Assistant Chief Derek Kammerzell told investigators that he did not understand that what he posted on his door was a Nazi insignia — a rank used by SS officers. But the investigation report ...

was investigated and disciplined after he taped the insignia of an SS officer ... signifying the rank of Obergruppenführer, a high-ranking SS officer, to his office door in September 2020 ...

The SS murdered more than six million European Jews. Aside from their rank insignia, SS officers also often wore “totenkopf” — skull and crossbones — pins on their black uniform collars.

A suburban Seattle city will pay more than $1.5 million to settle a dispute with a former assistant police chief who was disciplined for posting a Nazi rank insignia on his office door and joking ...

embraced the rank of an officer in Adolf Hitler’s murderous Schutzstaffel, or SS, and joked about the Holocaust. The admission came as Ralph and police Chief Rafael Padilla issued a somber ...

After facing public backlash for the way an assistant police chief was disciplined after displaying Nazi insignia on his office door, the city of Kent has agreed to pay that same employee a ...

The tattoo bears the name of his fellow sniper Claudio Patino IV, “who was killed by my side” in Afghanistan in 2010. A Seattle police officer wears a "mourning band" for fallen officers over ...