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Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning.

Here are today's top stories as we head into a long weekend.

It's Friday, May 24th.

Starting with what's happening within the SPD.

An assistant chief with the Seattle Police Department has been placed on administrative leave.

Assistant Chief,

Tyrone Davis, is being investigated by the Independent Watchdog Agency, the Office of Police Accountability. This is according to an SPD spokesperson who spoke with the Seattle Times. The police

department did not provide details on why it put Davis on leave. He commands the Special Operations Bureau overseeing the hostage negotiations team, the arson

bomb squad and the SWAT team, and he was an investigator with the OPA, which is now investigating

him.

In some other policing news, three prominent community leaders are coming to the defense of SPD chief, Adrian Diaz.

Diaz and the whole department are facing multiple tort claims and lawsuits regarding discrimination and a hostile workplace.

But coming to his side this week are Victoria Beach, head of the African American Advisory Council, Reverend

Harriet Walden, who founded mothers for police accountability, and Carmen Martinez, the Latino

advisory liaison. Martinez, alleges the lawsuits are coming from disgruntled employees.

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