The King County Sheriff's Office will investigate a Seattle police officer after a video from Wednesday night's protest circulated on social media, showing him rolling his bike over the head of a person lying on the ground.
Seattle's Office of Police Accountability (OPA) responded to the incident early Thursday morning, after the Seattle Police Department's Force Investigation Team (FIT) notified them at 2:40 a.m., an OPA news release said. The OPA said at 5 a.m., after analyzing the interview and interviews conducted by FIT, it would request a criminal investigation performed by an outside law enforcement agency, to which SPD agreed.
ust before 1 p.m., SPD said in a statement that KCSO would be investigating the incident, which garnered over 30 complaints, according to the OPA.
he video came from a demonstration on Capitol Hill Wednesday night, as a crowd of protesters reacted to a grand jury's decision to not charge Louisville, Kentucky police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor in March.
Events escalated after a person reportedly threw a firework at the East Precinct, which has been a flashpoint between protesters and police officers since protests started in May. Police rode ...
Seattle's Office of Police Accountability (OPA) responded to the incident early Thursday morning, after the Seattle Police Department's Force Investigation Team (FIT) notified them at 2:40 a.m., an OPA news release said. The OPA said at 5 a.m., after analyzing the interview and interviews conducted by FIT, it would request a criminal investigation performed by an outside law enforcement agency, to which SPD agreed.
ust before 1 p.m., SPD said in a statement that KCSO would be investigating the incident, which garnered over 30 complaints, according to the OPA.
he video came from a demonstration on Capitol Hill Wednesday night, as a crowd of protesters reacted to a grand jury's decision to not charge Louisville, Kentucky police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor in March.
Events escalated after a person reportedly threw a firework at the East Precinct, which has been a flashpoint between protesters and police officers since protests started in May. Police rode ...