Charleena Lyles, an African-American resident at our Sand Point Housing campus, called Seattle Police yesterday morning to report an attempted burglary. The two officers who responded, both white, shot and killed her within a few minutes of entering the apartment.

We don’t know exactly what happened in that time, but we do know this tragedy should not have been the ending.

When people move into Sand Point, they are coming from the traumas of homelessness. …