Burien police decline charges after video appears to show woman brandishing gun at students protesting ICE

Police in Burien said they do not plan to pursue charges, at least for now, after a confrontation caught on video appeared to show a woman flashing a handgun at students protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside a Catholic high school earlier this year.

The incident happened Feb. 20 near Kennedy Catholic High School, where close to a dozen students had gathered along Southwest 148th Street across the street from the Burien Transit Center to protest ICE policies.

Video obtained by KIRO Newsradio shows a heated confrontation between students and a man and a woman riding in a pickup truck. After words were exchanged, several students could be seen making obscene gestures, including “middle-fingers” toward the occupants of the truck…

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