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JULY

Being a Black woman – and a cop – in Edmonds

Tabatha Shoemake, 51, is Edmonds' senior animal control officer and 11-year veteran with the Edmonds Police Department.

As a Black woman working in an increasingly diverse but still overwhelmingly white town, Shoemake's voice is one that needs to be heard during a time when white perceptions of the Black experience are forcing them to reassess their racial prejudices and their subtle biases, the latter which today are expressed in the term "microaggressions."

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