Posted on 12/12/2017 10:45:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Among the hundreds of changes in state law that might be considered in the Missouri Legislature next year is one that centers on a pizza gone bad.
It started with a Gasconade County man who was unhappy with the local police after he got pulled over by a cop for having a loud muffler.
It escalated when the police chief later stopped by his place of work to pick up a pizza for his kids.
Rep. Justin Alferman, R-Hermann, said the proposal he has introduced stems from the outcome of the December 2016 incident involving Hermann Police chief Marlon Walker and a cook at the local Casey’s General Store.
The cook on duty that night, Daniel Robinson of Hermann, decided to take out his frustration with an earlier traffic stop on Walker.
According to a store camera, Robinson was caught on video throwing toppings on the floor and then putting them on the pizza, as well as spitting on the pie before he placed it in the oven.
Walker only learned about the food tampering weeks later when the manager of the store told another Hermann police officer that one of his colleagues had been served the tainted pizza.
Robinson was eventually sentenced to serve five years of probation and barred from working in food service during that period. He also was sentenced to serve 15 days in the Crawford County Jail and given 100 hours of community service.
Alferman said he thinks the penalties should have been tougher.
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I believe that is against the law anywhere anytime. Police do not deserve special protections.
The guy got what he deserved. It’s absolutely disgusting to tamper with someone’s food.
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