Jamie Tompkins claims that the police scandal in Seattle was a setup

SEATTLE – – The former chief of staff of Seattle Police Department, Jamie Tompkins, speaks for the first time over the 18 months in which she worked at SPD what she describes. She felt “injured, degraded and dehuman”.

Tompkins believes that in a conspiracy she was “collateral damage” to remove Adrian Diaz as a boss, and she says that there is new evidence that a birthday card on the subject of Star Wars, which both ended SPD careers, was a fake.

“I don't write notes on people. There are no birthday cards. There are no anonymous love letters and there are no notes,” said Tompkins. “Conclusion – it is made.”

Tompkins defended herself that her work and her relationship with Diaz in an emotional, hourly interview so far have not yet spoken publicly about her ordeal.

“I am not the author of an anonymous birthday card, but I am the author of this request letter. And that's my true story. I have experienced that,” said Tompkins. “I have the documentary and feel good with it. We connect the points. Our lawyers combine the points. Therefore, ask for another examination, an external criminal examination.”

The background story:

Tompkin's letter to Mayor Bruce Harrell asks the city to pay its $ 3 million damages because it no longer hired the rumors she slept with the boss. She said in the 18 months she worked for SPD that she was exposed to an almost constant harassment of her appearance, and she claims that some of the coarse comments were held by the mayor in a conversation with Diaz.

“He says Mayor Harrell told him that he was not interested in the rumor because he would do me too,” recalled Tompkins. “It is not the reaction that I would imagine. I would imagine that he says: You know: 'It's unacceptable. It is not tolerated.' But to hear that I would do it too – it just felt like he was tolerated.

Diaz confirmed Fox 13 Seattle independently the accuracy of Tompkins' accounts, both in her demand letter and for our interview. We contacted the mayor's office to see if he wanted to discuss the incident and are still waiting for an answer. When Harrell was previously asked about Tompkins' demand letter, he said that he could not comment on pending legal disputes.

The former Fox 13 Seattle news anchor was only a experience a few months before the tradition of the whispering campaign in comments on social media sites, an experience that stermed them.

“This is pretty much the feeling of my entire time at SPD, treated like a piece of meat,” said Tompkins.

There were hundreds of reactions and comments that talked about her history, but she says that nobody spoke to her: Tompkins' formal complaints about her treatment by some of the departments of the department did not go anywhere. “I felt that I was just talking to a vacuum,” recalled Tompkins. “I sent my symptoms to human resources by e -mail. I would have sent some symptoms to Oig [Office of the Inspector General]. To grandpa [Office of Police Accountability]. All of them went unanswered. “

Tompkins finally spoke to Oig on August 31, but not about her complaints: she was interviewed by the city as part of Chief Diaz's examination. “I wrote a letter with the inscription: 'Listen if you want to sit here and talk about my body, I better include my voice.' I got an e -mail from the investigator, but she didn't want to speak of anything, “said Tompkins.

After rehearsals, she asked her to compare with a teddy bear-like EWOK on the front in a birthday card of a children's star of Papyrus with a handwriter for adults:

“Adrian, when I think of you, I think of the first time that I saw you smile. You were so shy, but cute. And I loved how you chose your words so carefully. I wondered what you filtered out. What did you get to tick. What made you laugh. What a person who wanted to take on.

The card was one of the most important evidence used by OIG to determine that Diaz had an affair with its subordinate tompkins, which Mayor Harrell used as justification for fire.

The investigators said that two members of Diaz 'security detail, known as the Executive Protection Unit (EPU), found the birthday card a year earlier when they cleaned one of the official police vehicles from Diaz in the back of the passenger seat.

According to the OIG report, a forensic comparison of the Omni documents tests based in Chicago matched the letter on the map with samples of the handwriting tompkins. Omnis results received by Fox 13 Seattle show that a sample has been quoted at least ten times to achieve the game for the birthday card, much more than any other used in the analysis. It was an undated note with the name JT-K-1, which is:

“Thank you for saving the day – the usual (smiley face) – Jamie”

The OIG report says that JT-K-1 had a “thank you” from Tompkins to an officer in Diaz 'Epu Security Detail War-The also access to the vehicle in which the birthday card was found.

The OIG investigator considered whether the birthday card may have been planted in Diaz and Tompkins. The report excluded the security detail for the first time as a suspect because they were “recorded on the map for over a year instead of circulating to others”.

Instead, the investigator said the handwriting match “Thank you … Jamie” Note – it was enough proof that it was real. “It is unlikely that someone would have been able to make the card as proof of the damage from Mr. Diaz, since a manuscript analyst came to the conclusion that the manuscript was very likely Jamie Tompkins.”

Except what if another Jamie wrote it?

Tompkins is clear that the note did not come from her. “I did not write this anonymous birthday card two months before the boss's actual birthday and then planted it in a city vehicle that was driven by another employee. The whole thing makes no sense,” said Tompkins. “The first time that I heard of this note came from a lawyer who tried to find out: 'Where does this note come from?' I've never seen it before.

However, Tompkins said that a second forensic examination used verified examples. “We have a manuscript expert who is locally that has checked my actual manuscript via a dozen authenticated patterns,” said Tompkins. “We talk about federal documents, all sorts of things.”

The comparison was carried out by the certified document examiner Hanna Mcfarland, which was recognized as a manuscript expert for court halls in the northwest. She found that 'Jamie' wrote both documents that are central to the OIG examination, but McFarland does not believe Tompkins.

“It is my opinion that the person who wrote it [birthday card] The body of JT-K-1 “McFarland noticed.”[But] The combination of all differences between JT-K-1 and the copies of Jamie Tompkins provides considerable evidence that Tompkins probably did not write the body of JT-K-1. The degree of opinion “is probably the same as” more likely than not “.

McFarland's report said that the OIG analysis did not collect enough everyday examples of their letter to make a precise comparison for the first time. But Tompkins says the investigators had their chance when they searched their office without their knowledge. “I didn't care that they had swept my office,” said Tompkins. “I like my goodness, that would just solve everything. ' And you know that I have steno books, files, folders, post-it notes.

“Nothing that was ever made available would ever be enough evidence. I think I think [the investigators] Had a preferred narrative for it. “Tompkins said.” I mean, I can't speculate about who is involved. We have our ideas and I just can't talk about it at this time.[But] It certainly felt coordinated. ”

Tompkins continued to work on behalf of SPD to attract new civil servants, especially women. Their action-packed recruitment videos have completed messages of empowerment, opportunity and non-profit services in slick production values, which were borrowed from TV-COP dramas and supported Tompkins' years as TV news reporters.

“You know, I'm not wearing a brass badge or a weapon. I don't have these things. My brass comes in the form of Emmy Awards,” said Tompkins. “But I haven't received these awards because I am pretty. I got them for over 20 years because of the earnings of my work.”

Tompkins pushed back the suggestions that Diaz had ever given her special treatment, and although it was not a proven SPD chief “in several years, Tompkins pointed to similar roles that were filled by civilians in other law enforcement authorities.” There was already a news anchor who left her job on television and became chief of staff of the sheriff King County, “said Tompkins. She did it for a long time. Ironically, she is my mentor, and I thought it was funny that the story that was created was that I was somehow something special. “

But Tompkins also remembered something that another former news colleague told her: “He said: 'Jamie, listen, that has nothing to do with the facts and the truth. It is banous.

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