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Editor's note: Earlier this month, Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney Adam Cornell spoke to the Edmonds Diversity Commission to explain why his office declined to charge a Lynnwood woman with malicious harassment after she allegedly made racial comments and threats against two African-American teenagers last year outside Harvey's Lounge in Edmonds. The woman was an employee of Harvey's.

The Beacon asked Cornell to comment on his decision and his reasoning behind it.

After careful and deliberative review of both the facts, as established by the investigative record, and the applicable la...