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The Seattle Community Police Commission has recommended the city police chief to relieve from duty and withhold pay for an officer under investigation for joking about and downplaying the death of a 23-year-old Indian student when an overspeeding police car driven by another officer struck her.
The feds will still oversee crowd control tactics, but, after almost 11 years, Seattle officials and advocates want to control policing policy again.
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The Office of Police Accountability is investigating whether those officers breached the Capitol. Mike Solan, the president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, blamed Back Lives Matter and the far left for the riot. Days after an unprecedented domestic assault on democracy unfolded at the US Capitol, a tender wound reopened in Seattle, Washington. As hundreds of rioters who breached the Capitol have started to be identified, with many facing federal charges, the Associated Press reported that over 30 police officers are under investigation for their presence at then-President Donald Trump's...
Three additional SPD cops are being examined for any possible involvement in the riots. by Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) At least five Seattle police officers attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that fed into the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, according to Andrew Myerberg, the head of Seattl...