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Tonight MLK Labor will hold a vote on whether to expel the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG), whose members spent a good part of the last two weeks gassing people protesting police brutality and then claiming victimhood.

The vote comes a week after the labor council tabled a motion from the Highline Education Association to boot the union from the network, which holds meaningful political sway in local elections (unlike SPOG itself). Highline also sent around a petition urging BIPOC union members to sign if they support expulsion. Hundreds have signed.

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The council ended up passing a resolution offered by two large unions, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW and UFCW 21, which said that SPOG could stay if its leadership admitted racism was "a structural problem in our society and in law enforcement," committed to "addressing racism within SPOG as an institutional actor," and agreed to meet with concerned members of the council's executive board for a chat. That meeting happened on Monday, and it doesn't seem like SPOG's Board of Directors impressed any fence-sitters with the depth and quality of their self-reflection.

In a letter to the executive board, SPOG's board acknowledged that "racism is a structural problem in our society," but didn't explicitly say in "law enforcement," as the resolution asks.

They also touted their "strong history of embracing police reform," quoting at length Mayor Jenny Durkan's recent praise of the department.

For some reason, they didn't mention the fact that SPOG's rank-and-file members ran out their previous President, Kevin Stuckey, who had actually once testified on behalf of a policy involving something other than skirting police accountability measures, for this guy:

SPOG's signatories also didn't mention that their president before Stuckey resigned after implying in a Facebook post that the Black Lives Matter movement was to blame for the deaths of Dallas police officers who were gunned down by an Army veteran.

Nor did they mention how cool and reformed they were when they negotiated a contract that made it "harder to fire police officers for misconduct and weakened police accountability." Nor did they mention SPD's attempt to rehire the cop who punched a woman in his backseat. No mea culpa for the cop whose lie partly led a man to commit suicide according to an investigation from the Office of Police Accountability, nor the cop who was recently fired for repeatedly making "derogatory and discriminatory remarks." No mention of the cop who continually punched a protester who was already on the ground, the cop who put his knee on the necks of two protesters downtown, etc. etc. etc.

They did mention, however, that they felt "misunderstood," "spurned," and "betrayed" by anyone who is not a local television news station or the Mayor, I guess, and they patted themselves on the back for continuing to "come to work every day to serve even those who reject us and insult us," as if the fine crew at Arby's don't work under similar conditions with less riot gear.

"That letter does not tell me that they have been doing anything wrong and they need to do anything better," said Jane Hopkins, executive vice president of SEIU 1199. "And there’s nowhere in that letter that even mentions Black Lives Matter. If you can’t say it, then how are you going to improve those lives?"

Hopkins said her union and other unions have made commitments to be anti-racist organizations, and they want to help SPOG do the same, "but at the same time it's difficult for us to work with them if they don’t see that there is a problem they need to change."

"We know we cannot have economic justice without racial justice, and it needs to be the core of what we do," Hopkins added.

Joe Mizrahi, secretary-treasurer of UFCW 21, who joined the council with 46,000 members in April, was in the meeting on Monday. He said SPOG's board made an effort to "check a box of compliance, but in my opinion lacked real reflection or a sense of responsibility for structures of racism in the police department and their role in fighting accountability measures over the last decade."

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