Two Seattle police officers who were at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have been fired, the police chief says.
say that the two now-fired officers told investigators they were 30 to 50 feet from the Capitol and saw no signs of a disturbance, just people standing in the grass and waving flags.
"It defies belief that you could think this situation was 'peaceful' or that you were not on notice that you were trespassing," the police discipline report reads. "We understand the optics of this," the union president said."Our issue is, the case file does not back the claim that these officers witnessed criminality. They're on record saying they did not witness any."that two officers be fired, without naming them.six officers in all who were at the"Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 6 and found three didn't violate policies or break any laws. The investigation into the fourth was inconclusive, the board said.
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