The 'Skull F*ck' Cop Is Now a Therapist

Infamous for racially profiling two immigrants and goading them with profanity, SPD Crisis Sgt. Corey Williams is now moonlighting as a shrink.

Remember that Seattle cop who racially profiled two Hispanic men and threatened to “skull fuck” them? Well, now he’s working as a therapist on the side. Sgt. Corey Williams, a supervisor in SPD’s crisis response unit, became a nightly news item early in his career for his role in a dubious traffic stop of two immigrant men from Yakima.

In 2010, Williams and several other officers stopped Manuel Oregon and Hugo Perez on the flimsy pretext of “reckless driving.” The officers’ in-car video contradicted Williams’ stated reasons for stopping them.

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Williams claims to have stopped Yakima residents Manuel Oregon and Hugo Perez for reckless driving. He reported that they approached a stop sign going fast and nearly hit “half a dozen pedestrians” near the crosswalk. The vid shows them slowing and no pedestrians. (9/19)

In the video, the officers seem to be deliberately escalating. Williams is the worst. At one point, he tells the driver, “This badge is the only thing preventing me from skull fucking you and dragging you down the street.”

The subsequent civil rights lawsuit showed Williams and the other officers made multiple false statements in their police reports to justify their behavior and the unlawful arrest, including lies about the pretext for the stop, the pair’s alleged gang affiliations, and the results of the field sobriety test. The city settled out of court with Oregon and Perez for $40,000.

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Williams is still employed as a Seattle police officer. A crisis response sergeant, he’s a regular fixture at encampment sweeps, but Williams started a private therapy practice in Port Orchard a year ago, according to his profile on the Psychology Today directory.

His profile says that he specializes in therapy for “first responders,” with a pitch that seems geared explicitly toward cops:

“First responders have a front row seat to the best and worst of humanity. This can take a toll on you in a variety of ways. Sometimes images from calls keep returning. Hypervigilance and cumulative stress can leave you feeling restless, irritable, or fatigued. This can lead to resentment and negative beliefs about yourself and the world.

Williams says he helps first responders cope with trauma and “administrative betrayal.” While Williams talks a lot about confronting and dealing with emotions, two of his favorite books are about learning to turn your feelings off and kill without hesitation, according to his Tumblr blog.

On Killing and On Combat by police trainer Dave Grossman are on Williams’ list of favorite books alongside a handful of books that are basically a dumb guy’s idea of the type of stuff smart people read.

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It’s mostly a collection of links. Some are pretty telling. He’s apparently a fan of Daniel Grossman, a notorious police trainer who teaches “Killology”—how to kill without hesitation or regret. One of his most famous pupils: The cop who murdered Philando Castile (17/19)

Williams also shared an article about how cops have a duty to get as many “whack jobs” off the streets to prevent mass shootings.

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There’s also a link to a blog by Ofc. Dick Fairburn titled “Cops are experts at dealing w/ the dangerously insane.” 1/3rd of the blog is a block quote by Ann Coulter. It treats every mentally ill person—referred to as "whack jobs"— like a potential mass killer. (18/19)