A panel said that Washington’s Seattle Police Department needs to apologize for its violent treatment towards the demonstrators protesting the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
The Seattle Police Department should"offer a sincere, public apology" for its violent response to people demonstrating after the Minneapolis police killing ofIn its fourth and final review of the Seattle police response to the months ofin 2020, the city's Office of Inspector review panel found officers and commanders repeatedly failed to recognize the difference between the throngs of protesters exercising their First Amendment rights and the few troublemakers, The Seattle Times...
"Reform means that we accept the responsibility that is ours to bear, we learn from our experience, and we consistently strive to do better," Diaz wrote. The department also wrote that they're looking forward to discussions with city partners to be better prepared to facilitate these types of events in the future.
Police were receiving some inaccurate or overblown intelligence reports from sources ranging from undercover officers to the Department of Homeland Security that emphasized the existence of so-called black bloc protesters intent on violence, according to the panel.
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