KENT, Wash. – The City of Kent will pay over $1.5 million to settle a dispute with a former assistant police chief who displayed a Nazi insignia on his office door.
Derek Kammerzell, who was also overheard joking about the Holocaust, was initially given two weeks unpaid leave after the 2020 incident.
The city reached the deal with Kammerzell to ensure his departure and says if they had simply fired him, he likely would have won his job back.
An investigation concluded he knew the meaning of the SS insignia.
The SS was a Nazi paramilitary group responsible for the murder of millions of Jews and others in Europe during World War II.