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Satterberg said he won’t pursue any charges related to assaults on police officers until he sees all available video footage including from body-worn cameras.
“Frankly, there was bad conduct on all sides,” he said. “A case like this, a trial like this, would be necessarily a review of the conduct and force that was used by all parties.”
And he said he’s reluctant to add to the 5,000 felony cases already backlogged in King County Superior Court due to the pandemic. The county just resumed its first jury trial this week, questioning potential jurors remotely.
“We have huge numbers of cases to resolve and we don’t need political show trials that involve protests and pushing back and forth on a police line,” Satterberg said.
He said he’d rather start looking at policy solutions being demanded by protesters.