SCOOP: DivestSPD has now identified all six officers who attended the deadly Trump rally in DC on January 6th.
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By cross-referencing publicly available data with materials obtained through public records requests, DivestSPD researchers have uncovered the names of three additional officers—all sergeants—who went to the disastrous DC rally that left 5 dead and hundreds injured. (1/ )
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One is K9 Acting Sergeant Jake Briskey.
Briskey has been named in five different successful civil rights lawsuits for excessive force and wrongful arrest. (2/)
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As it so happens, Sgt. Briskey was the subject of our very first cop trading card. (3/ )
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Check it out! The first of our series of bad cop trading cards: K9 Officer Jacob Briskey.
Briskey was involved in lawsuits totaling more than half a million dollars, the most famous of which was the wrongful arrest of black Boys & Girls' Club volunteer Romelle Bradford
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As a rookie, Briskey was sued for manhandling Romelle Bradford, a Black youth volunteer, and arresting him on a bogus contempt-of-cop charge. (4/ )
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In 2006, when Briskey was a rookie on the force, he was called by the Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club about a possible fight breaking out at an event. By the time Briskey arrived, club staff had gotten it under control.
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A few years later, Briskey was sued again for incident in which he and several other officers beat, tasered and wrongfully arrested a sleeping man. (5/ )
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In 2010, Naita Saechao was attending a friend's birthday party, when he grew tired and decided to go take a nap on a bed in the basement. A fight broke out and one of the partygoers slashed someone with a pocket knife...
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He was also sued over a noise complaint that turned into a bloody melee, when Briskey and slew of cops charged a backyard party in Columbia City.
During the chaos Briskey stomped a man's shin, fracturing it. (6/ )
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While much of the complaint deals with Bauer’s shovel rampage, Briskey makes a brief appearance. According to documents, he cornered Mr. A, tasered him, struck him with a baton and stomped his leg. Mr A was charged with assault and arrested
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Later, when Briskey was working in the gang unit, he & his partner Adley Shepherd profiled some Black youth waiting for their ride outside a movie theater, raising the ire of the NAACP. (note: Shepherd was ultimately fired for beating a handcuffed woman)
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In addition to the Saechao and Bradford cases, there’s another red flag on Briskey’s record: He was later accused of racial profiling by the NAACP during his time in the SPD Gang Unit.
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Also attending the Jan. 6 riots: Sgt. Scott Bach. (8/ )
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According to the rosters, Bach was the acting lieutenant in the southwest precinct on the day of the riots.
But on Jan. 7 he is listed as a sergeant.
Could be a coincidence... (9/ )
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Bach has three active investigations, including the one for involvement in the Capitol rally and another for "integrity and ethics" (10/ )
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Next up: The Honeymooners.
Identified by DivestSPD earlier this year, Alexander Everett & Caitlin Rochelle are a couple.
They transferred to SPD together in 2017, then married in Dec. 2020. They've each averaged roughly 2 complaints annually in their careers (above avg).(11/)
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Though it hasn't been confirmed if they travelled together, Jason Marchione—previously ID'd by — works the same shift and beat as Rochelle. (12/ )
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Like Everett and Rochelle, Marchione was hired in 2017 and has averaged two complaints a year.
In one, a Black man alleged that Marchione broke his wrist during a hard takedown.
45% of Marchione's uses of force have been against Black people (SPD avg=30%)(13/)
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Last up is Michael Settle, the acting sergeant detective of the vice unit. His record is surprisingly sparse.
Possible explanation: He became a detective in 2011 and therefore faced fewer situations that might generate public complaints. (14/ )
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