[wideawake]

This does...

I quote from your own excerpt:

"The Department of Public Safety investigated the situation and cleared Gardner of any wrongdoing"

[woollyone]

Hhahahahaha...LMAO

Do a quick google search of Utah Department of Public Safety...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=utah+Department+of+Public+Safety

Search returns...
“Supports law enforcement and fire officials...”

How did you think they were gonna rule?
They support LEOs!

In other news the fox was asked to investigate the case of the missing chikens...
By your standards we should simply take the fox's word for it because after all, he's the expert.

[monday]

"The Department of Public Safety investigated the situation and cleared Gardner of any wrongdoing"

Means nothing. Cops being investigated by other cops are almost never found to be guilty of any wrong doing. Cops can shoot and kill completely innocent people out of sheer incompetence and stupidity and be cleared of any wrong doing by their fellow officers.

The fact that he was sent for training shows that someone recognized that he was in the wrong and a danger to the public. I would like to think it was one of his superiors, but I am guessing it was someone from the Utah Risk Management Fund which has to clean up the messes from idiots like officer Gardner.