Mealey's (November 13, 2019, 12:15 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A police expert is sufficiently qualified to opine that an officer who alleged beat and kicked an unarmed theft suspect should never have been hired as a policeman and that the county that hired him failed to conduct a proper background investigation, a Washington federal magistrate judge decided Nov. 12 (Robert John Preston v. Ryan Boyer, et al., No. 2:16-cv-1106, W.D. Wash., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 196004)....