Seattle Police Department Releases Department Text Messages From Bite of Seattle
The Seattle Police Department, in its ongoing commitment to transparency and accountability, is releasing text messages between key department leadership related to the Bite of Seattle shooting that occurred July 26th.
These messages include communications of the following personnel: Interim Chief Andre Sayles, Deputy Chief Yvonne Underwood, Assistant Chief Tyrone Davis, Assistant Chief Nicole Powell, Chief Operations Officer Sarah Smith, Captain George Davisson, Jennifer Sullivan, Lieutenant Sage Farwell, and Detective Brian Pritchard.
To ensure clarity, the messages are broken into groups by the individual sending/receiving them and are in chronological order beginning just before the initial reports of the incident. In the document, you will see redactions of victim names, dates of birth home addresses and phone numbers of both victims and police officials to protect privacy.
The Department is still waiting for Chief Shon Barnes’ text messages to be prepared. We will provide them when they are completely recovered from his account.
These messages are specific to the named department employees and do not encompass elected officials or other external agencies.
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