Should the Trump administration deploy the National Guard to Seattle, police Chief Shon Barnes knows what he’ll say to his officers.

I will ask them, ‘Does anyone know who Willie Grimes is?'”

Grimes, 20, in 1969 was a sophomore at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro — Barnes’ alma mater — who, as a bystander, was shot and killed during violent clashes between police, National Guard troops and students demonstrating against segregation. His killing was never solved, although police were widely blamed for his death.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was sharply critical of the National Guard’s role, calling their armed response “reckless and disproportionate.”

“My message will be simple,” Barnes said in an interview Friday. “That our responsibility is to protect the const

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