OPA recommends firing 2 SPD cops for illegal activity during Capitol riot, 3 others cleared

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When word got out in January that a Seattle police officer was among those on the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 6 for then-President Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally turned riot, it only added fuel to recent criticism of policing in Seattle.

Within days, it was determined that at least a half dozen SPD officers had been at the U.S. Capitol for the rally, sparking an investigation from Seattle’s Office of Police Accountability (OPA), one of three arms that make up the city’s police oversight system.

Now, six months later, the OPA has completed that investigation, specifically looking at whether those six officers violated any laws or department policy while in Washington, D.C.

In two of the six investigations, OPA Director Andrew Myerberg found the officers did in fact violate both Washington, D.C., law and SPD policy by trespassing on the Capitol grounds during the riot, and recommended those two officers be terminated.

https://mynorthwest.com/3022023/opa-recommends-firing-2-spd-cops-capitol-riot-others-cleared/

[abqtommy]

1. Firing them is good but jailing them would be way better.

[RainCaster]

2. Publish their names when they go to prison

That is what they truly deserve.

Won't felony convictions mean no more law enforcement careers?

[Dalton555]

3. I live in Eastern Washington and

The sheriff's department in my county has desecrated white supremacist flags painted onto their police cars.

It's appalling that our police forces have been overrun with white supremacist and neo-Nazi extremists.