SEATTLE — (Scroll Down For Video) — Officer Cynthia Whitlatch was served today with a termination notice for sustained policy violations involving bias, abuse of police discretion, and escalation of a contact on July 9, 2014.
The 69-year-old man had already accepted a plea offer in this case.
The City Attorney’s Office and SPD took a second look at this case and recommended that it be dismissed.
Deputy Chief Best personally met with the man, returned his golf club, and offered an apology for his arrest.
In the police report for this July 9, 2014 incident, an officer stated she had witnessed the man swing a golf club toward her, striking a stop sign as she drove past him near 11th Avenue and E. Pike Street.
The officer then contacted the man and ordered him to surrender his golf club. The man refused and was arrested and booked into the King County Jail for obstruction and harassment.
Dashcam video from July 9, 2014. Officer Cynthia Whitlach’s interaction with Wingate:
You can read the termination notice HERE.
