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Posted on 05/07/2012 8:40:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog
IT’S USUALLY TOUGH to get kicked out of Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police.
You really have to screw up.
Worse than, say, the cop who allegedly beat his girlfriend with a closed fist and left her a voice mail threatening to “stomp your f---ing heart out.” Or the officer convicted of child endangerment for pointing a loaded Glock at a kid who changed the radio station in his truck at the Police Academy.
Or the cop who allegedly forced a suspect to perform oral sex on him in his police cruiser.
The local FOP, which represents about 14,600 current and retired officers, went to bat for all three of those guys in arbitration hearings. In recent years, the union also has stood by cops accused or convicted of other transgressions, including drunken driving, assault, sleeping on the job and lying during a police investigation.
But not Ray Lewis.
The retired Philadelphia police captain committed an act so heinous, so unforgivable in the eyes of the FOP, that union president John McNesby filed a rare grievance that could result in Lewis being permanently expelled from the FOP and stripped of union benefits such as life insurance and free legal assistance.
“It’s quite unusual. We had to dig into the books to see what we could do and couldn’t do,” said FOP pension director Henry Vannelli, who made the motion to refer Lewis’ case to the union’s grievance committee. “We don’t want that guy around.”
Lewis’ inexcusable offense?
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.philly.com ...
Not surprising .... Philly = SF East.
Let’s see, he wore his uniform to show suppoet for OWS scum at Zucotti and then wore it again to show support on May 1, the big day of celebration, for the worldwide commie movement/occupy Philly-sounds to me like the FOP is on the right page.
Yeah, I know he has freedom of speech, but I’m siding with the union thugs on this one.
Yeah. I would have thought a public censure and a cease and desist, or something, would do for this fellow. To be an Occucop looks weird, but it’s not doing something wrong on the order of these other things the union was stubborn about.
I’m inclined to believe that someone who can retire after 24 years on a public pension, full health insurance, free legal representation...is himself the 1%.
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