Gabe Galanda is quoted by The Washington Post in, “Police can’t decorate gear after they wore Blue Lives flags and killed Black man,” regarding the settlement obtained by the family of Timothy Green.
As reported:
The officer who fatally shot Timothy Green near a Washington state coffee shop wore gloves with a Blue Lives Matter emblem while attempting to treat his wounds. The on-scene commander had adorned his department-issued laptop with a badge showing a coiled rattlesnake and a mantra often understood by extremism researchers to represent right-wing, anti-government ideology.
Now, according to a settlement finalized last week between the city of Olympia, Wash., and the family of Green, a Black man who was having a psychotic episode when he was killed in 2022, Olympia police must stop personalizing city equipment. The city must also pay Green’s family $600,000.
As to the Blue Lives Matter emblems and anti-government badge displayed by Olympia police officer when Timothy was killed, Gabe is quoted as follows:
“This is not unique to the city of Olympia — this is happening countrywide,” said Gabe Galanda, one of the Green family’s attorneys. “Whatever law enforcement is doing, they have to be above partisanship or political ideology.”
Gabe Galanda is an Indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Native American Law and Gaming Law from 2007 to 2024, and dubbed a Super Lawyer by his peers from 2013 to 2024.
