Posted on 01/12/2009 9:56:16 PM PST by LuxMaker
Chattanooga Police Det. Kenneth Freeman will not face charges in an incident in which he shoved a 71-year-old greeter at the Wal-Mart in Collegedale to the floor after he tried to stop him while doing a receipts check.
Collegedale Police declined to bring charges, then the employee, Bill Walker, filled out a complaint himself. Collegedale Judge Kevin Wilson has reviewed the complaint and did not issue an assault charge.
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Since when is it a judges decision to bring charges?
It is my impression the people who become greeters really don’t have much of a choice.
Looks like this dick is going to cost some innocent insurance company some money. If not firing him outright, he may need to be demoted back to flatfoot.
And oh, one other thing, don't cowar behind your badge. Take your a$$ whooping like a REAL man.
Not that you know what one is.
Don’t worry about a thing. There’ll be an internal investigation and everything will be just honkey-dorry. You can trust your local police occifers to do the right thing.
NO human being deserves to be treated like that. I don't care what their "skill" level is.
This tough guy cop needs to be put in the hospital.
And when he's well enough to go home, be put back in.
Repeat as necessary.
To take a different tack on this:
I’ve never had the ‘joyous experience’ of walking out of a WalMart store and having that damn alarm go off, but I’ve certainly watched other people subjected to the routine of being forced to prove that you’re not a thief, right after you’ve already paid for the goods and just want to get to your car and get home.
Now — if and when it DOES ever happen to me, someone is going to be very sorry. And if some unfortunate ass actually tries to lay a hand on me, as this greeter did — well, all bets are off. I won’t like that one bit.
Yeah right. Have you ever known a cops wife, or former wife, who got an attitude adjustment from her cop husband, and then called the police?
Cops have an us vs them mentality, and take care of their own.
Walmart has a camera every five feet it seems. A cop pushing an older guy because he is above the distraction is my first take. He needs a lawyer to look deeper into it.
What a worthless POS this ‘police officer’ is. :-(
Can’t wait for the first civil rights lawsuit. With the way this guy’s acted here and in past incidents, it’s only a matter of time.
The greeter was a 71 year old woman and this is not the first time the cop has been involved in an assault while not on duty. He should be investigated by internal affairs and placed on leave until the investigation is completed. He sounds like a major jerk and should have been arrested. It is guys like him that make the good LEOs look bad.
This is a 71 year old man, probably making $7 an hour, just trying to do his job. It'll probably take all of 1-2 minutes of inconvenience, and your going to go off on this old guy? How about if its an old woman?
By the way, I noticed your name, WL-law. Are you a cop to.
I’ve known people who have abused anabolic steroids. They’re a real joy to hang around with :sarc. I’ve seen roid rage before and in person. These cops that we see going ape shit like this need urine tested for anabolic steroids first and foremost because that’s what this looks like to me. If they aren’t doping up, they clearly have control/power issues which make them unsuitable for duty. I actually sat in on a cops psychiatric evaluation/hearing once for something like this. He had done even worse than push a wal mart greeter and ended up involuntarily committed to a state psychiatric hospital. It was there where I watched him try to defend his behavior (and try to get out of his committment). It didn’t work. He got a fork stuck in him that day.
It was a 71 year old woman. Which is way worse. This cop is pathetic and I come from a family of LEOs. This guy should have been arrested and held until he was arraigned.
It is their job and it was a 71 year old woman, not a man. And if you go smacking a gretter in my presence, I will promptly lay you out. Bet on it.
Oooooo, what a big, masculine man you are. That’s it, fight those evil, oppressive Wal-Mart greeters!
OK, Mr. Tough Guy,you go right ahead and go berzerk when a frail, older man simply puts his hand on your asocial self to get your attention. Odds are good that you WILL be charged or some bystanders will come to the old guy’s defense.
The assault needs to be investigated. If any words relating to his position were uttered it becomes aggravated.
Det. FreeJerk needs an a$$-whoopin’. He behaved like Cynthia McKinney or any other deranged leftist in thinking the rules didn’t apply to him. It is good to see people stood up to him for what he did. I just wish someone would have been there to deliver to him the a$$-kickin’ he so richly deserved.
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