Seattle Cop In Stomping Incident Accused of More Brutality

Seattle Detective Shandy Cobane, who earlier this year was caught on video stomping on and shouting racial profanities at a Latino man, has been accused again of abusive misconduct.

Seattle’s KIRO reports that the Seattle police department has an open complaint against Cobane from a man who says he was nearly strangled by the officer after a bar brawl that happened a week after Cobane’s most high-profile incident of abuse. Seattle’s internal investigation unit is still looking into the incident.

David Alexander Rengo says on April 24 he was in the middle of a fight outside a bar and had been punched by someone when Cobane and other police officers jumped into the melee and started throwing punches too. But Rengo says it wasn’t until he was in police custody, handcuffed and seated in a patrol car, that Cobane turned around and started choking him.

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