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/ )
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/ )
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/ )
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Actually, the criticism is: 1) She's a Republican who lives in DuPont who organized a rally to "take back" a city that she doesn't live in. (not even the same county/area code)
2) This event is the latest in a series of deeply cynical GOP efforts aimed at breaking off Asians from the Democratic Party. That's clearly laid out in the thread.
If she was just a person who happened to be Republican and decided to organize a vigil to honor the victim, there would be nothing to criticize about it. However, all the messaging betrays a partisan agenda while the GOP's role has been consciously concealed.
This seems like an opportunistic move that's part of a larger Republican strategy to woo Asian voters through a combination of grievance politics (see also that kid who didn't get accepted to Berkeley) and fear-mongering about crime and homelessness.
It's hard to overstate how deeply and transparently cynical this is. The original flyer for this thrown-together event didn't even spell Kwon's name correctly.
It shows how little they actually care about this woman whose death they're exploiting.
The version Brandi just posted changed the title to "Unite for Safety" and deleted the inflammatory references to women being "robbed, assaulted, and raped"
Brandi and folks like her don't want to solve problems or help people. She wants to shred the social safety net so her wealthy libertarian benefactors will pay less taxes.
All the rich libertarians in the state could afford to give We Heart Seattle millions of dollars to stand up whatever private social services they want. They don't. Instead, they dump their vast wealth into advocacy and propaganda.
Why? Because helping people was never the point
Per Ari, WHS got the family into a "tiny home." Unless they found an ADU for the family to live in, it seems like they just took them to LIHI, which has government funding.