FILE PHOTO: Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best holds a news conference inside the CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest) area in front of the Seattle Police Department - East Precinct, hours after a fatal shooting as people occupy space in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. June 29, 2020. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigned on Tuesday, a day after the city council cut her department's budget as part of a reform movement following mass protests against racial bias and violence in policing.
Best's surprise departure marked one of the most notable big-city police department shakeups in the aftermath of nationwide demonstrations spurred by the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man, who was pinned under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer.
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