Nathancat7
Jedi Master
Living in Spokane county I am aware of many abuses by the Spokane Police Department. This case happened several years ago. After being repeatedly tasered he was suffocated-- total abuse of force. Based on all the evidence I am surprised the City is trying to dismiss the lawsuit--I will research this case and provide a more informed comment. About a year ago a suicidal man with a history of mental illness was threatening to jump off the Monroe or Maple Street bridge into the Spokane River. Police decided to taser him rather than continue to talk him down. He fell into the river and died. In 2008 an off-duty Spokane Police Officer was resting in his ex-girlfriend's car with her outside Dempsey's (a downtown gay bar) where he had been partying that night and illegally packing heat as it turns out. A Navajo, Shonte Peete, approached his pick-up, wich was parked in front of the car, apparently asking for a ride--looking in the empty window. Officer confronted him and claimed he was trying to steal his pick-up. They exchanged confrontational words at which Shonte Peete walked/ran away. The Off -duty officer, dressed in plain clothes told him to stop and then went back to his pick-up to give chase--following and harassing him. Peete ran several blocks and down a gulch into Peaceful Valley. The officer, standing at the edge/top of Peaceful Valley 20(my guess) yards away told him to stop and that he just wanted to talk to him. Peete said no way may and started to run at which point the officer opened fire, hitting him in the back of the head--by some miricle only grazing Peete's skull and briefly knocking him out. Peete gathered himself as serveral more shots were fired and ran to the nearest house--where a couple saw his bleeding, heard the shots, and quickly grabbed him and pulled him inside--shutting the door. They called the Police and the off-duty officer fled the scene.
What has emerged from the case?
Peete was charged with trying to steal the officers truck but was acquitted. The dispatcher apparently lied in court, claiming that Peete admitted that he tried to steal Officers truck. The peaceful Valley couple have a different account--as Peete used their phone in their presence. However the dispatch recordings have been conveniently erased.
The officer was aquitted in his trial of all charges by the jury--the Judge did not admit a lot of evidence, including that Peete was aquitted of trying to steal the truck. He was dissmissed from for repeatedly atempting to speak with judge before his trial and using his suspended badge to illegally gain access For which he apologized. This pychopathiic officer used every trick he knew in order to get himself aquitted--including playing the sympathy card in the end crying to the jury and telling them he was gay. This was a subject that Peete, a mairried man, never broached. Outrage and amazement erupted in the city over the verdict for attempted murder and a hate crime of multiple levels. People said they no longer feel safe in the city knowing that this ex-cop is arround during a community meeting. Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick (former LAPD director) curiously came to the meeting with a gun holstered around her belt and was publically asked by Peete why she was packing heat. I see Peete walking downtown in the evening, probably on the advice from his elders.
What has emerged from the case?
Peete was charged with trying to steal the officers truck but was acquitted. The dispatcher apparently lied in court, claiming that Peete admitted that he tried to steal Officers truck. The peaceful Valley couple have a different account--as Peete used their phone in their presence. However the dispatch recordings have been conveniently erased.
The officer was aquitted in his trial of all charges by the jury--the Judge did not admit a lot of evidence, including that Peete was aquitted of trying to steal the truck. He was dissmissed from for repeatedly atempting to speak with judge before his trial and using his suspended badge to illegally gain access For which he apologized. This pychopathiic officer used every trick he knew in order to get himself aquitted--including playing the sympathy card in the end crying to the jury and telling them he was gay. This was a subject that Peete, a mairried man, never broached. Outrage and amazement erupted in the city over the verdict for attempted murder and a hate crime of multiple levels. People said they no longer feel safe in the city knowing that this ex-cop is arround during a community meeting. Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick (former LAPD director) curiously came to the meeting with a gun holstered around her belt and was publically asked by Peete why she was packing heat. I see Peete walking downtown in the evening, probably on the advice from his elders.
