'I'm happy the law works,': Police accountability law sees first conviction after 8 years

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'I'm happy the law works,': Police accountability law sees first conviction after 8 years
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Officer Jeff Nelson became the first officer in Washington state convicted by a jury for murder for on-duty actions under the state's police accountability law.

Auburn police Officer Jeffrey Nelson is taken into custody after two guilty verdicts were handed down by the jury Thursday at the King County Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, Washington, on June 27, 2024. "It's eight years. And to see it...one part, the 2018, was changing the law.

Che was fatally shot by two Seattle Police Department officers during an undercover drug bust in 2016. Four years later in 2020, theSeattle settles wrongful death lawsuit for $1.5M over death of Che Taylor in 2016 “It's precedent for Washington State, yes. For it to never have happened before. To have a law that said that we had to prove malice. And really what malice was is that no matter how bad an officer's behavior was, we could do anything about it," said Taylor.

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