Jared Brown
@jaredbrown.bsky.social
Seattle-based journalist,
@NPR.org contributor, aspiring yogi.
Read my newsletter: Truth2PowerPNW.news
Bylines: KNKX, Seattle Times, The (Tacoma) News Tribune, Kitsap Sun, The Spokesman-Review.
@NPR.org contributor, aspiring yogi.
Read my newsletter: Truth2PowerPNW.news
Bylines: KNKX, Seattle Times, The (Tacoma) News Tribune, Kitsap Sun, The Spokesman-Review.
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Jared Brown
@jaredbrown.bsky.social
· Mar 4
I quit ‘the news’—not Journalism. Support my book on Manny Ellis, PNW cop killings & cover-ups
Less information, more wisdom. Introducing Truth to Power Northwest, a digital civil rights magazine fueled by community.
www.truth2powerpnw.news
Help me write a book about not just Manny, but Jesse, Branden, and countless others killed, and the broken system that denies accountability while enabling ongoing harm. #JusticeforMannyEllis #JusticeforJesseSarey #JusticeforBrandenVorak #Truth2Power
So much admiration for @ericacbarnett.bsky.social for doing the sort of accountability work that few in Seattle have the guts for. Brainstorming a regular feature for truth2powerpnw.news on shoddy cops & courts reporting along these lines…
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So much admiration for @ericacbarnett.bsky.social for doing the sort of accountability work that few in Seattle have the guts for. Brainstorming a regular feature for truth2powerpnw.news on shoddy cops & courts reporting along these lines…
Reposted by Jared Brown
New Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes outlined his strategy in a presentation to the Seattle City Council, pledging the department would put scandals behind it and forge ahead with new resolve.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/04/c...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/04/c...
March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes outlined his strategy in a presentation to the Seattle City Council, pledging the department would put scandals behind it and forge ahead with new resolve.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/04/c...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/04/c...
Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of #MannyEllis' killing by #TacomaPolice. As fate would have it, I was in town for some appointments. After I decided to make the walk from 7-Eleven to the intersection of 96th & Ainsworth and was just about to head home, a TPD cruiser blew the red light.
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of #MannyEllis' killing by #TacomaPolice. As fate would have it, I was in town for some appointments. After I decided to make the walk from 7-Eleven to the intersection of 96th & Ainsworth and was just about to head home, a TPD cruiser blew the red light.
Something Jon Stewart said on @thedailyshow.com about national political media earlier this year has been stuck in my head:
“We must be vigilant. But part of vigilance is discernment.”
My latest, and first in a while, at a new url: truth2powerpnw.news
“We must be vigilant. But part of vigilance is discernment.”
My latest, and first in a while, at a new url: truth2powerpnw.news
I quit ‘the news’—not Journalism. Support my book on Manny Ellis, PNW cop killings & cover-ups
Less information, more wisdom. Introducing Truth to Power Northwest, a digital civil rights magazine fueled by community.
www.truth2powerpnw.news
March 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Something Jon Stewart said on @thedailyshow.com about national political media earlier this year has been stuck in my head:
“We must be vigilant. But part of vigilance is discernment.”
My latest, and first in a while, at a new url: truth2powerpnw.news
“We must be vigilant. But part of vigilance is discernment.”
My latest, and first in a while, at a new url: truth2powerpnw.news
The folo I was not expecting on one of the last “happy” stories I did for The SR in 2020. @alexdugganreports.bsky.social picks up on a nightmare 5 years later…
NEW: Alberto Rojas fled from Nicaragua after his uncle was shot, with a target on his back.
He came to Spokane, had children, loved soccer and stayed quiet with no criminal record.
He was picked up by ICE on Saturday.
His family is terrified.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
He came to Spokane, had children, loved soccer and stayed quiet with no criminal record.
He was picked up by ICE on Saturday.
His family is terrified.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
February 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The folo I was not expecting on one of the last “happy” stories I did for The SR in 2020. @alexdugganreports.bsky.social picks up on a nightmare 5 years later…
Reposted by Jared Brown
The Seattle City Council Tuesday reauthorized the use of blast balls, pepper spray, tear gas, and pepper balls by police for crowd-control purposes.
Seattle City Council approves police use of blast balls, pepper spray, tear gas during protests
The Seattle City Council Tuesday reauthorized the use of blast balls, pepper spray, and pepper by police for crowd-control purposes, despite the objections of people who said they were impacted by tho...
www.kuow.org
February 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The Seattle City Council Tuesday reauthorized the use of blast balls, pepper spray, tear gas, and pepper balls by police for crowd-control purposes.
Watched Seattle PD cops enforce the public drug use ordinance by making a guy stomp his glass pipe on the sidewalk outside the John St. Safeway. Then another unit rolled up. “A lot better than going to jail” the two guys told me. “They were hella cool about it.”
February 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Watched Seattle PD cops enforce the public drug use ordinance by making a guy stomp his glass pipe on the sidewalk outside the John St. Safeway. Then another unit rolled up. “A lot better than going to jail” the two guys told me. “They were hella cool about it.”
My top guilty pleasures combine: beer, IP law, petty small-town politics. And yes, Seattle is a small town.
Learning @seattlekraken.com may be quite litigious and pressured Fremont Brewing to change the name of its Sky Kraken IPA, which, *big if true*, feels kinda like just desserts for Sara Nelson
February 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
My top guilty pleasures combine: beer, IP law, petty small-town politics. And yes, Seattle is a small town.
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I'm genuinely too poor to understand how one ends up with $1.2 million in credit card debt
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I'm genuinely too poor to understand how one ends up with $1.2 million in credit card debt
Learning @seattlekraken.com may be quite litigious and pressured Fremont Brewing to change the name of its Sky Kraken IPA, which, *big if true*, feels kinda like just desserts for Sara Nelson
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Learning @seattlekraken.com may be quite litigious and pressured Fremont Brewing to change the name of its Sky Kraken IPA, which, *big if true*, feels kinda like just desserts for Sara Nelson
Have never experienced such built up anticipation hoping a slip opinion will load @wacourts.bsky.social 😅🙏🙌
November 22, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Have never experienced such built up anticipation hoping a slip opinion will load @wacourts.bsky.social 😅🙏🙌
Hell hath frozen over
I get it, but a daily just ... not printing for a day would've been a big deal in newspaper circles not too long ago. We used to go to some pretty extreme lengths to get the Kitsap Sun (not yet on bluesky) printed back in the day.
November 20, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Hell hath frozen over
🧵
Trial run on Spokane City Council live-tweeting: We have a full house at the Spokane City Council meeting -- a room full of COPS volunteers (not cops, but Community Oriented Policing Services) here, likely to testify about the city not renewing their contract.
November 19, 2024 at 3:40 AM
🧵
So many new friends!
Just added three more Seattle area journalists to this starter pack. Am I missing anyone? go.bsky.app/MdNLsYQ
November 14, 2024 at 7:46 PM
So many new friends!
KNKX Public Radio reported last year that Hairston resigned from TPD on Oct. 11, citing racial bias. www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
www.thenewstribune.com
April 26, 2024 at 2:47 PM
KNKX Public Radio reported last year that Hairston resigned from TPD on Oct. 11, citing racial bias. www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
Heard first on KNKX: Excessive force, racial bias lawsuit against Tacoma police will end with $300K settlement www.knkx.org/tacoma/2024-...
Excessive force, racial bias lawsuit against Tacoma police will end with $300K settlement
Tacoma officers searching a park singled out Zimmeri Contreraz sitting alone at a picnic table and detained him, saying he matched the description of a Black suspect.
www.knkx.org
April 22, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Heard first on KNKX: Excessive force, racial bias lawsuit against Tacoma police will end with $300K settlement www.knkx.org/tacoma/2024-...
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Baltimore’s mayor responds to social media posts labeling him a “DEI Mayor.”
“They really want to say the ‘n’ word,” Mayor Scott told the Baltimore Banner. “But there is nothing they can do and say to me that is worse than the treatment of my ancestors.”
“They really want to say the ‘n’ word,” Mayor Scott told the Baltimore Banner. “But there is nothing they can do and say to me that is worse than the treatment of my ancestors.”
Mayor Brandon Scott responds to racially-charged ‘DEI’ label
“We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
March 28, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Baltimore’s mayor responds to social media posts labeling him a “DEI Mayor.”
“They really want to say the ‘n’ word,” Mayor Scott told the Baltimore Banner. “But there is nothing they can do and say to me that is worse than the treatment of my ancestors.”
“They really want to say the ‘n’ word,” Mayor Scott told the Baltimore Banner. “But there is nothing they can do and say to me that is worse than the treatment of my ancestors.”
Reposted by Jared Brown
When I go back on Twitter for even a second
March 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
When I go back on Twitter for even a second
On the finale of The Walk Home from KNKX… After the officers charged with killing Manny Ellis were acquitted, how is the city of Tacoma moving forward? www.knkx.org/podcast/the-...
The Safest City in America
After the officers charged with killing Manny Ellis are acquitted, how does the city of Tacoma move forward?
www.knkx.org
March 3, 2024 at 2:43 AM
On the finale of The Walk Home from KNKX… After the officers charged with killing Manny Ellis were acquitted, how is the city of Tacoma moving forward? www.knkx.org/podcast/the-...