Washington officers who died from COVID-19 included on state law enforcement memorial
Five law enforcement officers died from COVID-19 in 2020. Their names are now part of the Peace Officers Memorial on the state Capitol campus in Olympia. Author: Drew Mikkelsen Updated: 5:53 PM PDT June 4, 2021
OLYMPIA, Wash. The list of law enforcement officers killed while serving the state of Washington now includes the names of five officers who died from COVID-19 in 2020.
State correctional officers David Christensen and Berisford Morse, Yakima Corrections Officer Daniel Oaks, Bainbridge Island Police Officer Kurt Enget and Grant County Deputy Dan Melvin all died from complications of COVID-19.
It was as a boy that Christopher Ylagan picked up guitar through lessons from his father. A love for The Beatles came too. Over the years, Christopher would become a Beatles fiend: He d grow a collection of anthologies, pick up magazines and merchandise. He’d name his son after John Lennon.
When Paul McCartney’s Freshen Up tour brought him to Vancouver in 2019, Christopher’s wife, Glend, bought tickets as a surprise.
“When Paul came out to the stage the first time, (Christopher) cried and said, ‘Oh my goodness,’” she recalled.
The two were to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary about a month ago on March 17. Instead, that day Glend mourned Christopher’s death at a funeral service. He died in late February after a bout with COVID-19, which Glend believes he contracted in an outbreak that occurred at an adult family home in Bremerton where the two worked, he, as a certified nursing assistant, she as a nurse.
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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.
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