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Walter Vernon Lawson: First Black Police Officer of the Seattle Police Department Promoted to Sergeant

Walter Vernon Lawson is recognized as the first African American police officer of the Seattle Police Department to be promoted to Sergeant in July 1964. He would go on to also become Seattle's first African American police Lieutenant (1967) and two years later the first African American police captain. Lawson attended Southern University and served […]

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