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The altercation began when the officer arrived the Chevron gas station on the corner of South Tower Avenue and East Cherry Street shortly before 10 a.m. to a report of a man who stole food.
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Footage of a Yakima (Wash.) Police Department pursuit shows the suspect fleeing from officers and repeatedly ramming police cruisers, even after being shot.
Read More →Vowing to create a police force “second to none,” Kathleen O’Toole was sworn in as chief of the Seattle Police Department on Monday afternoon, shortly after the City Council voted 8-to-1 to confirm her for a job that will immediately test her ability to carry out federally mandated reforms, restore morale throughout the ranks and rebuild community trust.
Read More →But in alerting U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman to the prior finding, the notice gave Pechman an option to keep the case, transfer it to the other judge, U.S. District Judge James Robart, or consult with him on what course to take.
Read More →Washington state troopers shot a man who reportedly advanced on them with a knife after stopping his truck and setting it on fire on a busy bridge Monday night. The man has died from wounds sustained during the shooting.
Read More →A Tacoma (Wash.) PD officer was patrolling for car prowlers, running license plates on his computer before he hit the man, who was lying in the road.
Read More →Citing newly discovered evidence, Interim Seattle Police Chief Harry Bailey has reversed a finding that an officer used excessive force when he stepped on the head of a handcuffed man outside a Ballard bar in 2010.
Read More →The civil-rights suit, filed in U.S. District Court, contends the changes have effectively created “hesitation and paralysis” among officers, stripping them of their constitutional and legal right to make reasonable, split-second judgments in the line of duty.
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has announced Kathleen O'Toole as the city's first female police chief. The nomination is subject to council approval.
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A man crashed through police barricades in Spokane, Wash., and allegedly threatened officers with a weapon before being fatally shot by police.
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