Couple among two of six Seattle PD agents of mayhem in Washington DC Jan 6terminated
Two of six off-duty Seattle police officers who attended the pro-Trump rally that preceded the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol were fired Friday by interim police Chief Adrian Diaz, who followed the recommendations of an investigation that found they trespassed onto restricted grounds and stood by in the immediate vicinity of an “active insurrection.”
The dismissals were announced in a posting on the Seattle Police Department’s news blotter. A recommendation of termination was included with the release last month of the findings of a six-month investigation by the Office of Police Accountability (OPA).
The two officers have been identified asAlexander Everett and Caitlin Rochelle Everett, who are married. According to the investigation, they downplayed their actions in D.C. and likely lied to internal investigators about what they did.
Diaz said in a statement that such behavior by sworn law enforcement officers cannot be tolerated.
“In granting the police the power and responsibility to do their work, the community takes as collateral an expectation that law enforcement will at all times earn and abide by that trust,” the chief wrote. “This is what should be expected of policing, and it is what I demand as Chief. It is also what Seattle Police officers expect of their colleagues. ”
“It is based on those values that I reached my decision,” Diaz said.
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