From [HERE] and [HERE] A Black man who claims he was retaliated against and charged with a crime after complaining to Seattle police of rough treatment by officers filed a $1.5 million claim against the city on Wednesday, just hours before the city attorney's office joined in a motion to vacate the conviction it had obtained against him.

Donald Fuller ran into trouble while walking in downtown Seattle on a Friday afternoon three years ago. "I was heading up to Steward Street," he said. "I was on my way to do some work for the homeless."

That's when he says two Seattle police officers called him over and said he could get a ticket. "And I said, 'Ticket? Ticket for what?' And he (the officer) said, 'Jaywalking,'" said Fuller. 

That was the beginning of a nightmare for Fuller and of a series of questionable actions by the Office of Professional Accountability -- the very office charged with protecting citizens from police misconduct. "I think the OPA is a sham," said James Egan, an attorney representing Fuller. "I think the OPA is a shill that actually protects officers."  Three years after Fuller was arrested, charged and convicted of obstruction, Egan has uncovered a web of documents that show Fuller never would have been charged if he had simply never complained.