Much blame for SPD officer who hit handcuffed suspect

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From the Wednesday edition of KIRO Nights

I have two thoughts on the officer who was fired from the Seattle Police Department and is now suing the city for his dismissal.

Dismissed SPD officer who hit handcuffed suspect to sue town for dismissal

His name is Adley Shepherd and, if you recall, in 2014, on-board camera footage showed him hitting Miyekko Durden-Bosley in the back of his police vehicle after she had him. struck as she was forced into the car.

He was fired by then leader Kathleen O’Toole for violating the SPD’s use of force policy. Then he asked a three-member Disciplinary Review Board to overturn his dismissal and instead granted him a 15-day suspension. Next, a King County Superior Court judge and the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled in 2019 and 2021, respectively, to overturn the DRB’s decision and uphold Shepherd’s termination.

I don’t like bad cops. I don’t like responsive cops. I really despise him. And if you’re a cop, and a lady kicks you, and then she’s in the back of the car, and she’s been overpowered, and you hit that lady, I’m not not sure you are worthy of being an officer and wearing the badge.

Now I could invite Seattle Police Officers Guild Chairman Mike Solan and we can discuss it, because I think he might have a different perspective on this. And I’m ready to change my mind about it. That’s why I’m mixed on this.

But Shepherd is suing for different reasons, and this is where it gets really interesting. He continues on the grounds that he was poorly trained by the SPD due to political motives and that he was subjected to disparate treatment based on his race because he is a black man.

Basically he says he was poorly trained by the SPD because the SPD is racist. That’s a pretty left-handed argument, isn’t it? It’s a pretty leftist deal here, where he says that while the police are systematically racist, they poorly trained him, which led him to think it was okay to block a lady in the back of the house. a police car.

This is my other thought on this, is that if you are a cop, part of your job is to realize when someone is a danger to themselves, a danger to others, and a danger to your. fellow police officers. That’s what went wrong in cases like Eric Garner, the man who was literally strangled to death and had a heart attack in New York City for selling cigarettes in bulk. This is exactly what happened to Freddie Gray, who was beaten so badly that they parted the vertebrae in his neck and then put him in the back of a police car. This is exactly what happened to George Floyd.

I am not speaking from the perspective of a crying Liberal Democrat. I’m just talking about someone who has two eyes and two brain cells to rub, that when the cops react, they’re bad cops. They’re supposed to be the kind of person who says, “Let’s not strangle this guy, let’s not beat this guy, and let’s not push this man’s windpipe enough to strangle him to death.”

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Now, if you want to debate George Floyd, I’m not interested in that. You can email us on the show – we can have that debate later. What I’m saying is responsive cops are bad cops. But at the same time, what if Shepherd was in fact poorly trained by SPD? Isn’t he right when he said, “You trained me badly, I was told it was very appropriate, and now you tell me it is not appropriate?” “Is he not entitled to some sort of compensation if he was indeed badly trained by the SPD?

Recruits go out with old gray beards for about a year to learn the ropes. They pair up with someone else before going out on their own. I imagine the argument he’s trying to make is that whoever was his supervisor gave him the wrong direction.

And if he does, and he rightfully thought he could freeze a woman who kicked him, he’s a jerk. But, two, I’m sympathetic to that. Like someone say to me, “Hey, Jack, by the way, you can swear anything you want on terrestrial radio”, and then I’m gonna drop some crazy F-bombs and get fired, right on my supervisor who told me that I could do that? This is the argument that I will present to everyone.

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