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  • 3 weeks ago | m.kuow.org | Amy Radil |Ashley Hiruko

    Adrian Diaz smiles and claps during a press conference where he was announced by Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell as the new permanent Seattle Police Chief on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at Seattle City Hall. KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer Seattle’s Office of Inspector General has released a long-awaited trove of documents undergirding the investigation that led Mayor Bruce Harrell to fire then-Seattle police chief Adrian Diaz for dishonesty last December.

  • Mar 28, 2025 | kuow.org | Ashley Hiruko

    Editor’s note: This article discusses suicide. If you are in crisis, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. The last messages 29-year-old Victoria Price sent to friends showed signs she was in trouble. “Goodbye. I can’t do this anymore,” Price wrote to a friend on Aug. 2, 2021. “I’ve thought about this for a while,” she wrote to another friend.

  • Mar 18, 2025 | kuow.org | Libby Denkmann |Ashley Hiruko |Hans Anderson

    For a year and a half, Monisha Harrell served as Senior Deputy Mayor of Seattle – the number two position in the executive office. The last name she shares with the Mayor, Bruce Harrell, is no coincidence. Monisha Harrell is the mayor’s niece. She was the first Black lesbian senior deputy mayor in the City of Seattle’s history, and she also says that her tenure with the city was marred by bullying and sexism.

  • Mar 14, 2025 | kuow.org | Ashley Hiruko

    Monisha Harrell was walking behind her uncle, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, in late 2022, when she overheard him say something to a colleague that stopped her in her tracks. “SDM Nazi.” SDM – she knew that was her. It stood for senior deputy mayor. Monisha Harrell later learned that SDM had become an inside joke to her uncle and the men on his executive team – to them, it stood for So Damn Mad or So Damn Mean. Monisha Harrell was stunned by the casual cruelty.

  • Mar 3, 2025 | kuow.org | Ashley Hiruko

    Rose Sanchez and her husband Jose Sanchez, shown here in 2019, said Mayor Bruce Harrell pointed a gun at them in 1996, outside of a casino in Iowa. Photo courtesy of Rose Sanchez Rose Sanchez may not remember every detail of the encounter between her family and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell from that late night in 1996. For example, she recalled Harrell driving a pickup truck outside the Ameristar riverboat casino in Iowa, when a police report stated he was in a red Jeep Cherokee.

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Ashley Hiruko
Ashley Hiruko @Ashleyhiruko
21 Mar 25

Great investigation by Erica Barnett. https://t.co/SUgJokCxTG

Ashley Hiruko
Ashley Hiruko @Ashleyhiruko
17 Mar 25

In case you missed this over the weekend: Former Senior Deputy Mayor Monisha Harrell described what it was like working for Mayor Bruce Harrell. https://t.co/hkYbDxM73P

Ashley Hiruko
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16 Mar 25

RT @AndrewBuncombe: 'You can't be successful without having the support of those around you': Ex-Seattle deputy mayor Monisha Harrell break…