Wednesday, April 24, 2019

CMPD Shady Sketchy Smoke and Mirrors Anything But Transparency and Honesty

If there ever was any doubt that CMPD was still the house of RoMo, it vanished on Tuesday in the courtroom of Judge Lisa Bell.

When former CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe left the Queen City in the fall of 2014 many had hoped it was the dawn on a new era.

The department was a morale disaster, with officers leaving in droves and the "old guard" heading for retirement. Rank and File Officers begged the city to hire from within and the city yielded picking Kerr Putney to head the largest department between Atlanta and Washington. In doing so many hoped for change.





Some things did change but Rodney's cronies stayed on.

CMPD could not have looked worse than it did yesterday in the courtroom of Judge Lisa Bell.

City Manager Marcus Jones confirmed that Chief Putney advised against showing Charlotte City Council the entire body camera footage ahead of time. But Jones said he felt it was important for leaders to see it so they could engage the community. Then Chief Putney said he was advised not to provide the full footage to the court.

The Putney admitted that the department had hours of video in its possession that showed the Franklin shooting and the aftermath.

Cedar's Take: If the idea was to build trust in the community apparently someone is going about it in the wrong way. Let's face it CMPD Brass, the City Manager, Charlotte City Council all look bad because they are blame each other while resisting transparency and a law that’s supposed to take body cam releases out of their hands.

Sadly the only hero in this shit show is WBTV's Nick Osner who is an idiot for not knowing words matter when dealing with CMPD. Everyone else knows limiting words "immediately after" will give CMPD cover, and CMPD believes the less information they share the better. 

Hey Nick learn to embrace words like "any" and "all" even if CMPD lawyers think all means some. 

The trouble with less information is better scenario is, that it gives agitators like Bishop Talbert Swan, the ability to provide vast amounts of disinformation in a very rapid and believable format aka social media. His latest "Fact" is "Daniguirs Franklin had a properly holstered gun in NC, an open carry state. CMPD told him to put the gun down. When he reached for it they shot and killed him." 

Bishop Swan's prior "facts" Franklin was unarmed and they shot the wrong man didn't stand the test of video. 

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

The department was a morale disaster.... it should read the department was a moral and ethical disaster.

Anonymous said...

Lots of dirt and corruption throughout the department,but especially at the highest levels.. I'm betting Putney and his cronies take what's left of the pledge money,too!

Anonymous said...

Hey CP what do you know about the pledge money?

Anonymous said...

The NAACP will get all over this transparency thing. You can't tell people you are being open and up front, honest and transparent when you are a lying dog.

Anonymous said...

No Charges will be filed and another kkk kop will get away with murder in Amerikkka again.

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah.... And the leaders of the local "KKK" chapter here in Charlotte are all black.
SMH......

Anonymous said...

The idiocy of not releasing the full video in fact all the videos is absurd. If the department looks bad who cares? The total lack of transparency makes all of us look bad and a certain segment of the population is going to hate us, demand we are all arrested and sent to prison no matter what. So show them what happens when they don't do what the police say. Let it be graphic, let it be violent. Maybe some of them will straighten up.

Anonymous said...

Nick Osner is a horrible reporter, and even worse person. if the stupid SOB is so interested in transparency, why didnt they ask for the Kelly shooting video MONTHS earlier. Oh thats right Kelly was white. If Osner was so fucking worried about transparency, why didnt he go to court to get the cc TV camera footage of the Butler high school shooting. Oh thats right, nobody in this fucking town gives a fuck when two african american kids kill each other. WBTV is fucking lazy and pathetic. And it appears they are working overtime to see that the town burns.

Anonymous said...

CMPD is one of the shittest departments and went downhill during King Rodney's reign of terror and now King Putney took the same stance as King Rodney. It wouldn't even have mattered if they stayed internally and promoted a white officer to take King Rodney's place. They were already groomed that way along with command staff to throw everyone under the bus that they could.

Anonymous said...

I want to know how Chase Suddreth does it? Being stuck with Allie Rooks for the next 20 years has got 2 suck.

Anonymous said...

CFD will swap Chiefs with you today. No questions asked with all baggage included.