The Seattle Police Department has begun investigating the officer who infamously wrote last fall that officials conducting race-and-justice training are “the enemy” and the “city is inflicting its socialist policies” on officers. In the March issue of police-union newspaper the Guardian (.pdf), Officer Steve Pomper announced that “an official action has been initiated against me which I am prohibited form commenting.”

What sort of “official action”? Seattle Police Department officials wont say, exactly. And they won’t comment on whether Pomper’s notorious writings are at issue.

But Sheila Friend Gray, the department’s public request unit manager, seems to indicate that it’s an investigation with the SPD’s Office of Professional Accountability, which handles complaints of misconduct. “[W]e have contacted the Internal Investigation section and they have notified us that the investigation you are requesting is currently open and ongoing,” writes Friend Gray. “Therefore… we are unable to release any information to you at this time. Disclosure of this information would jeopardize the investigation.”

Yesterday, the US Department of Justice launches a full-scale investigation into the SPD “concerning allegations of the use of excessive force and discriminatory policing.”

Pomper, for his part, has complained in the past: “The city, using its Race and Social Justice Initiative, continues its assault on traditional and constitutional American values.”

17 replies on “Officer Steve Pomper Under Investigation”

  2. “The city, using its Race and Social Justice Initiative, continues its assault on traditional and constitutional American values.”

    Translation:

    Respect my tradition of hating brown people.

  3. The man has a point. Racism and injustice ARE traditional American values. Maybe Officer Pompous needs to go practice them somewhere where they are more respected, like rural Mississippi.

  4. This isn’t really good news. As long as he’s not charged with insubordination, the root problem remains. The department is corrupt.

    Only slapping the cops who draw attention and get caught is not reform.

  6. @4 I think you meant to say “Only slapping the cops who draw attention and are recorded on audio and video doing it and get caught is not reform.”

  8. In my opinion Pomper was completely justified by the actions against Ian Burke.

    Although exonerated, and my own personal review of the two policecam videos upholds that ruling, he was forced out by top brass in the SPD who feared publicity more than doing their jobs and supporting their officers in the field.

    If anything, it’s the ones who succumbed to the pressure instead of doing a just review who should be fired.

  10. My god. I just read that whole fucking thing. I can’t believe the persecution complex of those fucking “men.”

    It’s clear that they are the true victims in all of this.

  11. Hey you bitches… very heard of free speech? Ist Amendment you fuck stix?

    Also… Fuck Japan… Remember Pearl Harbor

  14. How well I remember that clause in the US Constitution enshrining the right to kick open the skulls of immigrants. It’s a grand and noble document.

  16. The infrastructure of sanctioned police brutality is mired in bigotry, authoritarianism, inherent unaccountability and hatred. It is the armed domestic offense of a system that values war, profit and displayed material success over cooperative, healthy, egalitarian society where all people enjoy dignity, self determination, education, food, clothing and shelter. We are witness to the disregard for all but the elite. May people unite with global uprising to live solution rather than struggle under profit by destruction.

  17. The Race and Social Justice Initiative, at least in my little corner of the world, consists of watching the PBS program “Race:the power of illusion”, and then having a discussion. The whole thing takes about four hours.

    There’s book clubs and guest speakers that you can participate in if you want, but it’s voluntary.

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