Federal Judge- Spokane\'s Handling of Former Police Chief\\\'s Discharge a Hot Mess

A federal judge on Friday called the handling by city officials of former Spokane police Chief Frank Straub’s dismissal in 2015 “a hot mess.”

“The city made a huge mess out of this whole thing,” Judge Jay Bybee said in a hearing in Seattle, addressing the attorney representing the city in the ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit brought by Straub. “There’s all kinds of misdirection and indirection here in the way that the city handled this.”

Straub’s attorney, Mary Schultz, continued the argument Friday that Straub had been defamed on his way out of office by the city..

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