A Seattle police lieutenant received a written reprimand for telling officers to (expletive) people up” while responding to a counterprotest of a Christian fundamentalist rally last year at Cal Anderson Park.
The reprimand was the latest fallout from the Seattle Police Department’s violent response to dueling demonstrations on May 24, 2025, on Capitol Hill, the historic hub of Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community. Public outcry over Mayday USA’s city-permitted event intensified after officers responded to counterprotesters with batons, bicycles, pepper spray and pepper ball launchers.
The seven-hour police response resulted in 23 arrests, and most of those charges were eventually dropped, according to a February review of the Police Department’s response by Seattle’s office of inspector general for public safety…