Elijah Slade
Complainant alleged Corporal Fiske called him a "bitch" and "fuck" during transport, applied handcuffs so tightly he was injured, and arrested him on charges the judge ultimately would not file.
- Corporal Brandon Fiske
- Corporal Alex Michael (backup)
What the file shows
Slade — one of the only Black complainants in the 2018 OPS file — phoned LSPD on May 3, 2018 to report that off-duty conduct and the post-arrest transport on May 2 had been demeaning and racially charged. He said the cuffs left a visible red scrape across his left wrist, Fiske mocked him with profanity throughout the ride to Snohomish County Jail, and the prosecutor declined to file the felony assault-of-a-child charge Fiske had referred.
Chief Beazizo's running sheet shows he placed a single phone call to the complainant on May 4, 2018 and called the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office to confirm the charge had not in fact been outright dismissed (the defendant was PR-released pending more information). Beazizo did not interview Fiske, did not interview the citizen witnesses Amber Jacobs and Brianna Ames (Black, 16), and did not pull the booking photographs of Slade's wrist.
When Slade did not come back into the station that evening to fill out a written complaint, Beazizo closed the file on May 22, 2018 as "Unfounded — Complaint Rejected." The single allegation logged is "Unsatisfactory Job Performance" — the racial-bias allegation Slade verbalized never appears as a Bias-Based Policing classification on the file.
Why this file matters
This is one of the seven racial / bias-based complaints documented in the IAPro forensic record that LSPD nonetheless certified to WASPC as zero racial investigations for 2018–2019. Closing on the basis that the complainant "did not return" — when he had already given a recorded verbal statement and named photographic evidence — is the same pattern that recurs across the McCorkel, Tania Angel, and Edwards files.