Posted on 3/25/2006, 4:15:49 AM by ncountylee
FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth police officer has been fired after he was unknowingly captured on his patrol car’s video and audio recorder using obscene language and racial slurs, racing another officer and neglecting his duties to tend to personal business, according to documents obtained by the Star-Telegram on Friday.
Officer Trini Feggett, who was with the department two years, was indefinitely suspended effective March 10, according to a letter filed with the Civil Service Commission last week by Police Chief Ralph Mendoza.
Feggett has appealed.
His attorney, Richard Carter, of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, said his client is a “very likeable individual” who should not be judged before his administrative hearing.
Carter said the alleged violations for which Feggett was fired do not represent his abilities and how he performed his duties.
“Few, if any, law enforcement officers are perfect, and just about all of them have a bad day occasionally,” Carter said in a written statement to the Star-Telegram. “At Officer Feggett’s appeal hearing, he will welcome the opportunity to answer why all of his ‘bad days’ appear to have occurred in one tour of duty.”
The tape was made during 3½ hours late Sept. 16 and early Sept. 17.
Spokesman Lt. Dean Sullivan said officers found out about the tape when an officer who used the same patrol car after Feggett’s shift alerted his supervisors that the recorder had apparently malfunctioned during a pursuit.
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Read the details. This guy did everything but work.
I hate it when I read accounts like this. These type give the whole profession a bad name.
Oh, yeah...he's real sorry...sorry he got caught!
And because he's black, I wonder when (not 'if') the race card will be whipped out?
Just goes to show ya, don't hire Feggetts.
You can't make this stuff up....pity the poor clown that's been pulled over, and is trying to simply address the cop by name, "Yes, Occifer Fegget"
(Blap, blap, slap, slap, cuffed)
Everyone has done something they wouldn't like the public to see, but it sounds like this one was doing it all the time.
Did you read the article???
Twice.
At least he didnt stop by the donut shop.
Yeah, right. If I called somebody a ni@@er, I'd be ostracized. What's the issue with the nefarious N-word....they can use it and I can't?
I hate it when there isn't a link to the video!
Sounds like that video would be pretty interesting to see.
sounds like he deserves to be canned
It was:
“Later, while leaving the parking lot of a restaurant in the 2700 block of East Lancaster Avenue, Feggett challenged officer A.M. Colter to a race. A traffic investigator later estimated Feggett’s top speed during the race at 102 mph, the letter states”
LOL, 102 is nothing.
Bet that this was a normal day for this guy. He spent his time posing and being the big man, scamming the system.
His grandfather was a famous NYC cop by the name of Feggett Aboutit.
I know what you mean, but this guy was so bad, I can't imagine that there could be another LE in the country that would be that bad. He just has to be one of a kind, makes you wonder how he managed to get hired, probably related to some official.
Huh? How he acted on duty had nothing to do with how he performed his duties?
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