The East Precinct in what was known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. (Getty Images) The Alaska man who set fire to the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct last summer now faces jail time. Desmond David-Pitts, 20, was sentenced Monday in the U.S. District Court in Seattle to 20 months in prison for conspiracy to commit arson in connection with the fire he set Aug. 24, 2020, at the East Precinct. Surveillance video shows him piling up trash and lighting it on fire outside of a precinct door. He was arrested shortly after the fire. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour noted the danger posed to the officers who could have been trapped in the building.