SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s police oversight board said Friday it will investigate the arrest of a protester who was seriously injured during an arrest this week.
A lawyer for the man said officers slammed the man to the ground and he hit his head on the pavement hard.
The Seattle Office of Police Accountability launched an investigation “to determine whether the individual was subjected to excessive force,” the agency’s director Andrew Myerberg.
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