Posted on 06/02/2018 5:15:06 PM PDT by BBell
CLARKE COUNTY, Ga. - The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has fired an officer that was involved in an incident on Friday during a chase and arrest.
Officers Jerry Saulters and Steven Blackmon saw a suspect, Timmy Patmon near Vine Street and Nelli B Avenue. Patmon had felony warrants, according to an Athens-Clark County police spokesperson.
Officer Blackmon got out of the patrol car and started chasing Patmon when he started running, but Officer Saulters stayed in the car, police said.
Athens-Clarke County Police Department
9 hours ago
We are aware of a Facebook post regarding an incident that occurred on Friday afternoon, June 1st, during a foot pursuit and the subsequent arrest of a subject by our officers. There have been some concerns, brought to us by the community, over the actions of our officers during this incident.
Chief Freeman has initiated an internal affairs investigation, and the incident itself is being investigated by Georgia State Patrol. One officer has been placed on administrative leave while both the internal investigation and Georgia State Patrol investigation are underway.
We will be releasing the officers' body cam footage shortly.
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This has to be a record in the firing of a cop. Incident occurred yesterday (6/1) and the officer was fired today (6/2).
Maybe the local police were trying to avert a potential riot.
Most of the time when a department fires some one that fast they lose and the officer gets his job back.
Or the officer has a thick personnel file they don’t feel like defending.
Clean hit. But that’s not part of department procedure. He needs to leave the state.
Nelli b Avenue is not where you would want your college student daughter to live. There is in Athens, Ga. an absolutely huge community of low income racist bigot black people who commit crime on a frequent basis. And so yes, avoiding a riot is a theme of the local politicians. Also, with 32,000 college kids in the town, the concept of a riot by the Black Lives Matter crowd would be bad news for the Chamber of Commerce. Athens is designed to be a college town with no real industrial core. Just cooks, janitors, and store clerks. There is no reason for a college kid in Athens to drop out of school to get a great wage job in Athens because there are none. Not for a drop out that is.
Seems he was chasing the arrested person in his patrol car and
hit a stop sign. The chase continue and he then hit the accused.
Stuck two objects in the car chase.....
A Caucasian police officer in a vehicle hit a negro suspect on foot - yeah, potential riot in the ‘hood
I recently saw a YouTube video of a patrolman running his cruiser right over a woman who was fleeing after firing some rounds from a pistol. Looked like he parked it on her body. Cold. Don’t have the URL offhand.
Obviously, not many of them do much running on foot these days.
Here the video of the other incident that I mentioned.
Dashcam Shows Wanted Woman Get Run Over After Firing At Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqz4FYGRRbw
Potential scratches, scrapes and dents as well.
His partner can be seen pursuing the guy on foot.
He didn’t hit a baby buggy or a pet dog. Fleeing felon does not get my sympathy.
A car is as good a weapon as a gun.....the perp should not have tried to avoid arrest....too bad!!!
Cold? The female was shooting multiple rounds at the cops. I would call that a good, “Run over”.
Just based on the title, I don’t have a problem with that.
those videos are fake...there all white people getting killed or run over by the cops...we all know that never ever happens and only black people get shot at by the cops...
I wasn’t taking her side and will try putting the situation this way. The situation was brutal.
But what if the situation were exactly the same but with her husband or boyfriend instead of the cop?
Cop dealing with a bad attitude in a car stop.
Dash cam showing Missouri cop abusing teen, leading to four-year sentence for cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsNWNJG703Q
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