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Posted on 09/10/2009 6:09:59 PM PDT by ellery
In 2007, Shreveport police officer Wiley Willis arrested 38-year-old Angela Garbarino on suspicion of drunken driving. While in custody, as captured on the video below, Garbarino began arguing with Willis about what she said was her right to make a phone call. About a minute later, Willis walked over and turned off the video camera. When the camera returns back on, Garbarino was lying on the floor in a pool of her own blood. She was later photographed with severe facial injuries that looked to have come from a beating. Willis’ attorney stated that she tripped and fell while the camera was off. After the video went viral, Willis was fired, but never criminally charged.
Last month, the Shreveport Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board voted to reinstate Willis on the police force. He’ll get full back pay and benefits for the year-and-a-half he was fired. The reason? During the internal investigation of Willis, a polygraph machine operator failed to record the results of his Q&A with Willis. This apparently is a violation of Louisiana’s “Police Officer’s Bill of Rights,” a set of guidelines every department must follow when investigating officer misconduct.
Garbarino won a $400,000 settlement from the city of Shreveport last year.
You're supposed to think that unions have crossed the line. Unions no longer serve their original purpose. They have become the bullies.
This guy is a liability. See post 18.
The message is crystal clear: cops are above the laws
No. They aren't. You are painting with a pretty wide brush. Again, there are bad apples. But there are bad apples in any group. Are all doctors butchers because some are? Are all mechanics cheats because some are?
If you think you’re going to affect change with a scalpel nowadays...well, it ain’t happening.
CYA is the order of the day.
It’s the big brush or they get away with it, unfortunately.
Our leaders need to be reminded of what principles are and there awesome effect on our lives.
They want to refer to themselves as “The Force” and that is exactly how I am approaching them.
Whatever.
Nice tag line.
>>>The thugs with badges know they’re untouchable.
No, didn’t you read your own story? “This apparently is a violation of Louisiana’s “Police Officer’s Bill of Rights,” a set of guidelines every department must follow”.” The investigation was tainted by failure to follow procedure.
I’ve been here before. As the most junior lawyer in my circuit I was once stuck with the task of appointment as president of our county Deputy Sheriff’s Civil Service Board.
During my term the sheriff fired for cause one particular deputy, who as a matter of course appealed this decision to our review. The sheriff so badly bungled his case justifying the termination we had to reinstate the deputy, who we knew darn well was unfit to serve. But had we not done so, the Circuit Court would have heard the case and would have followed the law and reinstated. Then come after us as to why we didn’t follow the law and clear this matter before it needlessly took court time.
Soon after the sheriff again found cause to fire this deputy, and again he appealed the firing, and again the sheriff’s case was so incompetently prepared and presented we again had no option but to reinstate. The sheriff and the department were trying to do the right thing, but were generally clueless. Our hands were tied.
This sounds like a similar situation, so don’t go off on unions this once.
Even that won't work unless the victim is some other sort of union thug or politician and it is caught on video by 35 bystanders.
I did read my own story. I also know that police departments sometimes deliberately bungle their own procedures in order to get a fellow officer off. That happened recently here in Pittsburgh — a drunk off-duty officer pistol-whipped and shot a random person walking down the sidewalk. He ended up getting off based on a variety of technicalities — for example, the police department conveniently didn’t test him for alcohol until four or five hours after the event, so it was deemed to be inadmissible.
I see your point, though — it might have been rank stupidity/corruption in the department in this case. My overall statement is still correct, I think — the thugs know they’re untouchable, and the system is rotten all the way around.
You just described circumstances where you were derelict in your duty to society..........twice.........with the same thug.
Shame on you.
Oh, no. I didn’t see that story, and I’m glad I didn’t. That’s vile — I used to think it was mostly a joke that some of these guys delight in killing people’s pets. :( And they get away with it.
But the problem goes beyond some bad apples. Mechanics don't have a whole system in place to protect cheating fellow mechanics. Doctors don't have an organized, us-against-them "brotherhood" that supports and protects butchering fellow doctors and punishes whistle blowers.
Neither group gets to police itself with little to no outside oversight or accountability. And neither profession has the latitude to legally kill fellow citizens under color of the law.
Yes, there are good cops out there -- I've encountered them myself. But if you're a cop who stays silent while watching bad cops operate, that makes you a bad cop too.
Willis' back pay would exceed $50,000
Aug 20, 2009 11:15 AM
The city of Shreveport is preparing to appeal the police civil service board's decision to reinstate Wiley Willis, the former police officer who was with Angie Garbarino the night she was injured while in police custody.
Willis' reinstatement would be with back pay to his firing in February 2008. Exact figures have not been calculated, but police officials have estimated it will be more than $50,000.
A letter of notice to the Municipal Police and Fire Civil Service Board would be a prelude to an appeal to Caddo District Court asking a judge there to overturn the reinstatement by the panel of civilians, police officers and firefighters.
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http://www.ktbs.com/news/willis-back-pay-would-exceed-50000
I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Acted “stupidly”....;o)
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Teacher or Cop - LOWEST common denominator!
I just stumbled across these videos and it made me think of this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=police+brutality&search_type=&aq=2&oq=police
Pigs are great, we’ve got nothing to worry about. Just don’t catch them too far between doughnuts, or on a bad day.
This one says it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcYOOc2LqzA
Does anyone wonder anymore why cops are hated by an increasing percentage of the population?
Wiley should ask his parents why they left the extra "L" out of his name.
Cop was a typical inbred cousin!
Wiley should ask his parents why they left the extra "L" out of his name.
Cop was a typical inbred cousin!
and...the cops wife is a fat slug
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