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I was arrested by Ofc. Rose a little over 2 years ago in Seattle and charged with a DUI. I had just got off work and was parked on the side of the street filling out my timesheet and submitting other work related reports, documents, and expenses for the client jobs I had worked that day and were due before EoD at midnight. While doing this on my phone, parked on the side of the street, I had fallen asleep because filling out timesheets and submitting expense reports is boring and I was tired having worked over 12 hours that day. I was woken up to Ofc. Rose accompanied by 6 other SPD officers yelling and shining their flashlights towards me and grabbing me and pulling me out of the driver seat of my car. I explained everything that I have mentioned here to Ofc. Rose and insisted that I am not intoxicated and that he is making a mistake. He asked me if I would submit to a breathalyzer test and I responded emphatically with a yes officer please test me so that you and your colleagues can see I am telling the truth and that you're making a mistake. Ofc. Rose then says he is not going to breathalyze me but instead wants to do a FST.

At this point it was becoming clear to me that Ofc. Rose was upset and agitated because he probably thought he was 100% going to be ending his shift that night with a successful DUI arrest, he even had called 6 other of his officer buddies over to make himself look good (or is that standard procedure for DUI probable cause encounters for cops to call in soo many backups?). While this was all happening I got the sense that the other officers knew that I was obviously not intoxicated and had simply dosed off in a parked car and in reality Ofc. Rose had majorly misjudged the situation and made a mistaken call. Of course none of them said anything of such to me or in front of me, and I'm not sure if they even brought it up with Ofc. Rose. But after reading these reports online about Ofc. Rose and his "lack of professionalism," his hotheadedness, "his childish mental and emotional instability and weakness," I'm not sure any of them would have risked their life giving constructive criticism to Ofc. Rose who is clearly an out of control crazy firecracker about to explode at any moment. (those are direct quotes from other SPD officers regarding Ofc. Rose which they had an altercation between them and Ofc. Rose had threatened to beat to death another SPD senior officer).

SPD needs to put a tight leash on this out of control feral dog of theirs before he follows through on the violent threats he has made against his fellow SPD colleagues. And if that's how he behaves with his fellow officers; just imagine how much worst it has to be with public and residents of Seattle

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