhood.
Notably, Clevenger is having a terrible season.