On the evening of January 28, Spokane health care workers and activists marched from Riverfront Park to the county courthouse to honor Alex Pretti, the nurse Border Patrol agents executed on a Minneapolis street last month.
Once the march reached the courthouse, the crowd fanned out on the lawn in front of the large wooden doors on the south end of the building. A pair of men stood on the lawn by the western edge of the crowd. Local open government activist Jim Leighty heard the men before he saw them. They spoke in a lingo and cadence he was familiar with from years of police accountability work. “Even when they’re out of uniform,” Leighty said, “cops sound like cops.”
He turned to see if he knew them…