Following a U.S. appeals court ruling that allows Seattle police officers to proceed with a defamation lawsuit against a City Council member, their attorney signaled on Monday that they will proceed with it. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week issued a ruling that reversed a federal judge’s dismissal of the case, sending it back to a federal court in Seattle. Seattle officers Michael Spaulding and Scott Miller alleged that City Councilmember Kshama Sawant made defamatory statements when she publicly said their shooting of a man in 2016 is “a blatant murder at the hands of police” and urged the department to be held responsible “for their … individual actions.” In their opinion issued on Nov. 10, the court panel concluded that “Sawant’s own words suggested that her remarks were directed not only at the police generally, but also at the individual officers involved in the …