On a summer morning in 2003, the life of Patrick Martin Maher, a 46-year-old White male, was cut short in an act of violence that stemmed from a seemingly routine police action. A veteran of the United States Coast Guard and a dedicated police officer, Maher had served with the Honolulu Police Department for seven years before joining the Federal Way Police Department in Washington, where he had been for seven months.
On August 2, 2003, while on an unrelated assignment, Officer Maher spot
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