Seattle, WA – A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that two Seattle police officers will be allowed to proceed with their defamation lawsuit against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant.
Seattle Police Officer Scott Miller and Officer Michael Spaulding filed a lawsuit against Sawant and the City of Seattle in 2017 after she allegedly defamed them by publicly declaring a justified shooting they were involved in was a “blatant murder at the hands of police,” The Seattle Times reported.
According to the lawsuit, Sawant also called the officers “racist murderers” and claimed the shooting was the result of “racial profiling,” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, KUOW reported.
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Around five days after the shooting, while it was still under investigation, Kshama Sawant appeared before the media implying that she had special inside information on the shooting and declared it to be a “brutal murder” as a product of “racial profiling.”
The officers were cleared of any wrongdoing at a jury inquest hearing.
Why this idiot was voted onto their city council is beyond me.
