#2020-220030/East Precinct/Third Watch: On 07-23-202 at 0017 hours, a demonstration/protest began in a park located within the East Precinct. The group quickly disregarded the rule of law and began committing multiple counts of property damage, burglaries and arsons. Several homemade explosives were used and detonated to cause one minor fire,… [ Keep reading ]
#2020-219551/South Precinct/Third Watch: On 7-22-2020 at 0300 hours, there was a dual response for a dumpster fire at the Southwest corner of the 7-11 store. Fire damaged the siding, plywood sheeting, and dumpster. Seattle Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire. Fire Marshal responded and conducted an investigation. #2020-219575/South Precinct/First… [ Keep reading ]
#2020-219049/West Precinct/Second Watch: On 7-21-2020 at 1440 hours, the victim was standing at a bus stop in Interbay. A known suspect, who purportedly blamed the victim for causing his eviction, drove around the suspect, against traffic on 15th Ave West and brandished a handgun. The suspect drove away, came back,… [ Keep reading ]
#2020-218274/East Precinct/Second Watch: On 7-20-2020 at approximately 1719 hours, SPD East Precinct Officers responded to the 4300 Block of E Madison Street for the report of a subject in crisis. The crisis subject, who was known to Officers, intentionally banged his head on a stop sign, causing a large bleeding… [ Keep reading ]
Detectives are investigating after a 3-year-old child died following a vehicle collision in the Madison Valley neighborhood. At 4:45 PM Sunday, police were called to the 1800 block of 30th Avenue for a report of a vehicle collision where a child was seriously injured. Police arrived and found a 3-year-old… [ Keep reading ]
Officers are recovering from protests yesterday where they were struck with explosives, rocks, bottles, and wood. Throughout the day officers were moving protesters away from the East Precinct after they threw an explosive at the building causing structural damage. In all 59 officers were injured throughout the day with one… [ Keep reading ]
Seattle Police made dozens of arrests and 21 officers were injured following a riot in the East Precinct. Around 2:15pm, two large groups of demonstrators gathered at Seattle Central College and Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill, before converging and marching south on Broadway. Around 4pm, the large group of… [ Keep reading ]
I wanted to update you that early this morning, the federal judge overseeing the Consent Decree issued a temporary order halting the implementation of City Council’s recently passed legislation that banned SPD from using less-lethal crowd management tools that had previously been approved by the Court, including blast balls and pepper… [ Keep reading ]
Update 8/4: The Seattle Police Department’s Force Investigations Team (FIT) is conducting an independent investigation into an officer involved shooting that occurred on July 16, 2020 in Shoreline. KCSO deputies contacted a suspect who earlier stabbed a man walking his dog critically injuring him. The victim is expected to recover from his… [ Keep reading ]
July 23, 2020Lorena González, President and Lisa Herbold, Public Safety ChairSeattle City Council, City Hall600 Fourth Ave, 2nd FloorSeattle, WA 98104 Re: City Council Ordinance 119805 – Crowd Control Tools Dear President González, Chairwoman Herbold, and Seattle City Council Members: SPD has confirmed with the City Attorney’s Office that the… [ Keep reading ]