By Jennifer Sullivan, The Seattle Times
Pinned between his squad car and a fleeing suspect’s station wagon, Seattle police Officer Seth Dietrich broke department policy and holstered his gun.
Dietrich had stopped to buy coffee in North Seattle when he heard that fellow officers were chasing a domestic-disturbance suspect, Achilles Abella. He tried to help trap the suspect on a dead-end street. But Abella raced his car toward him.
“There was no way I could get out of his way,” Dietrich recalled last week.