Posted on 07/08/2011 2:26:07 PM PDT by Stoat
A Seattle police officer has been charged with fourth-degree assault in connection with a December 2010 fight outside a bar. But the police union president said not only was the officer a victim of a brutal attack, but the victim of a hate crime.
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"The Seattle Police Officers Guild is outraged by the decision of the city Attorney Peter Holmes to charge Seattle Police Officer Garth Haynes with assault. The whole story has yet to be told regarding this incident," said police guild president Rich O'Neill.
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Haynes faces a maximum of one year in jail and a $5,000 fine if convicted of the gross misdemeanor. He is currently on administrative reassignment.
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(Excerpt) Read more at king5.com ...
A much better and more complete article than the KING5 one, thanks for posting.
If it’s true that Officer Haynes was ‘extremely’ drunk and acted the way it’s said in the KOMO article, then a lot of questions are answered.
Very sad and ugly & I’m just glad nobody got killed.
That wasn’t a cop, that was an individual that was being detained by a cop.............
That wasn't a cop.......look very closely at the video. That guy that put his foot down was being held by a cop, not the cop himself........
This should be a felony with 25 to life.
From the cotext of the story, the guy is an off duty police officer. No?
I don't know, I'm just going on what I saw in the video. And for what it's worth, I've seen stomps worse than that in soccer games..........in fact, I wouldn't even call it a "stomp" but rather a "tennie rub"..........
Well, yeah, it was a cop. *If* is weren’t a cop, and he interfered in that way (no matter what you think of it) the other cops would have handed him his ass.
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