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Seattle officers didn’t violate policies by wearing black bands on badges or keeping cameras off, OPA review finds By Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times
Published: December 24, 2020, 9:30am
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SEATTLE Seattle police officers didn’t violate any policies when they wore badges with black bands and kept their body-worn cameras turned off during protests this spring and summer, the Office of Police Accountability determined in new reports released Wednesday.
Particularly during the earliest Seattle protests this year in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis, protesters and others had accused officers of trying to conceal police misconduct by not recording their actions and by using black tape on their badges, which protesters said obscured officers’ serial numbers.