Seattle cop got preferential treatment in prostitution arrest
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By Lewis Kamb / The Seattle Times
SEATTLE Late on a Wednesday last November, a middle-aged man in an Audi sport-utility vehicle pulled into a lot off Aurora Avenue North and allegedly agreed to pay $40 for sex to a police decoy posing as a prostitute.
The undercover cop silently gave a signal, and a team of Seattle police officers watching from nearby swooped in. They soon realized their vice sting had netted one of their own: an out-of-uniform Seattle police captain named Randal Woolery, who lives in Monroe.
Police body-camera videos of Woolerys arrest that night show that after officers handcuffed him and read him his rights, he turned to a supervising officer and asked: May I talk to the sergeant?
Sgt. Jeffrey Page took Woolery away from the other officers, and with the sergeants body camera still recording, Woolery told him: Im going through a divorce.
OK, brother, Page responded. Ill try to make this as
painless as possible.
Moments later, Page shut off his body camera and stopped recording the arrest a violation of department policy. His action would be the first in a series of apparent breaks given to Woolery that night.
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