Newly released records reveal a Seattle police officer was fired from his job for trying to cover up his involvement in a hit-and-run crash and then trying to pressure a woman involved in that crash to lie to police.

Records also reveal the officer was also accused of sexually assaulting the woman.

This incident happened in February 2021, but the criminal case and the Office of Police Accountability investigation only just wrapped up at the end of last year, ending with that officer being charged with a DUI and fired for his actions.

The report states on February 9, 2021, the officer, who is not named in the OPA investigation report, was out with a woman in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and the two, “drank seventeen shots of tequila between the two of them over about two-and-a-half hours.”
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