When seconds count, 911 could just hang up.
Posted on 04/18/2018 4:10:39 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
A former 911 operator has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation for hanging up on emergency calls.
According to authorities, 44-year-old Crenshanda Williams systematically hung up on citizens trying to report emergencies.
A jury found her guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls.
"The citizens of Harris County rely on 911 operators to dispatch help in their time of need," Assistant District Attorney Lauren Reeder said in a statement. "When a public servant betrays the community's trust and breaks the law, we have a responsibility to hold them criminally accountable."
In 2016, Jim Moten said he called 911 after witnessing two vehicles speeding down Highway 45 and seconds into his call, it dropped, or so he thought.
"Come to find out I was hung up on," he said.
Court documents said Williams was the 911 operator that took Moten's call. The documents said before he could finish explaining she hung up and said, "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real."
"If someone calls in to report an incident whether the person feels this is an emergency or not you should have time for it," he said.
Charging documents said she had an abnormally large number of "short calls" no more than 20 seconds.
"This is a person that probably doesn't need this job," Moten told ABC13.
Documents also stated, "thousands of short calls have been attributed to the defendant from October 2015 through March 2016."
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When seconds count, 911 could just hang up.
Countdown to lawsuit doe racial discrimination from NAALCP/BLM/Al Sharpton in 5...4...3...2
“I ain’t got time for this.”
Another reason why you need to defend yourself.
“I’s be privileged and you ain’t, cracker!”
Hateful piece of garbage.
“Crenshanda”.
SMH
Of course hey I wonder if she hung up on any black people...
I wonder if...
She now has time.
While we can probably safely assume she’s also been fired, a real reporter would have divulged to us her current job status.
Listen fool, ..... Did you know I was on my break?
Best I remain speechless...For me, there is no room for civil discourse on this article...
Like that kid who died because some 911 operator couldn’t be bothered; twice. Then the city council guy said something that no amount of money would make you happy whereupon a relative said ‘You have crossed the line’
I'm sure she was convinced she was ENTITLED to it, though. She was probably p!ssed when she found out she was actually expected to WORK at it.
The number of Crenshanda’s short calls finally reached a crescendo.
Crenshanda
Not to forget the McDonald's food order being screwed up.
“Another reason why you need to defend yourself.”
Oh yes. Ohhhh YES indeed.
Who would have ever thought of this as a real world example? But there it is.
You can bet I’m going to put this in my ‘defending my right to bear arms’ file for future use.
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