Adrian diaz gay
By Erica C. Barnett
Mayor Bruce Harrell has fired former Seattle police chief Adrian Diaz, citing a recently completed study by the city’s Office of Inspector General that create Diaz violated SPD policies by having an “improper… intimate relationship” with his chief of staff, Jamie Tompkins, lying about it, and failing to reveal the relationship.
Harrell removed Diaz as police chief in May, but he has remained on the city’s payroll; as of September, a database maintained by the city listed his salary as $338,560 a year.
Altogether, Harrell wrote in a letter he sent city officials on Tuesday morning, OIG found Diaz violated SPD policies on dishonesty, professionalism, avoiding or disclosing conflicts of interest, and improper personal relationships.
“Diaz made numerous statements denying that he engaged in an intimate or romantic relationship with [Tompkins],” Harrell wrote. “These statements were public statements and statements to the Mayor’s Office and SPD colleagues. Relying on the factual findings in the Report, these statements were false.”
According to Harrell’s letter, the investigation conc
Chief Diaz’s Letter to Seattle Pride Executive Board
June 22, 2022
Krystal Marx, Executive Director, Seattle Pride
Carmen Rivera, Board Member, Seattle Pride
Dear Krystal and Carmen,
The Seattle Pride Celebration draws thousands of people together to celebrate our region’s vibrant and thriving LGBTQIA+ community. Since 1994, the Seattle Police Department’s LGBTQIA+ sworn officers and civilian employees own proudly marched in the parade – in their SPD uniforms and insignia – to celebrate their personal and professional selves. They’ve marched, while acknowledging the pain the policing profession has inflicted on the LGBTQIA+ society in the past, and that all law enforcement can do better, including SPD.
However, earlier this month, the Executive Board of Seattle Pride announced, “Due to the history of Stonewall Sunday and the truth that Pride was birthed from a riot against police brutality, Seattle Lgbtq+ fest will not enable police uniforms, police vehicles, any police insignia, or police propaganda to trek in any celebration contingency.”
The Executive Board’s decision, described as “discriminatory, demeaning, hateful and antiquated
‘I am a gay Latino man,’ says former Seattle Chief Adrian Diaz after stepping down
Adrian Diaz, until last month Seattle’s police chief, disclosed that he is gay in an emotional and wide-ranging interview with KTTH/MyNorthwest on Monday.
The surprise announcement comes just three weeks after Diaz, a 27-year veteran of the department, was demoted by Mayor Bruce Harrell to a “special projects” role. Diaz stepped down after a year of departmental turmoil, in which seven officers named Diaz in lawsuits, saying the former chief discriminated against women and people of color. One female cop accused Diaz himself of “predatory behavior” and “grooming,” which Diaz has denied.
“You recognize, it’s absurd, and I haven’t had the opportunity to be able to tell my story,” an emotional Diaz told KTTH’s Jason Rantz. “It’s a story I’ve struggled with over the last four years that I’m a gay Latino man.”
Diaz became interim police chief in 2020, after the civil rights protests on Capitol Hill in Seattle. He became the permanent principal two years later, in January 2023. Soon after, his widespread relations troubles began, as rumors began swirling that he had hired an alleged girlfriend to be a top advis
'Beauty and the chief.' How a secret romance ended former Seattle Police Main person Diaz's career
Chief Adrian Diaz, wearing a black cowboy hat, beamed from atop a blue roan horse named Blucher. He was at the Seattle police barn, being interviewed by a TV journalist.
“You study a lotta lessons on a horse?” asked the journalist, Jamie Tompkins of FOX 13 in Seattle.
“You learn a lotta lessons,” Diaz said. “They’re always trying to search for peace.”
In the two years since that interview, there has been little calm for Diaz.
Friendship blossomed between Diaz and Tompkins on that late summer daytime back in 2022, which developed into a love affair, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the Office of Inspector General. Ten months after that horseback interview, he hired Tompkins be his principal of staff, a position he created, at a salary of $163,900. Diaz did not post the job or interview other candidates.
Once an up-and-comer at Seattle Police, Diaz, appointed by Mayor Bruce Harrell, would soon fall from grace. It began with a rumor that Tompkins was his paramour, which Diaz dismissed as tawdry gossip, a conspiracy ginned up by his detractors.
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