“My opinion, it looked like harassing a homeless person who I had seen there earlier charging their cellphone,” Peace said.Ī short time later, the officer got back in his car and left the parking lot, Peace said. That’s when Peace saw the car go into a convenience store parking lot and the officer talk to a homeless person. Peace said he ran across the street, near a crosswalk but not inside it. “Anytime I see unusual police activity in my neighborhood, I investigate,” Peace said, to be “a witness to any kind of police activity.” That’s when the car turned left suddenly, Peace said. Peace said he yelled at the passing car: “George Floyd didn’t deserve to die!” On Thursday night after hanging out with some friends at a bar, Peace began his walk north on Monroe Street toward his home.Īs Peace neared the intersection of Frederick and Monroe, a Spokane Police department squad car drove by heading north, he said. He spent his lunch break and time after work doing interviews with news outlets, including the Spokesman-Review.
The week of April 23 was busy and stressful for Peace, with speaking commitments and news of the conviction of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, for the murder of George Floyd.
Peace and the officer involved, Shawn Maguire, agreed to a mediation session with Police Ombudsman Bart Logue that Peace said left him feeling “honored as a human being,” despite the two men being unable to completely see eye to eye. “His stance, you know, was basically that it shouldn’t have happened.” “It was the chief that had those charges dropped,” Peace said. Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl pushed to have the charges dropped and opened an internal affairs investigation into the incident. So when Anwar Peace, a Spokane Human Rights Commissioner and police accountability activist, was arrested and booked into jail for the crime, it struck him as suspicious.īut Peace wasn’t the only one surprised he spent a night in jail for the misdemeanor. In fact, just 17 people had been cited for the misdemeanor this year, as of mid-June.
Jaywalking arrests aren’t common in the city of Spokane.
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