Through his many campaigns for office, Harrell has never mentioned the arrest. Harrell’s online biographies make no mention of living or working in Omaha.

Current Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell was arrested on weapons charges nearly three decades ago in Iowa. The charges were dropped, but the mayor has not spoken about the ordeal until recently. He believes he was racially profiled in the incident.

Long before he became the mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell was arrested after brandishing a firearm during an altercation in the parking lot of an Iowa casino. The arrest, which Harrell never publicly discussed before but came to light after multiple local media outlets reported on it Wednesday night,