UpdatedMon, May 24, 2021 at 5:16 pm PT
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A wall outside of the Seattle Police Department s East Precinct is seen on Aug. 30, 2020, in Seattle. (David Ryder/Getty Images, File)
SEATTLE A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 months behind bars for setting a fire outside the Seattle Police Department s East Precinct last fall.
According to prosecutors, on August 24, 2020, then 19-year-old Desmond David-Pitts set a trash fire outside the East Precinct building during a mass protest in Seattle s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Other records filed in the case show that David-Pitts had arrived in Seattle from Alaska just three days before the incident.
Surveillance video of the incident reportedly shows David-Pitts piling trash near a sally-port door outside the police precinct, and repeatedly lighting the debris on fire.