Seattle警察局临时局长发表声明：一名警督因2025年Cal Anderson Park集会执法期间的不当言辞被书面申斥
位于华盛顿州国王县的西雅图市，Seattle 警察局（SPD）临时局长 Andre Sayles 10月16日晚发表声明说，警察问责办公室（OPA）完成调查后，他已就一名警督在2025年5月24日 Cal Anderson Park 的 Mayday USA 集会及反示威活动期间的行为，向其发出书面申斥。
Sayles 说，该警督在带队准备实施逮捕时所说的话被随身执法记录仪录下，不符合他对任何 Seattle 警员、尤其是指挥人员的标准。他说：「领导者为下属定下基调。警员进入人群之前说的话，会塑造这场人群执法的方式。」
在纪律决定上，Sayles 表示他遵循了该局的渐进式纪律原则，以保证公平与一致：该警督此前有轻微纪律记录，OPA 对被认定成立的指控给出了一个纪律幅度建议，他的决定落在这个幅度之内。他说，渐进式纪律旨在纠正行为、追究责任，并明确再犯将面临更严厉的后果。
Sayles 同时表示，对单个人的纪律处分并不能解决监察长办公室（OIG）「哨兵事件审查」提出的更大关切。该审查认定，SPD 当时没有理解 LGBTQ+ 社区关切的深度，当天的行动损害了社区信任；Sayles 表示他接受这一结论。
他说，SPD 已经着手落实 OIG 的建议，包括加强人群管理、扩大 LGBTQ+ 联络员与顾问委员会的工作，并在涉及相关社区的活动举行之前、而不是之后，直接与社区组织沟通。Cal Anderson Park 位于 Seattle 的 LGBTQ+ 社区历史核心地带。Sayles 说，Seattle 的每一位居民，无论身份与信仰，都应得到一个公平保护其权利、待人有尊严的警察部门。
据 Seattle 警察局10月16日通过 SPD Blotter 发布的临时局长声明。
Seattle Interim Police Chief Issues Written Reprimand to Lieutenant Over Language Used During 2025 Cal Anderson Park Rally
Seattle is a city in King County, Washington. Seattle Police Department (SPD) Interim Chief Andre Sayles said in a statement on the evening of October 16 that, following a completed investigation by the Office of Police Accountability (OPA), he has issued a written reprimand to a lieutenant for his conduct during the May 24, 2025, Mayday USA rally and counterdemonstration at Cal Anderson Park.
Sayles said the language the lieutenant used, captured on body-worn video as his team prepared to make arrests, did not reflect the standards he expects of any Seattle police officer, and certainly not of a supervisor. "Leaders set the tone for those they lead. Words spoken before officers enter a crowd shape how that crowd is policed," he said.
In determining discipline, Sayles said he followed the principles of progressive discipline that guide the department and are required for fairness and consistency. The lieutenant had a minor prior disciplinary history, OPA recommended a range of disciplines for the sustained finding, and his decision falls within that range. Progressive discipline, he said, is meant to correct conduct, hold employees accountable, and make clear that repeated misconduct will bring more serious consequences.
Sayles added that discipline for one individual does not resolve the larger concerns raised by the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) Sentinel Event Review. That review found that the department did not understand the depth of concern within the LGBTQ+ community before the event, and that its actions that day damaged trust — a finding Sayles said he accepts.
He said the department has begun acting on the OIG's recommendations, strengthening its crowd management practices, expanding the work of its LGBTQ+ liaison and advisory council, and engaging directly with community organizations before — not after — events that affect them. Cal Anderson Park sits in the historic heart of Seattle's LGBTQ+ community, and Sayles said every person in the city, whatever their identity or beliefs, deserves a police department that protects their rights fairly and treats them with dignity.
Source: Statement by the interim chief published by the Seattle Police Department via SPD Blotter on October 16, 2026.
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图片来源：图：Seattle 的 Cal Anderson Park，2025年5月24日的集会与反示威在此举行。Douglas J. McLaughlin 等摄，CC BY 2.5，经维基共享资源。Image: Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, where the May 24, 2025 rally and counterdemonstration took place. Photo by Douglas J. McLaughlin et al., CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
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