Posted on 08/07/2010 5:26:48 PM PDT by B-Chan
Diboll police officer Grant Jones has resigned amid a flurry of debate surrounding a controversial traffic stop last week.
Jones gave his formal resignation Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. "His resignation was short, and to the point," according to Diboll City Manager Dennis McDuffie.
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Upon hearing of Jones' resignation, [victim] Johnny Hodge said it's good that Jones realized he was wrong and stepped down from his position. The city attorney for Diboll has promised to release the Diboll Police dash cam video on Wednesday.
The stop in question occurred on July 27 as Tracey Lott was driving his friend, Johnny Hodge, to a hospital when he was pursued by Diboll Police into Lufkin city limits. Lott pulled over at the intersection of U.S. 59 and College Street, where Jones used his pistol to shatter the windshield.
Lufkin Police was called as backup and their police dash cam video shows Officer Jones holding the driver, Tracey Lott, in his custody for about 30 minutes.
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McDuffie said Jones' resignation followed an internal investigation into a traffic stop where Jones detained an elderly man during a medical emergency. He said the internal investigation found while Officer Jones did many things right during that traffic stop, "some procedures were not properly followed."
A Diboll police officer... berating a driver who was rushing his 73-year-old passenger to a hospital.
Protectin'!
Officer Grant Jones...with his gun drawn, breaking the driver's side window and hauling out Lott.
Servin'!
Hodge can be heard saying "I have a doctor waiting on me." Jones replies, "It don't make no difference"
Protectin'!
"just because you got a medical problem, don't think you can come out here on the highway and do whatever you want to do. When you get to the hospital you're going to have a pair of handcuffs waiting on you."
Servin'!
Have fun applying for unemployment, Officer Fatface McDouchebag.
PS - Diboll is deep, deep behind the Pine Curtain in East Texas, a place crawling with inbred, gun-toting maniac cops like ol' Officer Lardass McPistolwhip, above. This story represents just one of the 100,101 Reasons Not To Go To East Texas For Any Reason Ever.
Just another one of the 3,240 “Isolated incidents” that have occurred since january 1 of this year...
Just another of the 4,000 plus bad apples that were discovered since January 1 of this year...
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?page_id=2793
Is it better to get to West Texas via Oklahoma panhandle?
I don’t believe this story. I mean the offending officer never gets fired.
That old guy musta been connected.
An asinine occifer. Ought to have offered to call an ambulance to the spot, at the least. If that would take too long then should have provided sirens/lights escort to the car to the hospital.
The occifer didn’t get FIRED — he QUIT. Maybe there are some more good ole boys down the road with another job for him.
Nothing is more important than his badge!!
Diboll is deep, deep behind the Pine Curtain in East Texas, a place crawling with inbred, gun-toting maniac cops like ol' Officer Lardass McPistolwhip, above. This story represents just one of the 100,101 Reasons Not To Go To East Texas For Any Reason Ever.
Don't go to east Texas huh?
No worries...lol
PROTIP: Stay on I-20. Drive at the maximum legal speed. Roll up all windows and lock all doors. Scrape off any college window decals, Knights of Columbus stickers, or any other items on your car that might indicate literacy, intelligence, or membership in a non-Evangelical church. If possible, male drivers should have hockey hair and/or a “molester/cop”-type mustache. Stay in the left lane and don’t ack lahk yer better’n’ anybody else.
Do not stop until you get to US 75 in Dallas.
If you have out-of-state tags, if you drive a Volvo, or if you “look diffurnt” or “talk funny”, go via Oklahoma.
Thanks for that link. That website has a ton of information.
Not all cops are bad, but for too many of them, the universe revolves around their own egos.
No group of people is “all bad”. Certain groups, however, are attractive to bad people. The typical U.S. municipal police department, as curently construed, is such a group.
The words of a pseudo-Texan who's plumb eat up with the dumb@$$...
Comin’ to a town near you!
They going after Catholics? Shame, shame, shame on them if they call themselves Christians.
And I say that as quite definitely a fundie.
East Texas is a wasteland. I know — I lived there for fifteen endless years. Casse-toi, beauf plumer-banjo.
They don’t so much “go after” Catholics as they assume that only Mexicans are Catholic.
They don’t so much “go after” Catholics as they assume that only Mexicans are Catholic.
Yikes. Perot country.
Yep. Like every other person with any dreams or ambition, HRP got the f-— out of Texarkana and never looked back.
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