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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UPDATE: The investigation of Sgt. Michael Tietjen is nearly complete. Last August, he ran his SUV onto a sidewalk full of protesters and referred to them as "cockroaches."
The last batch of rulings OPA released on 4/9 contained two sustained charges against him.
CW: Language, transphobia
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In case 2020OPA-0531, released earlier this month, Tietjen was riding in the same GMC Yukon used to run up on the sidewalk with some other officers when they taunted a transwoman by asking if she had a "dick" under her skirt.
Tietjen (NE#4) in this case was given a reprimand for a professionalism charge.
Just want to update everyone on what went down and where we are. (THREAD)
1/21
We met with @SeattleFdn's CEO @tgmestres, Equity Advisor Alice Ito, Board Member and UW Dean of Undergrad Academic Affairs Ed Taylor, and several other employees of the foundation to present our demands, which are listed below:
2/21
1.) Divestment and reparation - Halt grants to the Seattle Police Foundation and invest $1.5m (2x the total amount granted to SPF) in repairing the harm caused by SPD, with a specific emphasis on funding community-led policing alternatives.