A Good Start

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle's sheriff has fired a deputy for using "unnecessary force" against civilians during street protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in December, a spokesman on Thursday.

Dave Reichert, sheriff for King County which includes Seattle, fired deputy John Vanderwalker who was filmed spraying pepper gas at two women inside a car and kicking a woman kneeling on the ground as the riots unfolded. He had served as a deputy for 20 years.

"There were two incidents of unnecessary force," said the sheriff's spokesman Gregg Walker. "He wasn't able to convince the sheriff there was any good explanation for it."

Now, what about some criminal charges?