[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.

[wideawake]

Means nothing.

So you say, but it actually has legal weight - while your opinion doesn't.

[driftdiver]

“Cops being investigated by other cops are almost never found to be guilty of any wrong doing. “

You mean like that recent story of the cop who crossed the center line and killed two bicyclists? His fellow cops allowed him to leave the scene without testing him to see if he was drunk.