Note: Updated with added material at the end.
A police officer says it plainly on bodycam: “It’s a lie, but it’s fun.” What follows is not a comedy of bad judgment, but a chain of consequences that ends with a dead man and an institution that shrugs with a six-day unpaid suspension. We start with the Seattle Police Department “ruse,” trace how a false story metastasizes through a community, and ask why the justice system so often treats real damage as an optics problem instead of a moral crime.
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