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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

NAACP Calls for Resignation of Chief Kerlikowske, Termination of Two SPD Officers

posted by on May 9 at 12:59 PM

King County NAACP president James Bible called for the resignation of Seattle Police Chief Kelikowske and two officers at a press conference this morning in City Hall. Bible said Kerlikowske misrepresented the contents of a video the city used to investigate two officers who claimed they found crack cocaine on an African-American man’s lap during a bust in Belltown. The defendant countered that the officers planted the drugs, which triggered an internal investigation by the Office of Professional Accountability. The chief essentially exonerated the officers after the investigation, claiming they’d only omitted a minor detail from the police report.

However, an independent forensic expert examined the same video evidence of the scene, and in an affidavit he describes a different series of events than portrayed in the police report written by the arresting officers, Neubert and Tietjen. According to the Defender Association’s Sunil Abraham, if you looked at the police report, “you’d think you were watching the video tape of a different incident. They never recover anything from his lap.”

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Yeah, like the front man for that racist junta we call the SPD is going to voluntarily resign when he has the unquestioned support of the city.

Posted by Gomez | May 9, 2007 1:14 PM
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Is this the same Officer Neubert that was involved with the shooting of Aaron Roberts in 2001?

Posted by Hernandez | May 9, 2007 1:30 PM
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That's him.

Posted by Dominic Holden | May 9, 2007 1:44 PM
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Not to the point, but: James Bible? That's awesome.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | May 9, 2007 1:50 PM
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That being the case, I'm going to go ahead and assume that the African-American guy is telling the truth.

Posted by Hernandez | May 9, 2007 2:03 PM
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And Tietjen is a notorious liar and asshole. The number of times he's blatantly lied on the witness stand to get a conviction must go into the thousands. Many times his lies have been obvious, but our system treats it as a "credibility" issue for the jury when cops get caught lieing in court, rather than the perjury issue it is.

Posted by anonymous | May 9, 2007 2:32 PM
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This is the same Rasmussen who's answer to the whole Pride problem was: sure, two parades sounds like a swell plan? That Tom Rasmussen?

Pardon my lack of enthusiasm.

Posted by SDA in SEA | May 9, 2007 2:52 PM
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oops. wrong post. sorry

Posted by SDA in SEA | May 9, 2007 2:53 PM
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let's see if either of the daily papers or the tv news reports on it.

Posted by lmc | May 9, 2007 3:46 PM
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Posted by hyperlinker | May 9, 2007 10:22 PM
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whoa--calm down, hyperlinker--the question was whether they'd carry the story that the forensics expert said the accounts don't match--not whether they ever wrote about the case. they did cover the new developments. thanks for posting the links.

Posted by whoa, nellie | May 9, 2007 11:19 PM
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@16: That wasn't intended to be an answer to any question, just the sharing of resources that were not provided in the post and are likely to be useful to someone who seeks more information on the subject.

The inclusion of links in multiple comments was a result of Slog's unfortunate maximum-of-two-links-per-comment policy.

Posted by hyperlinker | May 10, 2007 7:21 AM
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see also:

Posted by hyperlinker | May 10, 2007 7:32 AM
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