SEATTLE — The U.S. Justice Department says it’s announcing its findings Friday from a civil rights investigation of the Seattle Police Department.
The investigation was launched last spring following the fatal shooting of a homeless, Native American woodcarver and other incidents of force used against minority suspects.
The investigation was aimed at determining whether Seattle police have a “pattern or practice” of violating civil rights or discriminatory policing, and if so, what they should do to improve.
The assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s civil rights division, Thomas E. Perez, is scheduled to join Seattle U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan in announcing the findings Friday morning.
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