Rantz Exclusive: Seattle Police leaders accuse OPA head of altering finding against officer
This is a huge scandal in the making. And it won't end here.
A Seattle police officer who was heard joking about the city’s assumed treatment of 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula’s death violated policy, according to the Office of Police Accountability (OPA).
But in a memo to Chief Adrian Diaz obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, members of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) Command Staff urged that the most serious finding be rejected due to their “significant concern over procedural irregularities.” It was written by Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxey, Assistant Chief of Investigations Bureau Tom Mahaffey, and Assistant Chief of Metropolitan Bureau Dan Nelson.
I am certain Erica C. Barnett is furiously typing her rebuttal.