A Man Stabbed a Deputy. He Was Out for $2,500.
A man at a Shoreline grocery store allegedly told an employee, "I kill him, I kill the police, they kill me, everybody dies today." When deputies arrived, body camera footage shows him pulling a knife and slashing one of them in the arm. Prosecutors called him "an obvious danger to the community" and asked for $75,000 bail. The judge set it at $25,000. He walked out for about $2,500.
Then he skipped his arraignment. The warrant came with bail raised to $150,000. Too late. He's gone. Meanwhile, the Washington Supreme Court just heard arguments on a proposal from public defenders to loosen the bail rules even further. Charlie Harger on a system that let a man accused of stabbing a deputy walk for less than the price of a used Buick.
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