Posted on 11/20/2012 1:00:56 PM PST by FreedomPoster
CANTON —
Fired police officer Daniel Harless could get his job back if he gets medical clearance to return to work.
An arbitrator hearing Harless’ appeal ruled in the former patrolman’s favor. The 15-page ruling was dated Saturday and released by the city Wednesday.
Harless’ attorney indicated his client is unlikely to seek his old job, at least for now. He has been receiving workers’ compensation and has applied for a disability retirement pension.
But Harless now has the right to be back on the job, according to arbitrator Harry Graham.
PAST VIDEOS ON HARLESS: • VIDEO: Canton officer threatens citizen. July 28, 2011 • VIDEO: Harless behaving badly again? July 28, 2011 • VIDEO: Harless under investigation again? Aug 26, 2011
“Return to active service, if ever, is to be determined by competent medical authority,” wrote Graham, an arbitrator since 1972 and a retired professor of industrial relations at Cleveland State University.
Harless found himself at the center of an Internet-spurred firestorm after a police car video captured him threatening a man he pulled over about 1:40 a.m. in an area with a reputation for drugs and prostitutes.
During that June 2011 traffic stop, Harless screamed profanities and said he wouldn’t have lost any sleep if he would have shot and killed William Bartlett of Brewster. Harless had become enraged after he discovered Bartlett had a loaded .38-caliber pistol, which he was permitted to carry.
“As soon as I felt your gun, I should have took two steps back, pulled my Glock 40 and just put 10 bullets in your ass and let you drop,” the officer screams in the video. During the flurry, Harless also said he should have gunned Bartlett down for being stupid.
The video went viral on the Internet after being posted by Ohioans for Concealed Carry.
‘CONDUCT WAS DEFENSIBLE’
In January, Safety Director Thomas Ream fired Harless for making threats during multiple traffic stops. Ream cited a pattern of verbal abuse and making physical or death threats.
The safety director said the arbitrator had more information about the incidents. Unlike the city’s disciplinary hearing, when Harless was advised by a medical professional not to participate, he testified and answered questions at the arbitration hearing.
“This is not a shocking ruling given all the things that were present for the arbitrator,” he said. “So we will abide by this ruling, and if officer Harless is able to get his medical clearance, we’ll let him back on the police department.”
Now, if he could just disappear the thug, no problem.
I see that you have as much confidence in the system as I do ;-)
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“As soon as I felt your gun, I should have took two steps back, pulled my Glock 40 and just put 10 bullets in your ass and let you drop,” the officer screams in the video. During the flurry, Harless also said he should have gunned Bartlett down for being stupid.
Was the Officer criminally charged with Terroristic Threats? If not charge im now get a conviction, then no problem keeping him of the force.
"Waiting for the boot lickers to show up and defend this ruling."
Well, I'm not a boot licker, but I am a CCW holder (and carry all the time).
There are no "right" people in this situation. The cop absolutely was a 'roid-rager completely out of control. But the CCW holder was also in the middle of obviously illegal activity (I have my own opinions about whether soliciting for prostitution should be illegal, but it is regardless, and as a CCW holder he should not have been engaged in such business).
The cop should have been let go, as his temperament and comportment is absolutely anti-social and I'm sure this isn't the first time he's berated suspects in such a frightening way. But the CCW holder should absolutely lose his permit as well. In my opinion, while interesting, this isn't a very good example of an advocacy incident for CCW.
I don’t know if its boot licking but,
When I was a kid in high school, a cop chewed me out like
this guy for having beer in my car. It was just as brutal
and harsh. While I sat in the car in cuffs he took the beer
out and poured it all out. Then he let me go with a threat
of getting my a$$ kicked.
I still see him some times when
I go vote. And we have a laugh about it.
He probably saved my life.
” LEOs are nothing but legalized gangs as far as I’m concerned and I have no respect for them whatsoever.”
The way to solve the problem is to elect a constitutional sheriff in your county. The deputies are well-trained, respectful of citizens and support the 2nd amendment. My constitutional sheriff gives lectures to local women’s groups, urging them to buy a weapon and learn how to use it.
Bravo, sir!
“The way to solve the problem is to elect a constitutional sheriff in your county.”
But what about the FED’s? Will he defend us from those who
threaten our constitutional rights the most? Or Maybe we can get
Padre Pistolas.
http://agren.blogspot.com/2011/08/padre-pistolas.html
He’s sucking on Workmans’ Comp? What the hell for?
“I would have grounded and pounded his jackbooted ass.”
Is that a police term for something like, desk duty for
a month and no coffee and doughnuts?
Or high body slam dunk to the ground
with two rights to the jaw?
Had this policeman pulled this act with me, he would not do it again or I would be 6 foot under myself. I would not have been letting a whore out of my car but no man, woman or child will ever come on to me in that fashion and live.
The only response that can be made is for the people he threatened and menaced to file a civil lawsuit against the city, asking only that he not be allowed to be a law officer, as he is “unsuitable”; but if the city does decide to put him back in uniform, that they pay $10m in settlement to his “victims”.
That amount is big enough so that the city attorneys would say “heck, we could get half a dozen policemen for that amount. So the heck with this psycho.” In that such attorneys are fairly bloodless number crunchers.
IF the cops and firemen were ever able to be fired for cause and actually have these two bit arbitration boards all allow them back in no matter what, I wouldn't get so angry over these stories....
these civil boards are nothing but union thugs .....
“But what about the FED’s? Will he defend us from those who
threaten our constitutional rights the most?”
Check it out, Slambat. Armed sheriffs stood in the road after Katrina and refused to allow the Feds entry into their counties. The county sheriff is one of the most powerful elected posts in America. Look at what Sheriff Arpaio has done in Arizona. He’s defying President Buckwheat and the racist black panther Holder. Even the federal courts have ruled that county sheriffs are sovereigns, and the feds can’t order them to carry out their commands.
If TSHF, you want a constitutional sheriff in your county. For example, a sheriff has the power to raise a 2,000 man auxiliary deputy force for “emergencies.” The leftists forgot to infiltrate the sheriff post. It belongs to us.
As I suggested, check out the power of a common law, constitutional sheriff.
This is not about the ccw holder or advocacy for ccw. This is about an armed, out of control government agent. Your transparent attempt to dilute the focus from the cop belies your claim of not being a boot licker.
If the sheriff is a staunch supporter of the Constitution, you are correct.
However, in some parts of the country, that is a big “if”.
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