Posted on 12/24/2007 9:47:52 AM PST by ninonitti
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino says the Boston police lieutenant who is serving 18 months court-ordered probation for punching his girlfriend off a Baltimore barstool is a “coward.”
“(Police Commissioner Edward) Davis has assured the mayor that he will do everything in his power to hold this coward accountable for his actions,” said Menino’s spokeswoman, Dot Joyce. “Domestic violence is a huge problem in our society. No one should be able to get away with raising a hand to anyone, especially a defenseless woman.”
Lt. David Murphy was suspended for 30 days on Dec. 19 but will only serve five of those days under an agreement worked out with the department. He is expected to return to work this week. He has been on paid leave since his April arrest in Baltimore for second-degree assault. A Maryland judge found him guilty and issued a probation before judgment order against Murphy.
“Murphy will have a criminal record but not a criminal conviction at the end of his probation term,” said Margaret T. Burns, director of communications with the Baltimore city state’s attorney’s office.
“The guilty finding will not stand after his successful completion of the probation.”
Davis said the department could fire Murphy without a conviction, but city lawyers told him they would undoubtedly lose the case at a civil service appeal and would be forced to write a check for missed pay, including details.
That's what I see as the real story here: who's the coward?
The cop or the mayor and commissioner who can't sack up to can him??
It comes under the cops can do no wrong and are not ever to be held accountable for their actions rule. I'm sure the jackboot lickers will explain it to you when they show up.
Brave new world, cops just love fellow wife beating cops.
Why did he do it? Is she still with him?
Boston won, so I guess it wasn't all that bad for him. Plus he got to smack the spit out of the ho for gving him lip, so to speak.
Union protects their own. Hard to fire civil service guys.
Can’t he at least be demoted. Seems to me the “hub” could use a proven woman beater for pounding the beat in Roxbury.
Another reason to despise unions. Is there a unions suck ping list?
“(Since her life was not in imminent danger by getting punched off of a barstool, she has no self-deefnse claim.)”
A great difference in physical size and ability between men and women can stand as justification for her using a gun.
But even absent that i’d say a sudden, vicious punch is justification for ANYONE drawing and fireing even.
This POS made 169K last year on a 68K salary. He is probably connected to the right people. I doubt there is that much need for OT for a Lt.. I thought rank in most places were on professional contracts not hourly?
It's called Paid Police Details in Massachusetts, shorthand for organized extortion by the police.
Anyone doing road construction has to hire an off-duty cop at about $40 an hour to "oversee" the worksite, direct traffic, sleep in "his" cruiser etc.
This along with paid court appearances (read arrest incentive program)helps some cops top 200k a year.
And the jackboot lickers (and occasional jbt) that post here wonder why the police are frequently bashed on the forum.
There would be, but the boss "don't like no questions ax'ed" and threatened to strike if anti-union posts went up.
That was *their* story. Police get into stressful situations and some of them take their stress out on their wives.
A lot of these guys score women because of the uniform. They make bad choices and wind up with women that are nothing to write home about.
And that’s before you even get to the cops’ bs......
Likewise with the women who marry uniforms without understanding that what they are doing is acting out unconscious scripts - some wake up and some like Murphy's girlfriend stay under the ether.
These guys have high rates of drug and alcohol abuse, they become emotionally shut down and hard. They also see the worst that society has to offer and it rubs off on them.
Still, Chicks dig the uniform.
Misogynist Masshole in Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I suppose that after excusing the one free punch, she does have a self-defense claim if he proceeds to batter her with her barstool?
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