John is a man of the world and notes these things, worrying greatly over it. Cottrell, and gradually his sinister influence impresses her so that she begins to fear him. Dallas uses his knowledge that Edgar is a crook to further his friendship with Mrs. Through a combination of strange circumstances, in which Emily's scapegrace brother, Edgar, plays a prominent part and the young wife's too great confidence in the unscrupulous Dallas cause her husband to seriously suspect her fidelity. John Cottrell and his young wife Emily, Morgan Dallas, an old college friend of the former, appears to cast the first cloud upon the domestic happiness of the hitherto devoted couple. That police official told investigators the idea was to give people monitoring police radio transmissions the impression that “we had more officers out there doing regular stuff” at a time when the department was overwhelmed by protest activity.At a lawn party given by Mr.
OPA contacted the department’s operations center and intelligence unit and learned there had been a miscommunication effort approved, ordered and led by a captain who later became an assistant chief and then left the department. OPA couldn’t locate any relevant video and launched an investigation. There was no investigation into the hoax until late 2020, when Converge Media journalist Omari Salisbury asked OPA for body camera video from the officers who had supposedly tailed the Proud Boys group. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in late May had sparked large-scale protests in Seattle, with the police barricading streets around the East Precinct and deploying tear gas. The Proud Boys ruse was deployed at an extremely tense moment. The officers used poor judgment, but their supervisors were mostly to blame for failing to provide adequate supervision, Myerberg determined. Myerberg didn’t sustain allegations of policy violations against four officers identified as having taken part in the chatter. The two employees who ordered and supervised the misinformation effort and who Myerberg sustained allegations of policy violations against have left the department, according to the case summary. It appears unlikely, however, that anyone will face punitive actions. Fabricating the group of Proud Boys violated department policies, Myerberg determined. The June 8 radio chatter was part of an approved “misinformation effort” that police leaders knew about, according to Wednesday’s closed-case summary by Myerberg, which is now under review by police department leaders for disciplinary rulings. Though some people in the zone may have brought guns regardless of the chatter, the ruse “improperly added fuel to the fire,” Office of Police Accountability Director Andrew Myerberg concluded. Social media posts warning about the Proud Boys group by people monitoring police radio transmissions caused alarm in the protest zone. … They may be looking for somewhere else for confrontation.” The officers who participated described a group gathering by City Hall and delivered reports such as, “It looks like a few of them might be open carrying,” and: “Hearing from the Proud Boys group.
The ruse happened June 8, 2020, hours after the police department abandoned its East Precinct and as protesters were starting to set up the temporary zone that was later called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.