SEATTLE — A Seattle police officer was put on leave Friday as officials, for the second time this month, called for cultural reform within the department — this time over audio of the white officer using sexist and racist slurs in a dispute with his Chinese American neighbor.
Audio published by The Stranger appears to depict Seattle police Officer Burton Hill peppering his neighbor with a barrage of explicit, sexist and racist insults in an August 2022 argument over the neighbor allegedly leaving food scraps outside that could have harmed Hill’s dog.