Fired Oregon officer: Alcoholism was a disability
From Yahoo! News: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city of Gresham, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In Indianapolis, a cop was driving drunk and ran over some people on motorcycles. He tested positive for DUI (triple the limit), 2 or 3 hours after the crash. It was in the morning, on a weekday. He killed one of them and permanently, seriously disabled 2 others. The police’s union is defending him. He’s claiming that work related stress led to his alcoholism. He has a record of discipline problems, and has crashed his police car at least 2 other times, fortunately no injuries were involved.
it was in august of 2010 that he killed one, permanently and seriously disabled 2 others — Bisard tests .17, says ‘I messed up’
I’m willing to bet that the people who discovered him are charged with terrorism or something equally reprehensible in the next 24 hours
I could go on and on, but you know the story and you get the gist of it. I can’t for the life of me understand anyone who defends him, but especially when the defense seems to be, “well he’s a cop, and that means it’s ok”. He’ll get off with little or nothing happening to him. Not only does he have the gall to say he didn’t really do anything wrong, but there are plenty of people who agree with him.
These people are the enemy. They essentially say that the police should be able to do whatever they want, because they’re the police. This is the attitude of the places that America fights wars against. These cops would say that they’re good Americans, even that they’re better Americans than you or me. But the attitudes/beliefs are very different than what America is really all about. All the while everybody knows that what is on paper and how things are practiced in real life are often very different.
I keep a personal record of headline stories of the police involved in serious misbehavior. It’s just my small way of fighting back. We have to do our best to keep them honest. I don’t even know the number of how many innocent people have been murdered by the police since I started keeping track. If you’ve read this far, read a little more.
The story that really got it started for me was when a cop killed a guy in Iowa City, approx ‘95 or ‘96. The guy was talking on his cell phone, in his own place of business. The cop thought the cell phone was a gun. The guy was completely minding his own business, not a trouble maker or someone with an axe to grind, like me. The cop killed him, easily. This cop at least felt bad about it. He resigned.
It’s nearly impossible to find anything out about him now. The police’s union DID NOT want him to resign. They wanted him to fight it and have life go on as usual. Their position is pretty clear. In all of the articles about it afterward, the people who were his supporters all said similar things about him. That he was a good guy and felt bad about it. That he was a “good looking kid”. I shit you not. It’s easy (or used to be) to find these stories in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Many of the stories, if not most, use that same line, that cop was “a good looking kid”. I guess if he hadn’t been good looking they’d of actually charged him with murder or negligent homicide or something. But due to his relative attractiveness, he clearly needs to be free.
#justice
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