Thread by @DivestSPD

SCOOP: DivestSPD has now identified all six officers who attended the deadly Trump rally in DC on January 6th.

Cw: Violence
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By cross-referencing publicly available data with materials obtained through public records requests, DivestSPD researchers have uncovered the names of three additional officers—all sergeants—who went to the disastrous DC rally that left 5 dead and hundreds injured. (1/ )

One is K9 Acting Sergeant Jake Briskey.

Briskey has been named in five different successful civil rights lawsuits for excessive force and wrongful arrest. (2/)

As it so happens, Sgt. Briskey was the subject of our very first cop trading card. (3/ )

As a rookie, Briskey was sued for manhandling Romelle Bradford, a Black youth volunteer, and arresting him on a bogus contempt-of-cop charge. (4/ )

A few years later, Briskey was sued again for incident in which he and several other officers beat, tasered and wrongfully arrested a sleeping man. (5/ )

He was also sued over a noise complaint that turned into a bloody melee, when Briskey and slew of cops charged a backyard party in Columbia City.

During the chaos Briskey stomped a man's shin, fracturing it. (6/ )

Later, when Briskey was working in the gang unit, he & his partner Adley Shepherd profiled some Black youth waiting for their ride outside a movie theater, raising the ire of the NAACP. (note: Shepherd was ultimately fired for beating a handcuffed woman)

Also attending the Jan. 6 riots: Sgt. Scott Bach. (8/ )

According to the rosters, Bach was the acting lieutenant in the southwest precinct on the day of the riots.

But on Jan. 7 he is listed as a sergeant.

Could be a coincidence... (9/ )

Bach has three active investigations, including the one for involvement in the Capitol rally and another for "integrity and ethics" (10/ )

Next up: The Honeymooners.

Identified by DivestSPD earlier this year, Alexander Everett & Caitlin Rochelle are a couple.

They transferred to SPD together in 2017, then married in Dec. 2020. They've each averaged roughly 2 complaints annually in their careers (above avg).(11/)

Though it hasn't been confirmed if they travelled together, Jason Marchione—previously ID'd by @Crosscut— works the same shift and beat as Rochelle. (12/ )

Like Everett and Rochelle, Marchione was hired in 2017 and has averaged two complaints a year.

In one, a Black man alleged that Marchione broke his wrist during a hard takedown.

45% of Marchione's uses of force have been against Black people (SPD avg=30%)(13/)

Last up is Michael Settle, the acting sergeant detective of the vice unit. His record is surprisingly sparse.

Possible explanation: He became a detective in 2011 and therefore faced fewer situations that might generate public complaints. (14/ )