Patrol car parked outside Seattle Police Department East Precinct building on Sept. 17 2023, in Seattle. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS
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.
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