Law firm unveils findings from Boise police racism investigation
CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS ckomatsoulis@idahopress.com
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Steptoe & Johnson attorney Michael Bromwich said the investigation into racism in the Boise Police Department found that many officers were surprised to find out about former captain Matthew Bryngelson’s white supremacist views.
But though many in the department had negative views of Bryngelson, he was approached and encouraged to seek promotion. Ultimately, he became a supervisor.
“One senior member of the department at that time who was involved with considering Mr. Bryngelson for promotion was strongly opposed to him and said if this goes through and he becomes a supervisor, we will be reading about this in the newspaper someday,” Bromwich said during Tuesday’s Boise City Council meeting, where the details of the investigation were unveiled for the first time. “Unfortunately, it’s quite prophetic.”
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean announced the investigation by Steptoe & Johnson last November, after news came to light that Bryngelson participated in a white nationalist conference. Bryngelson was slated to speak at a conference put on by a group that promotes “pseudo-scientific studies and research that purports to show the inferiority of blacks to whites,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Bryngelson spent more than 20 years with BPD before retiring in August 2022.
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