SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — Seattle’s police accountability office is investigating tweets by the head of the city’s police officers union that suggested Black Lives Matter and other liberal activists share blame for last week’s violence at the U.S. Capitol.
The Seattle Times reports that the Office of Police Accountability has opened an internal investigation into the tweets by Mike Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild.
The tweets include one on Friday saying that the “far right and far left are responsible for that sad day.”
Solan didn’t respond to requests for comment from the Times.
This as a 51-year-old Seattle man has been charged with assaulting a federal police officer during the U.S. Capitol violence last week.
The Seattle Times reports that Mark J. Leffingwell was also charged Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with entering a restricted building and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Leffingwell and his attorney did not respond to requests for comment.