By james art 
A new report accuses the newly elected Sheriff Keith Swank of making “disrespectful” and “biased, inflammatory” social media publications when he still works for SPD.
Seattle – The new sheriff of Pierce County would be fired by the Seattle Police Department (SPD) if he still worked there, according to a new disciplinary report by leaving police chief of Seattle.
A disciplinary report signed by former Temporary Police Chief of January 30, accuses the newly elected Sheriff Keith Swank of making “disrespectful” and “addicted, inflammatory” social media in 2023 when he was still working as a captain as a captain Police for captain of police for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain of police captain of police captain for police captain of a police captain of a police captain of a police captain of a police captain Police captain for police captain for police captain of police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain for police captain of police SPDs.
“You have given the people we serve, to believe that you and the commanders under your command will not treat them fairly and fairly, especially given your rank,” Rach wrote in the report.
After a 30-year career with SPD, Swank retired in 2023 shortly after the police report began an investigation into his posts. He was selected as a sheriff of Pierce County in November 2024.
The report states that Swank makes comments on social media against transgender people; They claim that “Democrats are happy – well – to hit babies” in connection with abortion rights; He said that US representative Nancy Pelosi “coordinates” the attack on January 6 against the United States.
Rahr also said the use of Swank from the term “thug” when he refers to a black teenager in one of his posts is “racially charged Slur [that] It can be reasonably interpreted as prejudice and/or shameful comment based on race. ”
At a meeting with Rah Swank, he claims that his comments are in the first amendment, as he runs for a place in the US Congress and that his posts are purposefully provocative to start talks and get their name there. In 2022, Swank lost his competition in the US Congress of Democrat Marilyn Strickland.
During the same meeting, Rah said in his report that Swank “stood on his” transfobal posts and “said OPA simply did not like” his policy.
“You have discouraged the department and the profession,” Rah said in the report.
In a statement to King 5, Suonk stated that “the wrong characteristics of the department are completely false and one hundred percent politically motivated. If the best brass, mayor and City Council of SPD spend so much time fighting crime as well as in guerrilla policy, then Seattle will have more serious problems.
Rach, who was a temporary acting head from May 2024 to January 30, signed the disciplinary report on the Suonk yesterday – her last day of work, as the incoming police chief Sean Barnes took the main role.