“Jon started with the Enumclaw Police Department in May of 1988. He was promoted to Patrol Sergeant in September of 1998. He will have 32 years and 11 months of service when he retires, making him the longest standing PD employee and the 3rd most senior employee in the entire city” (Feb. 25, 2020, https://nextdoor.com/agency-post/wa/enumclaw/enumclaw-police-department/long-time-enumclaw-pd-sergeant-jon-buss-set-to-retire-138728301/).

“The biggest reason I voted for Trump was the southern border…. A+ for Trump.” (“I rank Trump’s first year a success,” published Jan. 14).

Jon Buss has written a shocking public letter to readers of the Courier-Herald. I have a few questions I would like to ask Jon publicly. I hope he will share his response in another public letter, so that everyone who has read his other letter can see it.

Your unqualified praise for federal immigration enforcement was published one week after a masked federal police officer was filmed killing a woman in Minneapolis. Ten days after your letter was published, a squad of masked federal police officers were witnessed holding a man down, shooting him in the back “so many times,” and counting his bullet holes.

Are you a retired cop who policed Enumclaw for over three decades? Did you give your above-perfect letter grade to federal immigration enforcement before, or after you learned learned about the killing on Jan. 7, 2026? What grade will you give federal immigration enforcement in light of the following eyewitness accounts of the killing on Jan. 24, 2026?

Tincher v. Noem, 0:25-cv-04669, (D. Minnesota Jan 24, 2026) ECF No. 107

Tincher v. Noem, 0:25-cv-04669, (D. Minnesota Jan 24, 2026) ECF No. 109

Nancy Butler

Enumclaw