Seattle Detective Kicks Innocent Man, Hurls Racial Epithet
Seattle Detective Apologizes for Racial Epithet
(May 8) — A Seattle police officer offered a tearful apology after being caught on camera kicking an innocent man and using a racial epithet.
The video shows a group of officers standing around three men who are lying on the ground. Seattle Police Detective Shandy Cobane shouts, “I’m going to beat the [expletive] Mexican [expletive] out of you homey! You feel me?”
Cobane later kicks the man in the head and another cop kicks him in the hand.
The detective sobbed as he gave a news conference on Friday to apologize to the Latino community, his colleagues and the city of Seattle, The Seattle Times reported.