Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S.

Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities should be made public. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled in February that they can be identified and that they haven’t shown that public release of their names violates their right to privacy. The state supreme court denied reconsideration earlier this month and lawyers for the four officers submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that the names remain protected during their legal challenge.

Four officers who attended events in the nation’s capital on the day of an insurrection claimed they are protected under the state’s public records law. They say they did nothing wrong and that revealing their names would violate their privacy.

  • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    81·
    24 hours ago

    Sure seems like they they know they did something wrong if they dont want anybody to know about it

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      22 hours ago

      They can never get their stories right about anything. First, it was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI working with BLM and “antifa” and no magats were there. Then, you had Marjorie Trailer Queen crying over a fake installation of them in prison and they were declaring they were “political prisoners” because it was just a “day of love”, etc…

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        5 hours ago

        That’s the thing, they don’t have to get their stories “right” about anything. The blatant hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. It’s a complete waste of time to focus on it.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      121·
      22 hours ago

      That certainly is the logic they use when they cruise around with Stingray devices in their cruisers that honeypot/MiTM every single 4g/5g/Wifi drevice in a 100m+ radius.

      iF yOu hAvE nOThInG to HiDE yOU HavE nOtHInG toO WoRRy abOUt

    • forrgott@lemm.ee
      4·
      22 hours ago

      No. They didn’t think they did anything wrong. It’s insane, but I’m serious. They are absolutely convinced they are the good guys.

      Which is why they believe they don’t deserve to have any consequences. But the evil left will “cancel” them if they’re doxxed, and that’s just not fair since they were doing the “good” things.