Op-Ed: Inquest into Faletogo Killing Highlights Seattle…
Originally reported by Theurbanist — 2025-05-22
A 2018 traffic stop ended with a horrific Seattle police killing deemed “lawful and proper.” Six years later a jury sees it differently. On January 21st a six-member King County inquest jury concluded their unusually long four days of deliberations into the Seattle Police Department (SPD) killing of Iosia Faletogo on New Year’s Eve of 2018. Two of the jurors found that SPD officer Jared Keller’s use of deadly force was not legally justifiable and had caused Faletogo’s death by criminal means. This marked the first time in history an inquest juror found that an SPD officer engaged in criminal conduct. The Faletogo inquest is only the second inquest in history where more than one juror found that any police officer working in King County had engaged in criminal conduct.
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