A look at preparations for and protests against the WTO conference in Seattle. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky details the China-U.S. trade deal . A report on the China-U.S. trade deal Complete NewsHour coverage of international issues . Street life is normal again in the downtown core of the city. Merchants replaced their shattered windows.
Shoppers are back in the stores again.
In the end, the city dropped most of the unresolved charges against protesters for lack of evidence, but some lawsuits are still pending. I'm going to make this nice and sweet. We entrusted our businesses, our communities, and, yes, our lives to your keeping and protection, and you failed us. The council investigation is just beginning, but there's already a major casualty at city hall. Chief of Police Norm Stamper resigned, and admitted in this interview that the city vastly underestimated the scale and intensity of the anti-WTO protest.