County to pay $75K for tackle, arrest of Black nursing assistant
EDMONDS — It started with jaywalking, an offense a sheriff’s office investigator would later call “the most minor pedestrian traffic infraction.”
What followed for Sharon Wilson, then 25, was a tackle by a sheriff’s deputy, a traumatizing night in jail, a public uproar and a civil claim against Snohomish County that ended in a $75,000 settlement this month.
In March, Wilson, who is Black, sued the sheriff’s office in federal court, claiming she was running to catch the bus after a shift as a certified nursing assistant when sheriff’s deputy Matt Lease tackled her for no reason three years prior.
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In May 2020, a group of four local attorneys behind a recall effort cited the Wilson episode as an example of Fortney’s mismanagement of the sheriff’s office. They argued he needed to authorize an internal inquiry following Bible’s post.
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