Seattle cop got preferential treatment in prostitution arrest
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By Lewis Kamb / The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — Late on a Wednesday last November, a middle-aged man in an Audi sport-utility vehicle pulled into a lot off Aurora Avenue North and allegedly agreed to pay $40 for sex to a police decoy posing as a prostitute.
The undercover cop silently gave a signal, and a team of Seattle police officers watching from nearby swooped in. They soon realized their vice sting had netted one of their own: an out-of-uniform Seattle police captain named Randal Woolery, who lives in Monroe.
Police body-camera videos of Woolery’s arrest that night show that after officers handcuffed him and read him his rights, he turned to a supervising officer and asked: “May I talk to the sergeant?”
Sgt. Jeffrey Page took Woolery away from the other officers, and with the sergeant’s body camera still recording, Woolery told him: “I’m going through a divorce.”
“OK, brother,” Page responded. “I’ll try to make this as … painless as possible.”
Moments later, Page shut off his body camera and stopped recording the arrest — a violation of department policy. His action would be the first in a series of apparent breaks given to Woolery that night.
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