Next Wed, the SeattleFdn's board will vote on a policy to stop processing donations to police non-profits & other orgs that harm our communities.
Join us outside their offices in Westlake at 4 pm to demand the foundation divest from policing & invest in Black communities!
Some Background:
Last fall we revealed that the largest single donor to the Seattle Police Foundation is the Seattle Foundation, a giant local non-profit that controls over $1 bln in assets.
To date SeaFdn has provided nearly $900k in grants to SPF
We followed up with our original No Charity for Cops Rally, which pressured SeattleFdn to open a dialogue with DivestSPD & its coalition partners.
This spurred the creation of a stakeholder committee that recommended a series of policy changes, including divestment from police
Right now, it's looking like the SeattleFdn is leaning toward divestment, with several board members and staffers supporting the committee's recommendation—but we haven't won yet.
We need a big turnout to show our community is united on this issue
CRG officer Richard Bonesteel is a real charmer.
He went on two dates last year that ended with a woman calling the cops because he was belligerently drunk and abusive. (THREAD)
Bonesteel may go by Richard, but acts like a “Dick” both on and off the job.
According to an OPA complaint, the friend of a woman in Renton Bonesteel was dating called 911 after he drunkenly manhandled her during a dispute. (1/9)
The local police declined to arrest him and OPA also recommended no discipline for the incident.
Months later, there was a similar fracas at a different woman’s house—this time in Edmonds. The woman called EPD to report Bonesteel was drunk and wouldn’t leave. (2/9)
SCOOP: DivestSPD has now identified all six officers who attended the deadly Trump rally in DC on January 6th.
Cw: Violence
(THREAD)
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/)
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.