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Bellevue police agree to $125K settlement after a call for a welfare check ends with handcuffs, criminal charge and injury By Mike Carter, The Seattle Times
Published: March 14, 2021, 12:30pm
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Kellie Burlingham and her husband, Marc Ramsey, were yanked out of sleep one night in 2017 by a commotion in the living room. Kellie’s 23-year-old son, Quentin, was yelling. She heard other, strange voices in her home as well, raised and commanding.
The couple emerged from their bedroom to find three Bellevue police officers in their living room, struggling to restrain the pajama-clad Quentin, who is autistic. The officers were pushing him down into a chair and pulling out their handcuffs.