You should read this.

Really. Go read the whole thing if you think the police are all "officer friendlies" and exist to "serve and protect". There's almost too much to quote, which I why I encourage you to read the entire account.

It started with this article titled, "Off-duty Seattle officer beaten"

Believe it or not, it appears that they initial account given by the police may not be entirely accurate. Where have I heard that before?

Now we have a new story, "Accounts of off-duty police shooting differ."

The eyewitness/victim stories go more like this:

• Plainclothes officer is riding his personal motorcycle down a crowded alley.
• He revs his engine to get a lady to move out of his way.
• He tries to drive by her and bangs her arm.
• Words are exchanged.
• He dismounts.
• His motorcycle is overturned (by who, we don't know)
• "At that point, witnesses say Dornay jumped over the motorcycle toward the woman and tackled her and threw her up against the wall,"
• The cop fired [conflicting accounts] of rounds in [conflicting accounts] direction but a bystander ended up getting shot [conflicting accounts] times in the [conflicting accounts] area of his body.
• Bystanders rush the guy and beat the snot out of him (apparently think he was a bad guy - were they wrong?)

Just to make the story more interesting, we note the following:

Dornay already faces a separate federal lawsuit brought by an elderly man who claims Dornay and other officers beat him so badly on a Belltown street in 2003 that the man's spleen was ruptured.

According to the court documents, Seattle police conducted an internal investigation of the incident, but exonerated the officers of wrongdoing.

Yet, because of what the lawsuit describes as several "irregularities" with the internal investigation -- witnesses to the encounter were not interviewed, and the officers were able to "re-create" police reports about the incident that they said were "lost" -- the department's Office of Professional Accountability re-opened the case.

Kinda makes you go "hmmmm..."

File under: Only Ones