Confirmed Rourke never read the label.
Confirmed no threat.
Confirmed Jordan’s hands were visible before the taser moved.
The written report created another problem.
Rourke described Jordan as “attempting to retreat toward the residence while refusing lawful instructions.”
Video showed Jordan already standing against the house.
He described the package as “unidentified property.”
The label remained visible throughout the encounter.
He wrote that he displayed the taser because Jordan’s “increasing agitation and positioning created an uncertain threat environment.”
Jordan’s voice on camera grew quieter, not louder.
Internal Affairs investigator Dana Kim wrote one question in the margin.
What observable behavior created the threat?
Rourke’s supervisor could not answer.
Then investigators pulled previous complaints.
Five appeared over six years.
Most had been treated separately.
One involved seventeen-year-old Black student Malik Carter, stopped while carrying newspaper bundles through a neighborhood at five-thirty in the morning.
A resident called about a suspicious teenager.
Malik explained his delivery route.
Rourke demanded identification.
The newspaper company confirmed employment.
Rourke still detained him for twenty-two more minutes because Malik appeared nervous.
The complaint was closed.
Another involved Luis Mendoza loading groceries into a car outside an apartment building.
The vehicle belonged to his wife.
Rourke asked for identification after a neighbor reported a suspicious Hispanic man near parked cars.
Luis showed registration.
The address matched.
Rourke continued questioning him because he became argumentative after asking why the stop had not ended.
Complaint closed.
A third involved twenty-year-old college student Aaliyah Grant.
She was standing outside her aunt’s garage waiting for the door code when somebody called police.
Aaliyah provided her aunt’s phone number.
The aunt confirmed everything.
Rourke handcuffed Aaliyah anyway because he said she appeared evasive before verification.
The department called the cuffs a reasonable temporary measure.
Complaint closed.
No supervisor had compared all three.
Different complaint numbers.
Different neighborhoods.
Different administrative categories.
Same rhythm.
Caller says somebody looks out of place.
Rourke arrives.
Person explains.
Facts reduce the original suspicion.
Rourke interprets questions or nervousness as a new reason to continue.
The stop becomes about attitude instead of the reason police arrived.
Dana Kim pulled Rourke’s discretionary-stop data.
The pattern alone did not prove racial bias.
It showed enough disparity to require examination.
Black and Latino residents made up roughly forty-one percent of the population in Rourke’s usual district.
They represented nearly seventy percent of his suspicious-person and low-level pedestrian contacts.
His searches found contraband less often than officers working comparable assignments.
His reports used the words aggressive, evasive, argumentative, furtive, and noncompliant far more frequently.
Dana reviewed body-camera footage.
Often the words did not match what cameras showed.
Argumentative meant asking why.
Evasive meant declining unrelated questions.
Aggressive meant raising a voice after twenty minutes.
Suspicious movement sometimes meant reaching for identification the officer himself requested.
The investigation stopped looking like one bad afternoon.
Sergeant Lena Ortiz faced questions too.
Not because she had done anything wrong on Alder Grove.