Attorney Greg Skordas said Tuesday that Detective Jeff Payne would likely still be employed if body-camera footage hadn't generated widespread attention online. [More]Using that rationale, what crime could he not be held accountable for?
Or in the parlance of Scooby Doo:
And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling citizens!Ruh-ro.
[Via Florida Guy]
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So here's the issue I see (and mind you, I do not intend to apologize for the police): He seemingly has a point. You will notice at the end of the article there is a sentence stating that the incident caused the PD to change its policies.
Here's the rub: The former officer is suing because he believes (rightly or wrongly) that he was following departmental policy. He was an idiot in the manner in which he chose to follow that policy, but if he can demonstrate his compliance, he has a case.
It still stinks, but if you really want to fix this, then you need to go all the way up the chain of command and go after every senior-level officer (including non-PD politicians) who had a hand in formulating the policy in the first place. Firing ONLY low-level personnel does nothing.
"Attorney Greg Skordas said Tuesday that Detective Jeff Payne would likely still be employed if body-camera footage hadn't generated widespread attention online."
That statement by Skordas is undoubtedly accurate, but should be non-persuasive to any intelligent audience.
"If it wasn't for wide dissemination of evidence that my client has no business wearing a badge, he'd still be wearing a badge" is more an indictment of the system than a defense of his client.
It's only wrong if someone actually witnesses it. Otherwise, it just didn't happen.
No wonder they switch those dang things off so often...
What's funny is I see a nurse, obviously acting under orders, reading from a document that she claims is the formal blood draw agreement between the hospital and the police department. I'm not sure how he could think he was carrying out department policy while acting against the department's written policy.
And he'd been a paramedic with an ambulance company since 1983, they fired him before the PD did. I was thinking he was acting very irresponsibly towards the emergency medical community, then I was shocked to find out he was a member of the local emergency medical community.
Well, at least the incompetent Nazi oaf got fired. Too bad he couldn't be prosecuted for something. And the Kripos claim they don't understand why the Mundanes fear and disdtrust them.
_revjen45
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