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June 2025

Cop suspended for slamming handcuffed Black youth on cruiser's hood
'I’m a kid' the youth said through bloodied lips. 'You’re not a kid right now,' Sgt. Travis Sauer replied.
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Bad Apple Baseball Cards: Daniel Espinoza
Infamous for retaliation, Espinoza is a short-fused authoritarian who has been arrested twice, shot two people and once refused to help a woman who was…
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Seattle sergeant sent unwanted sexts to subordinate and lied to investigators
Sgt. Michelle McRae denied sending sexual text messages to an underling, but the number matched her personal cell. She's likely facing termination.
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Three reasons SPD's response to the ICE protests has been limited so far
And why that probably won't last.
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Still shouting 'Defund SPD' five years later
BY JUSTIN WARD
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Bad Apple Baseball Cards: Lt. Michael Tietjen
Tietjen racked up the most complaints in the 2020 protests, including one for trying to hit protesters on the sidewalk with his SUV. SPD rewarded him…
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May 2025

Bad Apple Baseball Cards: Brian Muoio
Before he pepper-sprayed those two trans rights protesters in Cal Anderson, Brian was racially profiling Black men, threatening people with Tasers, and…
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Newly released report shows why Snoqualmie chief got sacked
An external investigation found that former Chief Brian Lynch called women 'bitches,' rated their looks, and made sexual jokes in front of female…
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SPD Baseball Cards: Sgt. Nathan Patterson
With six police brutality incidents, six lawsuits, and one fatal shooting, Sgt. Patterson is one of the Seattle Police Department's most notoriously…
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Seattle's long murder-free streak is over, but violence is still trending downward
A triple homicide last weekend put a coda on 45 days of relative peace, but the city remains on track to realize its lowest violent crime rate in years.
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'Locker-room talk': Racist, homophobic jokes rampant at Lakewood PD
An arbitrator ruled that the department couldn't demote two officers for behavior that was "prevalent and accepted" and "condoned by the prior chief."
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