Following this incident, he was suspended for eight days without pay and OPA recommended that he receive a training referral for additional coaching on “tactics and decision-making regarding solo officer contacts.”
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He was last suspended after he deliberately broke the driver’s side window of a car parked at a gas station while the driver and a passenger were inside of the vehicle, according to an OPA case summary released in March. In his determination, SPD Chief Adrian Diaz also acknowledged Constantin’s history of disciplinary issues, including two prior suspensions. The investigation ultimately determined that Constantin violated SPD’s social media policy and engaged in unprofessional behavior and bias-based policing. He also expressed that he was “greatly impacted by the riots in 2020 and used social media to vent” and has since engaged in mental health treatment. In an interview with the Office of Police Accountability, Constantin reportedly admitted to posting the tweets on his personal account and expressed a high degree of remorse. The social media posts included content that celebrated violence against protestors, publicly accused SPD of hating its employees, blamed victims of assault and taunted family members of deceased individuals, according to the DAR report. In its disciplinary action report following the investigation, SPD said Constantin’s tweets were “extremely unprofessional, offensive, derogatory, and entirely unacceptable.” Constantin’s Twitter account has since been deactivated.
SPD launched the investigation after a Twitter user posted a lengthy thread last year that included screenshots of tweets posted by Officer Andrei Constantin, who used an anonymous Twitter account, in 20. A Seattle police officer was fired last month following an internal investigation that found he violated department policy by posting content to Twitter that caused “great harm to the Department’s relationship with the community.”
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