A U.S. Navy sailor on Capitol Hill to celebrate his 25th birthday with friends was duped by two men pretending to be Seattle cops and robbed in a 13th Ave parking lot early Tuesday, police say.
According to the report on the 1:30a incident, the man told police he was sitting in his vehicle in the Auto Accessories parking lot across the street from The Cuff attempting to call a friend when two males approached his vehicle, knocked on the window and announced that they were “Seattle Police Officers” —
The subject allegedly said, “Seattle Police-step out of the car.” Even though the suspects never showed XXXX their badges, wore their hoods pulled over their heads, and had no visible side arms on their person as most Seattle Officers, XXXX did not initially ask any questions and stepped from the vehicle as instructed. Positioned just outside the driver door, the suspect wearing the stripe sweatshirt asked XXXX “Where the weed?is where is the meth? where is the crack?” XXXX told the suspect that he didn’t have any drugs. At the same time XXXX was being interrogated by the suspect wearing the stripe shirt, the second suspect rummaged through the rear passenger seats.
The victim told police that the fake cop rummaging through his vehicle found the victim’s wallet and T-Mobile Android phone and put them in his pocket. At that point, the victim said he found it suspicious that a police officer would pocket his possessions.
The victim said he decided to ask the men if they could complete their investigation at the nearby East Precinct at 12th and Pine. At that, the victim told police the two suspects fled the scene with his wallet and phone.
A search for the suspects was not successful..
So close to the real cops too. This guy must be from a small town or something because police don’t just come up to your car like that usually wearing hoodies and you always have the right to ask to see a badge.
Not showing badges, their hoods pulled over their heads, and the lack of visible side arms are all important clues. Most significantly, if they’re not hosing you down with pepper spray, chances are they’re not Seattle cops. Be wary.
But if they’re beating the “Mexican p*ss” out of you, then you’re safely in the hands of the Seattle police.
Or say, if they are working diligently for nine hours trying to find a madman that shot up and killed 5 or so people in two different locations…how quickly you focus on the few incidents etaoin. May you never need law enforcement to help you.
Broken record, the Department of Justice would disagree with you about the “few incidents.” Last December, the DoJ found that the Seattle Police Department “engages in a pattern or practice of using unnecessary or excessive force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
P.S. Check your arithmetic. Five hours, not nine, elapsed between the 11 AM shootings at Cafe Racer and Stawicki’s 4 PM suicide in West Seattle.
Seriously! As soon as I read the title I thought, well that seems safer than having the real cops around. I’d take a missing phone and wallet over being shoved to the ground coated in pepper spray every time.
Is it ever?
Oh, my bad on the math there. As we all know the cops that did all this in 5 hours then got to go right home at 4pm and forget every single, horrible thing they witnessed that day, easy as that! All ready to go for the moron protests tonight at 8pm!
Last month there was the sword fight over a bad drug deal right behind the precinct and now people pretending to be cops robbing people a block away. Pretty soon the criminals will just rob the police station when they need something.
etaoin shrdlu — You are big pansy pussy! Seattle PD do a great job. If anything they don’t’ use enough force in this city.
“Jane Harter,” you’re on the wrong blog. This is the Capitol Hill blog, but your comment reveals that you live under the bridge in Fremont.
Don’t go away mad. Just go away.
Oh, get over the chip on your shoulder. SPD works daily to keep you safe. Don’t punish hundreds of diligent officers for the actions of a few. The mexican piss officer had been on the gang unit for ages. Do you have any idea what that entails? And the DOJ is also investigating the jail, which is staffed by county, not city, corrections employees who are not police officers and have nothing to do with the police. DOJ has also found them lacking and found their nursing staff to be sadists. While DOJ may indeed be correct, the bigger picture is that there are literally thousands of LEA and LEA support employees who care, work diligently every day, and are traumatized by what they see. There are also nurses working with HIV, drug addicted, homeless, etc. inmates and doing their best to save their lives. Sometimes, like the Mexican Piss cop, they need counseling and retraining. That doesn’t mean you tar and feather the lot any more than I tar and feather all gay men because one once punched me in the face when I was 15.
Well, if the police do anything, much less arrest someone for assaulting them or smashing windows or dragging trashcans in to the street, the OccuAnarchists will cry. So what do you expect?
Fake report about fake cops