Officer involved in Olympia shooting named in unlawful detention case
Jun 4, 2015, 3:50 PM | Updated: 4:41 pm
The Olympia officer who shot two stepbrothers in May is named in a case alleging unlawful detention. (AP file photo)
(AP file photo)
The Olympia officer who shot two stepbrothers in May is named in a case alleging unlawful detention.
Officer Ryan Donald is one of six people named in a $1 million claim for damages filed by an employee of CenturyLink. The claim was filed Wednesday, June 3.
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In the statement from the employee, he says the officers held him at gunpoint outside of a CenturyLink office on May 28, 2014. The employee was returning from a late-night service call, according to the statement.
After putting the employee in handcuffs and verifying the man’s identification – twice – he was released.
“As the officers walked away, they were laughing it up and walking away as if they didn’t [sic] nothing wrong, like it was a game,” the employee wrote in the statement. “None of the officers ever identified themselves, rendered an apology or anything.”
The employee was detained because Donald had driven past the location “hundreds of times” and never saw it open, he wrote to the Executive Department of the City of Olympia.
There was no police report filed for the incident, according to emails from the city. However, a dispatch number was created.
The other officers involved in the claim are George Clark, Jonathan Hazen, Eric Henrichsen, Matthew Renschler, and Randy Wilson.
