The two Seattle police officers had responded to a 911 call from this same apartment in a low-income neighborhood in Seattle's Central District, known as the CD, just a week before a new call.
But it wasn't the minor incidents there that struck the officers and tugged at their hearts.
It was the fact that two young girls, just 13 and 6, had no beds and were sleeping on the floor.
It doesn't matter why these kids were sleeping on the floor, or why any kids do so, for that matter. It only matters that they shouldn't be.
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