The Washington sheriff said Christopher Burbank's hiring sparked strong community objections, including death threats to the deputy's family.
A former Tacoma police officer who was hired as a sheriff's deputy in a neighboring county — despite his involvement in the violent fatal arrest of Manuel Ellis in 2020 — has resigned his new job after just two days.Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders said in a written statement Wednesday that he failed to anticipate the community's strong objections to the hiring of Deputy Christopher Burbank, which Sanders said included death threats to Burbank's family.
'Like many law enforcement agencies nationwide, the Thurston County Sheriff's Office has struggled with understaffing; the Facebook post announcing the hire noted that Burbank would 'provide immediate relief in our patrol division.'The sheriff responded to criticism of the hire on Tuesday by saying Burbank had undergone a two-month background check, including a polygraph.
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