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KOMO: 3 off-duty cops in alley brawl with Neighbours security — UPDATE: SPD documents

Turns out, not all has been calm on the icy streets of Capitol Hill this week. KOMO is reporting on an incident involving three off-duty police officers who got into a tussle with security at Neighbours early Monday morning:

When police arrived, the three men involved in the fight identified themselves as off-duty Seattle police officers, and added they had informed the security guards of their profession. 

The guard who was captured on camera tackling a man told police he had charged at the man even though he knew he was a police officer because the men “shouldn’t have acted like that if they were police officers,” he told investigators. He added one of the men had told him, “You don’t know anything about the law, Mexican,” the report said. 

The guard pointed out the man who had allegedly made this remark, but later said it was another man who had made the statement. Pressed by detectives, he later said he had charged at the man because he had grabbed the guard’s collapsible baton out of his pocket. Investigators found the baton on the ground at the scene. 

KOMO reports that nobody was injured or arrested and that the case has been referred to the Office of Professional Accountability for follow-up. UPDATE: We’ve added the SPD report on the incident and a statement on the investigation, below.


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Eric
Eric
12 years ago

Used to be Sunday night was Latino night at Neighbours.

Anonymous
12 years ago

Another example of SPD Cops swinging dick around. They are the biggest criminal gang around Puget Sound. Covering up their crimes faster than you can dial 9-1-1.

Michael Strangeways
Michael Strangeways
12 years ago

A trio of off duty cops hanging out at a gay bar?!?!? Or, just lurking in the alley?

Yes, I know that not everyone who goes to a gay bar is necessarily gay, and many people go to Neighbours for the music, but…still.

Interesting.

jseattle
jseattle
12 years ago

I’ll pull the report *if* SPD public info people are around on snowy Wednesday. It’s not yet publicly posted on their online system. The event wasn’t listed as an “assault” but as a “disturbance”

zeebleoop
12 years ago

“Another example of…”

anonymous blog commenters posting speculations without all the facts.

zoom
12 years ago

If you’re a cop and you happen to be a drunken jackass at a bar (even if you’re with two off-duty cop friends who may not be being jackasses), you should get treated just like any other drunken jackass, right?

I know nothing about this situation, but if cops are at a bar off duty, they’re under the same expectations of behavior as I am, right?

fed up
12 years ago

that’s true. so the guard had NO business jumping a cop off duty or not because he was acting in a manner the GUARD said wasn’t appropriate for a cop. FUCK the guard, he’s not even necessarily legal to work in this country if he’s working at Neighbour’s

There’s quite obviously more to this story. Frankly, the ‘security’ guard should have been tossed in jail for assaulting a cop.

Residual
12 years ago

I don’t get it, M. Strange…, what is it that is interesting about three off duty police officers being at a gay bar?

not fed up
12 years ago

“Frankly, the ‘security’ guard should have been tossed in jail for assaulting a cop. “

You just said there’s more to the story, yet you choose to make assumptions that lead you to that conclusion. You do not know who was in the wrong here.

“he’s not even necessarily legal to work in this country if he’s working at Neighbour’s”

Wow dude. You are seriously an ass. Don’t comment on shit you have no clue about. I know you have zero facts with which to back that statement up.

Details details
12 years ago

@ FU — very interesting that the security guard was not arrested for assault . . . .

ja
ja
12 years ago

so, cops can’t be gay? Hardly…

gryphyx
12 years ago

fed up, you are a loser.

upd
upd
12 years ago

I would hardly call neighbors a GAY bar, it was taken over years ago. Cuff = GAY, Neighbors = Bridge and Tunnel wannabe hang out.

Ernest Tee Bass
12 years ago

Is L**ino a racial slur? According to the original police report, calling someone “Mexican” is a racial slur.

On the other hand, why would all three SPD officers involved in this decline to take the responding officer’s business card?

This will likely be blown into some huge scandal with trials and lawsuits coming from all directions. Meanwhile, there was a murder about a block and a half away behind a school. I’m certainly more concerned with that this.

JimS.
12 years ago

A murder happening 3 blocks away isn’t carte blanche for everyone else to act up doing whatever they want, just because the murder is worse.

Offhand I’d say either “Mexican” or “Latino” could be construed as a slur depending totally on the context and the way it was uttered. If it was directed at you, you’d know if you were being slurred.

billy bee
12 years ago

so if anyone remembers a couple weeks ago spd dash cam showed a cop telling a guy from yakima that he would skull fuck him up the block. this was only a block away from this bar. so whats to say that this cop didnt come back off duty and try to find someone from neighbors that he could skull fuck? Hay door dude, leg sweep, COOL…

calhoun
12 years ago

Exaggeration and generalizations are not a great way to make a point.

Michael Strangeways
Michael Strangeways
12 years ago

Because there are very few out gay male cops.

And, once again, they might not be gay, just interested in Latin dance music.

If they ARE gay/bi, that would be great.

And, it’s interesting because of all the above. And, if they are closeted gay/bi/questioning then they’re in for some flack from some of their peers since some police officers aren’t very tolerant of gays in the ranks.

And, nearly every gay man on the planet thinks gay cops are…interesting.

Walker
12 years ago

I’m sorry you have a penis problem. But talking about it in a blog post is a classic cry for help.

There’s pumps and pills and things that might be able to help. Go see the folks at the Crypt.

As far as the Neighbours incident goes, I’ll be curious to see how this turns out. The role of the unnamed “business associate” of the bouncer is particularly intriguing to me. I smell a drunk troublemaker.

story updae
12 years ago

The SGN posted an article today on this incident.
http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews40_03/page1.cfm