Seattle Officer Fired Over Domestic Abuse, Bias Allegations
SEATTLE, WA — A Seattle police officer has been fired after a former girlfriend and her son filed a complaint alleging physical abuse, drug use, and a pattern of using slurs related to race, sexual identity and gender, according to the Office of Police Accountability.
The OPA said its disciplinary decision was reached after considering the officer's actions in this case, along with a prior complaint filed in 2017 that alleged insubordination, unprofessionalism and dishonesty.
The Allegations
Domestic Violence:
According to a case summary published this month, the man who filed the complaint told OPA investigators the officer abused his mother on multiple occasions while the two were in a relationship, between 2015 and 2016. The OPA said the son filed the complaint in 2018 after he left the military, and it was referred to the Seattle Police Department's Domestic Violence Unit to conduct a criminal investigation.
A criminal investigator interviewed the son, his sister, and his mother. According to the case summary, the woman detailed repeated verbal and physical abuse, including instances where the officer grabbed her jaw, kicked her legs and screamed at her. In one incident, she told investigators that he tried to make her scratch his face and placed his gun in her hand in an attempt to get her fingerprints on it, the report says.
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