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The Seattle School Board voted Wednesday night against bringing a police officer back onto Garfield High School’s campus this year.

The 5-2 vote came after a contentious discussion where multiple School Board members struggled to make a decision on the proposal to approve a one-year pilot program that would have placed a Seattle police officer at the Central District school.

“This has just been a mess, a complete mess, in terms of sorting out how we provide a school and community wit

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