Seattle City attorneys officially threw down the gauntlet with the Department of Justice
last week, filing court documents which challenged the “reliability and trustworthiness”
of a recent DOJ report on the Seattle Police. The DOJ report, which “finds a pattern or
practice of constitutional violations regarding the use of force… as well as serious
concerns about biased policing,” has been offered as evidence in an ongoing court case
brought by Martin Monetti Jr. against the City of Seattle.Monetti, a Latino man, had his
head stomped into the pavement after being told by then-Detective Shandy Cobane that he
would “beat the [expletive] Mexican piss out of you, homie.” ---- This is just the latest
move by Mayor Mike McGinn and the Seattle Police Department in their escalating strategy
of resistance to the Department of Justice, who have repeatedly called for reform of the
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