Sheriff's office fires deputy in Ft. Sanders party incident

Pretty sure Jarod Dotson has a case against both the officer and the sheriffs department.

Hope the student guy sues the hell out of the department.

Good for them to react so quickly.

Then the police union steps in, go through some arbitration and show for the media. Then after the heat is off they give the cop back his job. Hell we even had the head of the police union pull his gun on a lady in a road rage confrontation. He lost his cushy job but not his badge. 5 bucks says this ain't the end of it. Another says he won't be punished.

And retraining.



The speed at which he was dealt with is surprising.

Plus medical pay for the stress.

...I'd expect that these UT frat boys' parents are well-heeled and connected. The UT cops are there to protect the University's rep, first. Because they're mindful about their ''important alumni'' relations in those parts. Sometimes that mean ''protecting'' these affluent pranksters from themselves. But the college coppers couldn't handle this party and so they called in some Real Police© whom, as we saw, don't have as much sophistication and aplomb and tend toward the strangle-hold for solving most problems first, and then they let God sort everything out later.

- IMHO, that's why this ''peace officer'' got canned so fast.

But what you describe is exactly the type of thing that turns people against unions.

Public sector unions operate under state laws.

In the private sector, union members that have been suspended or terminated might get all, some or none of their pay back if they return to work. Depending on the outcome of the grievance procedure. I am unaware of any union that operates in the private sector that has provisions for suspension with pay. In my experience a member that is suspended is for a period of usually the remainder and 2 days (3 days) that follows the steps like a written warning. It gets progressively worse up to 30 days which generally doesn't happen. And then they return to work. Usually without lost wages. Back pay might be recovered in termination cases depending on the outcome of the grievance procedure or at the worse the employee is allowed to return to work without back pay. If they are allowed to return there may be stipulations that must be followed for a period of time that could last as long as 2 to 3 years.

Even within the public sector for each state there may be differences in grievance procedures for their unions.

will pour into this thread to issue their retraction...

...looks like a good candidate to press some license plates!

Quoting from the article,

"I feel like they just used excessive force, DOGS TAZING PEOPLE, there's no point in that."

That's some mighty fine writing there!

Imagine if cats get hold of them. . . .

I wonder if any disciplinary action would have happened at this point? A sad fact of American life: "Tough on crime" leads to scooping innocent people up for no good reason, because race.

... But good on this Sheriff for acting quickly in this case.