Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan’s recent tweets -- including one saying the “far right and far left are responsible for that sad day” – are the subject of an internal investigation, said the civilian director of the city's...
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The president of Seattle's rank and file police officers' union is under fire from a state police group, the city's mayor and other public figures for his comments on social media this week suggesting Black Lives Matter and other liberal activists are partly to blame for Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob supporting President Donald Trump.
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The SPOG president has been a vocal commenter on social media since Wednesday's siege.
A day after the insurrection, Solan retweeted a tweet from Andy Ngo, a conservative Portland blogger critical of Black Lives Matter and leftist causes, which identified one of the participants among the Capitol mob as "an extreme BLM activist." Solan added his own comment to the retweet, saying that as the mainstream media "tells us who to blame for yesterday's #troubles, @MrAndyNgo continues to be reliable."