A video showing Seattle police officers stomping on a man's head and body and using a racial epithet has prompted an internal investigation by authorities and disgust from the mayor.Interestingly, this is all coming out at the same time the Seattle city council is planning to vote for a boycott of Arizona because of what they perceive is a racist immigration law. They're going to protest racism that isn't happening while real racism is occurring within their police department.
One of the officers involved, a 15-year veteran, apologized at a Friday night news conference for his "hateful words."
The incident occurred as Seattle police were responding to an armed robbery call near a nightclub in Seattle's Westlake neighborhood on April 17. Patrons had called police and described the suspects as Hispanic.
The video -- shot by a freelance videographer and aired Thursday by KIRO -- shows a group of officers surrounding two men lying on the ground.
At one point, an officer approaches one of the men and can be heard saying: "You got me? I'm going to beat the (expletive) Mexican (expletive) out of you homey. You feel me?"
Soon after, officers kick the man in the head, hand and leg.
It turned out the man was not the robbery suspect, and the officers let him go.
Perhaps they should leave Arizona alone and boycott themselves.
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Reads sort of like trying to get the splinter out of someone else's eye(Arizona) when they have a Beam in their own eye. Seattle must have more money than they know what to do with, glad they got snagged on this one with the corruption they have in their own department.
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