Chief Kathleen O’Toole says she has “no trouble” with the idea of firing bad cops. The proof should arrive this month. ALEX GARLAND
The last time a Seattle police chief tried to fire one of the city’s 1,300 officers for using excessive force, the officer got his job back through a special tribunal stacked two-to-one with police. That was seven years ago.
The tribunal’s ruling is a chilling read. According to the report, officer Donald George approached a colleague’s patrol car on April 10, 2007. A 16-year-old Somali American teenager, arrested for breaking into a car, sat handcuffed in the backseat…
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