SPOKANE — Spokane police Officer Nathan Nash knocked on a woman’s door in July 2019 after she reported her neighbor physically assaulted her. The woman was sobbing.
Days later, Nash returned to take photos of the woman’s injuries and raped her, she told police.
The body camera video of that initial interaction was shown in court Monday during Nash’s trial on multiple counts of rape, official misconduct and unlawful imprisonment. The charges stem from alleged attacks against two women in separate incidents in 2019.
In the second incident in October 2019, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Nash when a woman reported he had sexually assaulted her during a follow-up visit to an investigation into her report that her boyfriend physically assaulted her. Nash was arrested days later and was laid off by the police department in December 2019.