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| Cop Fired for Putting Paper Bag on Perp's Head |
| 2010-06-26 |
| Oh, so our finest can taser granny but can't put a bag over a spitting perp's head for fear of looking politically incorrect. A fully-trained 20-year vet tossed out with the trash. Brilliant. Who gives a $hit about the perp? Even if he's innocent of whatever he was arrested for, he's guilty of assault on an officer. Who knows if he has something communicable or not? In fact, I kind of like the idea of the bag over the stupid hood anyway. Thanks to the cowardly pols for wisely shepherding my money, for taking care of our public servants and their families, and for having no faith in the public's ability to see that this officers action were warranted enough to not be concerned about it. This would never have happened in wiser times. A Fort Lauderdale cop is out of a job after he put a paper bag over the head of a spitting mad perp. Part-time reserve Officer John Wezkiewicz had been with the force 20 years before he was sent home last month, according to the Sun-Sentinel. The incident that got him fired happened Nov. 1, when a man, Gerald Feldhaus, was arrested outside Yolo Restaurant on Las Olas for trespassing and resisting arrest. "He was spitting and screaming as he would look and yell at other people," Wezkiewicz told investigators. Rather than use a department-issued hood designed specifically for prisoner control, Wezkiewicz used a brown paper bag. "Poor judgment prevailed concerning his decision to utilize a brown paper bag," Capt. Rick Maglione wrote in a report on the incident. Claiming Wezkiewicz "shed a negative light" on the department, the report said using the hood instead would not "be falsely perceived as an attempt to humiliate an individual." |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #4 Not only that, he's a part-time reserve officer. That generally means, no pay, all of the aggravation, and doing it just for the chance to have Mr Feldhaus spray him with viral crud, too. Now they'll have to pay for someone to cover that area instead, out of their (more than likely) shrinking budget, just because some desk diva imagines a paper bag is more humiliating than an "official department-issued hood". Way to go, Cap'n Rick! |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-06-26 16:59 |
| #3 Less than a mile from the Elbow Room, which explains a lot. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-06-26 10:37 |
| #2 his decision to utilize a brown paper bag, No wonder he was canned. The politically correct phrase is "bag of color". |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-06-26 09:40 |
| #1 PC running mad. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-06-26 04:59 |