At first it seems this is just another money grab accusing CMPD of wrong doing from some thug on the street but read on this is a total Cluster Truck of a hard working taxpayer by a City County Government.
CMPD's operation sounds pretty much by the book. But beyond that city staff at every turn threw up road blocks and made excuses. Look around you the decline is stunning and its only going to get worse. But why stiff this guy? And are there others?
And it begs the question is the City of Charlotte treating this man this way because he is not African American?
Read on without the local news pop up ads and clutter. Yes it is rather long and complicated, but to do a full blown takedown of Violent Felon only to have the Mecklenburg County DA dismiss the charges is nuts. Read On and there's a link to the original story at the end.
From The Better Local News Station:
Brett Hunter never saw the undercover unit parked behind a bush three doors down from his pickup spot on July 29th of last year. He also didn’t know the person climbing into the back of his Honda was wanted.
“Hi, Ladasher,” Hunter asked as the man plopped into the rear driver’s side back seat. Hunter said he found out later the man, who was later identified as a wanted juvenile, used someone else’s Lyft account to arrange the ride.
Brett Hunter’s in-car camera system captured this image of an unmarked law enforcement unit parked behind a bush along Lyles Court on July 29, 2021. The same Ford Expedition followed Hunter and his passenger for three miles until they were pulled over by CMPD units at an address on Mosby Crossing Drive in the N. Tryon area of Charlotte. (Source: Brett Hunter)
Hunter was – unknowingly – giving a ride to a person armed with a pistol. A person Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers had a warrant to arrest. Instead of moving in to arrest him, officers watched the rider get into Hunter’s car, then followed the pair from the Hidden Valley neighborhood to a drop-off point three miles away.
Hunter’s in-car cameras captured everything – even the white Ford Expedition parked on the next block. Exactly 60 seconds into the ride, the Expedition showed back up, following Hunter’s car.
The video shows no conversation between Hunter and his rider. Hunter also said he never noticed the Expedition, the burgundy Ford unmarked CMPD police van, or the string of marked CMPD units that descended upon the men as they stopped at the drop-off point on Mosby Crossing Drive.
Just before Hunter stopped, a police siren broke the silence of the ride. Hunter was just seconds from finishing the transaction when CMPD struck.
“Driver, let me see your hands,” a CMPD officer shouted as he stood behind his patrol car door with his pistol pointed at Hunter and the man. As Hunter worked to figure out what to do, the video shows the juvenile shoving his hand down the front of his pants and pulling a black pistol out.
The juvenile looked back at the officer, who had a gun pointed at the pair, and appeared to drop the gun into the door panel.
A CMPD officer shouted at the men, “Come out with your hands up, just the backseat,” as Hunter opened his door to get out. “Go, drive,” the armed juvenile tells Hunter. “No,” Hunter said as he got out of the car.
The city would not tell us what charge the juvenile was wanted on, and only confirmed the warrant was for a “violent” offense.
“I was very firm about this. I mean, I wasn’t scared of the scenario, I was – to be honest – angry that someone wanted to take advantage and do something. And I firmly said no and that’s when I got out,” Hunter told Queen City News, recounting the seconds he was in the middle of CMPD officers with guns drawn on him and a wanted man.
The in-car recording showed the man climbing from the back seat and into the driver’s seat. He dropped the shifter into drive and tried to take off. Multiple CMPD officers charged toward the car and Hunter lunged back into the car to shove the shifter into park. The video shows the car rolling forward with Hunter hanging on.
“When I saw him jump right back in it’s like, I don’t want to be a victim. So, I jumped right back in to stop,” Hunter said. Hunter is a full-time Lyft driver, and his car is the tool Hunter uses to make a living.
“Get out of the car,” one CMPD officer yelled as the car continued rolling through the apartment complex parking lot dragging Hunter alongside. The Honda’s engine revved and the dash camera showed the car reached 4 miles per hour before Hunter apparently knocked the car out of drive, preventing the wanted man from escaping.
The engine continued revving, but the car wasn’t going anywhere.
CMPD Officer Casey Shue drove this unmarked police van in front of Brett Hunter’s car as a wanted juvenile attempted to escape during an police undercover operation on July 29, 2021. The impact caused nearly $4,000 in damage to the police van, damage the City of Charlotte tried to force Hunter to pay. (Source: Brett Hunter)Read More »
A wanted juvenile attempted to drive away with a Lyft driver’s car during this July 29, 2021 CMPD undercover warrant execution. (Source: Brett Hunter)Read More »
An unidentified CMPD officer grabs a wanted juvenile during this July 29, 2021 undercover warrant execution. (Source: Brett Hunter)Read More »
An unidentified CMPD officer puts a wanted juvenile in a head lock after the man attempted to steal a Lyft driver’s car during a July 29, 2021 undercover warrant execution that started in the Hidden Valley area of Charlotte. (Source: Brett Hunter)Read More »
The unmarked police van that followed the pair into the parking lot sped around Hunter’s car and drove in front of the slow-rolling Honda. The car slammed into the side of the van, bending the van’s side door back into the front passenger door.
The impact caused more than $4,800 in damage to Hunter’s Honda and the city shows repair records totaling $3,258.36 to repair damage to the undercover police van.
“The damage to the vehicle was actually done across the front, through here; little bit across the hood,” Hunter said as he showed the damage to Queen City News Chief Investigator Jody Barr during a Feb. 2 interview. The struggle between officers and the wanted man also damaged the Honda’s interior.
CMPD officers were able to drag the juvenile from the car and take him to the ground to arrest him. Hunter said his elbows and knees were scraped up and his back twisted in the struggle to save his car.
Brett Hunter vowed to fight the City of Charlotte after he said the city put his life at risk by letting him pick up a rider who was wanted for “violent” acts as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers looked on. Those officers later attempted to arrest the man before the Lyft ride ended. (WJZY Photo/Jody Barr)
Hunter said two CMPD officers told him the city would cover the costs of the damage and that CMPD accepted responsibility for putting him in the middle of the takedown. Hunter said Officer Casey Shue and Sgt. Michael King assured him the city would make things right. The officers also helped him file an insurance claim with the City of Charlotte’s Risk Management office.
Hunter filed a $16,000 claim against the city last July to include his cost of medical bills and two months of missed work without the use of his car. It took the city more than four months to deny Hunter’s claim.
Hunter contends the officers’ body camera recordings would show these assurances, but the city will not release the body camera recordings to him.
Hunter contacted Queen City News for help after he spent months working to resolve this case with the city. The city still believes Hunter is responsible for what happened that day.
DAMAGES, INJURIES RESULTED FROM ‘HIS OWN’ CHOICES
Brett Hunter couldn’t get anywhere with the city. After months of waiting and more than two-dozen attempts to talk to someone at the city’s Risk Management Division, the city notified Hunter in a Dec. 13, 2021 letter the city was not responsible for his damages.
“After the review of the information gathered during our investigation, we have determined that the City of Charlotte is not liable for this loss,” Risk Management Claims Representative Ashley Short wrote in the letter.
“The City of Charlotte will be unable to make any payment regarding your claim,” Short wrote.
City of Charlotte’s Risk Management Division sent Brett Hunter this denial letter dated Dec. 13, 2021, denying his insurance claim. (Source: Brett Hunter)
Hunter immediately picked up the phone in hopes the city could explain why, “The person I’ve been speaking with, she had said to me that it does not matter what CMPD says, and that no one asked me to get back in the vehicle,” Hunter said. “I was stunned. I didn’t have much response. I said, I want to appeal this is all I could come up with.”
Hunter filed his appeal in late December.
“He made a choice to jump back in his vehicle. He’s not hurt if he doesn’t get back into that vehicle,” city spokesman Cory Burkarth told Barr in a Feb. 14 phone call. Burkarth said the city would not cover Hunter’s medical bills or the damages to his vehicle since the city determined those damages were caused by the juvenile’s actions and Hunter’s reaction. Burkarth said CMPD did nothing to cause the city to pay for the damages caused during the police takedown.
Despite the assurances Hunter said CMPD made to him on scene last July, the city’s Risk Management Division website warns the public that statements made by city employees are worthless regarding responsibility when accidents happen.
“Sole authority to settle and/or pay claims rest with the Governing authorities and select personnel of the Risk Management Office. Employees are not authorized to determine liability or obligate the City, County or Board of Education for payment of a claim. Therefore, the Risk Management Office will not be obligated to provide any payment(s) toward a claim based on statements of employees prior to completion of an investigation into the claim. “
“I did not ask to pick up a passenger who was wanted by the police. Things happen, I get that and understand and that you have to respond appropriately from a police perspective. And the fact that they were willing to take responsibility for the actions that said a lot about CMPD and I was glad. But as I said, with the aftermath involving the City of Charlotte, and that as the victim I am now being charged or have a claim against me for the damages the CMPD sustained; I don’t know how to respond appropriately to that,” Hunter said holding the city’s denial letter.
Hunter said he asked Risk Management’s representative to provide him with the body camera recordings from the city’s investigation. The city, according to Hunter, told him he wasn’t allowed to access any of the records of the insurance investigation into his claim.
On Feb. 14, Hunter filed a request with CMPD to access the body and dash camera recordings, which state lawmakers helped police agencies to keep from the public through the state’s open records law. North Carolina requires a citizen to petition a judge before a law enforcement agency will release a police video recording to the public.
A judge hearing the petition is the final arbiter in the release of police recordings.
Brett Hunter’s in-car camera captured this image of CMPD Officer Casey Shue looking out the side door of an undercover police van following a collision on July 29, 2021. (Source: Brett Hunter)
“The body camera footage for this incident is included in the criminal investigation and will be presented in court. If you wish to obtain your own copy of it, you will need to file a petition to the Superior Civil Court Judge in Mecklenburg County,” Sgt. Darren Aldridge wrote to Hunter in a Feb. 14 email.
Aldridge is assigned to CMPD’s Professional Accountability Bureau. Aldridge indicated in his response to Hunter that the prosecution of the juvenile was ongoing. Hunter informed the officer the prosecution had ended.
“If the case has been adjudicated already in court, then that is quite impressive considering the backlog and limited court hearings. I do not keep up with when these cases are heard,” Aldridge responded. Hunter filed a petition for the recordings and is awaiting a hearing.
Officers charged the juvenile with multiple crimes following the July 29, 2021 takedown. Because the man was charged as a juvenile, the state allows those records to remain hidden from the public. The Mecklenburg County District Attorney prosecuted the juvenile in the case involving Hunter. The DA sent Hunter a Victim Impact Statement showing the juvenile’s initials as “Z.T.” and listing the following charges:
Common Law Robbery
Second Degree Kidnapping
Possession of Stolen Goods
Possession of a Handgun by a Minor
Simple Assault
The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office would not identify the juvenile to Hunter but told him last summer the juvenile pleaded guilty to the charge CMPD arrested him on during the July 29 takedown. The DA’s office used the charges involving Hunter’s case to negotiate the plea agreement, Hunter said the DA’s office told him. In exchange for the guilty plea to the original charge, the Mecklenburg County DA’s Office dropped all charges involving Brett Hunter.
“Because he pled guilty to everything was wanted for in the first place I was told after the fact – the DA did not contact me, a person involved with juvenile court contacted – to let me know this had happened and to apologize, saying that you should have had the right to talk to the judge about this,” Hunter told Queen City News.
Hunter said the DA’s office did not tell him about the plea hearing and gave him the wrong information about the disposition of the case. Hunter didn’t find out the true disposition until we contacted the DA’s office on Feb. 11 to ask about the office’s treatment of Hunter, who was the victim in the case against the juvenile.
The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office sent this victim impact statement to Brett Hunter after the wanted juvenile was charged with attempting to steal his car. Hunter said the DA’s office never informed him of a plea hearing where the charges against the juvenile were dismissed. (Source: Brett Hunter)
After our request for an interview, the DA called Hunter to “clarify” mistakes the office made in handling him as the victim, Hunter told Queen City News. Hunter said the DA’s office told him the juvenile pleaded guilty to the common law robbery charge and the DA dismissed the other charges.
Hunter said he still doesn’t know for certain what really happened since he wasn’t allowed to appear in court to be heard as the victim in the case. Because the offender is a juvenile, the DA’s office would not answer any questions related to the case – including questions about notifying Hunter of the court hearing.
“At the time of the court date, we were awaiting additional correspondence from the victim. (Juvenile court proceedings move quickly.) After the hearing, there was a miscommunication with the victim about the disposition of the case, and our office has since clarified that information with the victim. He expressed satisfaction with the outcome,” Meghan McDonald, the DA’s Community Liaison Coordinator, wrote in a Feb. 14 email to Queen City News.
THE CITY WANTS HUNTER TO PAY
Brett Hunter filed an appeal on Dec. 23, asking the city to reconsider its decision in the insurance claim he filed seeking to have his car repaired, his medical bills paid, and the weeks he couldn’t work because of his damaged car.
His appeal detailed – with timecodes from his dash camera recordings – the events where he believed CMPD created the circumstances that led to the outcome, “My argument is that there are multiple points in which the outcome should have been prevented. The warrants on the suspect were not carried out on the staked out address nor as he left the home to enter my car despite being monitored by CMPD. If it was anticipated the suspect would be armed and dangerous, then why allow the chance of a hostage being made out of a driver,” Hunter wrote in his appeal.
Brett Hunter points out the moment a wanted juvenile pulled a pistol from his pants during a Lyft ride interrupted by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department undercover warrant execution from July 29, 2021. (WJZY Photo/Jody Barr)
Hunter got an email alert from his auto insurer on Jan. 11, just weeks after his appeal, notifying him an insurance claim had been filed against him. Hunter said he later learned the city had filed a counterclaim against him after he filed the appeal.
Then, three weeks after filing his appeal, Hunter opened his mailbox to find a letter from Preferred Solutions, addressed to him on behalf of the City of Charlotte. Preferred Solutions describes itself as an “Insurance Company” handling claims adjusting, according to its Facebook page.
The Preferred Solutions letter, dated Jan. 25, informed Hunter the city transferred all liability in his claim to him and the juvenile. “We have completed our investigation into the facts of the above captioned loss and find that you or the driver of your vehicle was at fault for this accident,” the letter stated. The letter also indicated the CMPD van was “parked” when the video shows the van was purposely driven in front of Hunter’s car to stop the wanted juvenile from escaping.
The letter also claimed Hunter’s personal insurance policy was “not in force” at the time of the takedown. Hunter provided copies of his insurance policies showing coverage at the time before, during, and continuing after the crash until the present. Hunter provided records to Queen City News showing coverage under both his personal policy and an insurance policy through Lyft at the time of the takedown.
This Jan. 25, 2022 demand letter from the City of Charlotte’s insurance claims adjuster ordered Brett Hunter to pay $3,258.36 for damages to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department undercover van. (Source: Brett Hunter)
“You are therefore responsible for this payment,” the letter continued. Preferred Solutions listed the amount Hunter owed the city as $3,258.36, the cost of the damages to the police van.
The city provided Hunter records showing CMPD’s van was repaired, and the city paid the repair bill paid on Nov. 4. It wasn’t until Hunter filed his appeal that the city demanded Hunter pay for damages to the undercover van.
“This tells me that they had something – the city had already set up something and was paying for it and was handling it and in response, they’re willing to counter my claim against them. I think in an act of intimidation. I’m willing to believe it to some degree. Whether or not it’s a coincidence, I don’t know, but that’s how I feel; like the city’s intimidating me and they want me to understand that this was my fault,” Hunter said.
Brett Hunter’s in-car video shows where he was seated when Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers had their guns pointed at him and a juvenile wanted for a “violent” offense during a July 29, 2021 undercover warrant execution in Charlotte. (WJZY Photo/Jody Barr)
The city, through its spokesman, told Queen City News a review of Hunter’s case found a “technical error…because of how it (the claim) was input into the system,” that caused the counterclaim against Hunter. “It should not have happened,” Burkarth told Barr during a Feb. 14 phone call.
Burkarth acknowledged Hunter’s concern over the timing of the counterclaim could appear to be retaliation for filing the appeal, but Burkarth maintained the counterclaim was simply an error. When asked how often these particular errors happen, Burkarth described this as a “rare bird,” situation.
The city could not detail exactly how the error happened.
“Please pass on our apology for that letter,” Burkarth told Barr, “Had you not told us, the city would have never seen this until the story aired. The spokesman also confirmed in the call the city has “dropped, dismissed, as prompt as possible” the counterclaim against Brett Hunter.
Hunter said he thought it “convenient” the city rescinded the counterclaim within hours of being contacted by a news outlet. Hunter said he’s spent hours trying to get someone from the city to explain this to him.
We requested interviews with both CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings and the city’s Chief Financial Officer Teresa Smith, who also oversees the Risk Management Division. Neither agency head would agree to be interviewed for this report.
Chief Jennings never responded to an email sent directly to his city-owned email address.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings. (Source: CMPD)
City of Charlotte Chief Financial Officer Teresa Smith. (Source: City of Charlotte)Read More »
Neither CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings nor Chief Financial Officer Teresa Smith would agree to an interview to explain their departments’ actions related to the Brett Hunter insurance claim against the city related to the July 29, 2021 arrest of a wanted juvenile.
On Feb. 10 we submitted an interview request with CMPD, asking the agency to schedule time for an interview with the police chief. Spokesman, Lt. Stephen Fischbach, told Queen City News it could take as long as a month to find an opening in the chief’s schedule.
Our questions had to do with how the city decided to execute the arrest of the wanted juvenile. As of this report, Fischbach has not provided anyone to answer questions concerning the handling of this arrest.
I have continued to work on this request in partnership with the City of Charlotte Communications team. It is my understanding that you have been in steady contact with Cory Burkarth, who was taking lead on this request. It is also my understanding that Mr. Hunter provided a recording of the CMPD officer interaction, I am waiting to review that recording as a last piece in determining who would be best to take part in this interview from the CMPD. I will let you know once we have reviewed the recording and have an update.
LT. STEPHEN FISCHBACH, CMPD, IN A FEB. 15 EMAIL TO QUEEN CITY NEWS
Fischbach never responded after the Feb. 15 email. CFO Smith’s office said Hunter’s appeal is still active and would not answer questions regarding the claim.
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48 comments:
There is always another side of the story. And Jody Barr is a complete bottom feeding moron
6:33 doesn't seem like there is much up for debate. CMPD did what they could be the City stepped in and said pound sand loser. He needs a lawyer who will take this on and give those idiots a wakeup call.
If they can hand over the green stuff to family of some crack eating felon they can damn sure pay to fix this guys car. Sounds like he might have saved a couple guys from injury. The fact that the DA cut the kid loose is not surprising he'll be tagged and bagged soon enough.
But not compensating the guy gives the department a bad look as if it wasn't bad enough.
SURVEY TIME. NAME SOME OF YOUR WORST FRONT LINE WEAK SUPERVISOR EXPERIENCES. And go!
^^ spend a day at the airport with Sgt Fey and you’ll have plenty of your own stories to share.
F the city of Charlotte. Thugs. F them.
And we are supposed to support the police? What fools we conservatives have been.
The Chikin' Samich!
Looks like the guy got a raw deal from the city but nothing out of line with the CMPD operation. Subject started to move team chose to take him now rather than later.
"The number of crimes committed by members of the African American community is disproportional to the population at a 5-1 ratio. Yet the liberal masses refuse to address the fact that "The African American Community has become a culture of violence embracing criminality and gun play". Instead of addressing this core issue, they dismiss this charge as racism and white privilege."
Once a POS, always a POS!
Talking about a POS. Biden looked so scary on the World stage that Putin invaded. Nothing like seeing 100's of T-72B3M s rolling across someone's border. Oh well its time to stop going out to eat and pay the price at the pump for freedom. Oh yeah grocery bill also. I watch this guy digging for change at the gas station to put gas in his car. Yep, there are people out there who have to decide to either pay for gas or eat. Shutting off a pipeline first day in Office. Screwed the middle class dumbass.
Someone pass this dude George Laughrun's contact info. City will settle for six figures asap, or get taken for seven in a jury trial. I think any property attorney has a case against the city's insurance for dealing in bad faith. he will get a new car just for that alone.
Charlotte is a complete joke run by absolute morons. Any city official is typically void of proper intelligence, but Charlotte is making a run at Olympic contender status. CMPD is obviously about as well trained as any department where race is the key factor in EVERYTHING. Sorry boys, facts are proving this every single day.
What would have come of this if the thug had started blasting away from the backseat? If the Lyft driver responsible then? I am sure ZT will be a repeat offender.
8:46 the lil nugget thug is a POS but the Uber driver is clean even his driving record is spotless.
BLM...BLM...BLM!
Someone please explain why CMPD would not take this guy down before he got into a Lyft vehicle. Surely they could tell this is a rideshare...maybe by the front decal. Why would they endanger a completely innocent person by letting this drag out?
Was there zero planning involved, or did they think some thug getting into the backseat was some scene out of The Wire, and they were going to be lead to a bigger fish? You know, use whitey as the driver.
Jees, CMPD has wayyyy bigger issues than Pledge Fund, Chikin Samich, and all the folks getting nailed in the office. They obviously have zero intelligence in leadership, and a staff of troops that are willing to execute horrible planning. You all deserve that brace faced goof, the midget before him, and whatever Foster style lady is going to be the next leader. If you have a head and a heartbeat, and are in CMPD, go leave now, get out of LE, and get a civilian job. You all deserve better than this.
And the city managers who are allowing this to go on without resolution are equally inept. Going to cost a whole lot of money at trail. And as we learned, insurance doesn't cover the cost if a law was broken. Fairly certain that whole insurance refusal would probably void their policies covering this mess.
7:23 a couple a maybes
There's a tactical advantage to a take down on a public street in the open during a traffic stop. That is usually the plan because it removes the going back into the house option of the target.
All this falls on the team leader who makes the call as when to take the target and he or she may not have fully understood the situation.
They may not have expected a rideshare driver.
Could be they were looking for bigger fish.
But once the target was in custody any "issues" should have been corrected. Keep in mind we have a black run city and the ineptness that comes with promoting, electing, recruiting and hiring people solely based on their skin color.
I know a lot of CMPD voted for Joe Biden and I would hope by now you'd realize this was a god-awful mistake. Anyone have an idea how much CMPD spends on fuel each year? Well that cost is going to go insane and guess where that money is going to come from? We were already screwed but it just keeps getting worse. Thanks for voting for Joe Biden and the rest of the democrat clowns. LETS GO BRANDON
9:48, I think you are joking every time you post BLM, but just in case you aren't trying to be funny, please name something BLM has done for the black community. Also, I hope you are aware that while BLM wasn't giving financial support to the communities they supposedly represented, they were making donations to some democrat campaigns. They have 60 million unaccounted for and are run by several Dem operatives (including Michael Sussman, the old white attorney, who was arrested for the Russia collusion hoax) from the Hillary campaign. I know many people hoped they would do good things, but that's not what happened. Its corrupt, and a sad, sad situation with them. They took terrible advantage of the very people they said they were representing.
Please sue the crap out of CMPD. What they are doing is wrong, abusive and bullshit! Please set up a legal fund so people can donate for the attorney fees. Legal aid may also help. not sure, but CMPD should pay for the expenses and also the mental anguish of having to force them to do the right thing.
CMPD should have taken the suspect before or waited until the ride stopped. They put the vic in unnecessary danger and things could have been so much worse. They should have been kissing the vic's ass for stopping the vehicle and not allowing the perp get away. Surprisingly that isn't really the vic's complaint here. Obviously the situation was CMPD's responsibility. Following this CMPD wouldn't do the right thing and make the vic whole, they tried another shady tactic. Now they need to pay actual damages plus additional for all of the time and frustration suffered. I hope people will tweet this and post on Facebook, rumble or whatever social media and make it go viral! CMPD brass should be very ashamed! One would think CMPD attorneys would have them do the right thing but that's not what they care about. They need to be made to do the right thing.
The attitude of CMPD brass and the city of Charlotte towards its citizens, as well as generally being on the wrong side of things, is starting to remind me of CNN and their in-your-face pleasure regarding the Ukraine/Russia invasion. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
https://twitter.com/ScottJW/status/1496882047566192645
1159: Yes, exactly, sue CMPD. No wait, it is the city who is denying him his due. Sue City of Charlotte! Maybe Braxton will get on board. Oooops, wrong race. Heck, give the dude a medal for going into Hidden Valley to pick someone up to begin with. He won't make that mistake again.
And to think, Hidden Valley was a vibrant middle class neighborhood once upon a time in Charlotte.
2:54 Wouldn't you still have to sue CMPD since the city wasn't a party involved in the the incident? Or just name both.
Not going to be long before the new EV Charging Station will become the new Robbery/Carjacking Hotspot. What idiot thought that placing an EV Charging Station on The Ford was a good idea? I don't know too many Crown Vic Hoopties that need an EV Charging Station. I could understand placing a charging station in Balantyne to accommodate the yuppies who actually drive electric vehicles. Someone please explain how this makes any sense to anyone other than than the dumbass liberals who now run this shit hole of a city..
1027, your privilege is showing. How can people in the diverse communities of Charlotte be given the opportunity to dive EV's in the Biden economy of soon-to-be $5 gas without charging stations.
I am joking, but honestly, do you think those cables will last a full week in Charlotte before they are cut off and scrapped? This is a city with over half the street lights still dark from scrappers taking the wiring out. EV stations on the Ford, only Anthony Foxx would think that's a good idea.
All you motherfuckers on here talking that shit about my nigga Ramsey need to slow your role. Ramsey dun seen things that you other motherfuckers dont even think about my niggas. Get down with that.
LOL Drequan
Funny stuff there
Pledge fund?
BLM...BLM...BLM...!!!
Liberal policies making the world a safer place.
https://twitter.com/NYPDTips/status/1497218599907377183
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1497194941495320583?s=20&t=2eJdTcJ8IKIPjfuqPPgc4Q
I'm glad I retired in 2007. It was bad enough then. I feel sorry for you guys now.
A supervisor known for making life hard on his subordinates is about to lose one of the GOAT officers in the department because of the supervisor’s attitude arrogance and actions
@1016… you’re gonna have to be more specific. I know of at least 6 looking for new jobs because their supervisors are morons. JJ has taken the RoMo philosophy to heart: “Never promote anyone smarter than you.” Based on recent photos, you gotta be pretty stinking dumb to get promoted.
He knows who he is.
Well when you are more concerned about a black stripe on your pants than the well being of your officers, what do you expect?
The Sgt that got REMOVED from VCAT was good at running off officers. We could breathe after he left.
Well that is obviously penix
Let's be sure to pray for the heroic people of Ukraine!
@2/23 - 10.55am…
…I did.
You all sound like a bunch of retards on here bickering about your stupid jobs and supervisors. Let's try to actually find a way to fix Charlotte by making overhauls to the agencies.
How can we improve our sinking ship by removing McFadden, Jennings, Winston, the CM, and the Mayor? Who would replace these morons?
Is that possible?
Penix and Winterhalter were two that were very arrogant with the attitude, "I'm SWAT and you're not!"
Someone commented on cmpd attorney's from my experience the lead attorney Jessica battle not to bright.remember when she educated city council?I have a couple of stories myself just waiting for the right time
If you need to sue CMPD, you file the suit against the City of Charlotte and appropriate named officers, such as the City Manager Marcus Jones. If you don't say otherwise, it's presumed you are suing them in their 'official capacity.' If you want to sue in personal capacity also, you must state after the name, in official capacity and personal capacity. You can name individual police officers as well, name, in their official capacity and personal capacity. If you only file against "the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department," you'll be SOL for failing to file against and serve the proper party. They are not a separate entity. The City of Charlotte is the entity. Lots of rules that have to be followed before you even start on the facts.
5:54 …. 10+ years retired here. My biggest issue with swat officers was once they get in Swat , they became useless in the field.
Mediocre at best, lazy at worst, just waiting around for someone to pull the red swat lever. We would have been better served if it was a permanent unit and not a secondary duty. Of course that was when we did proactive policing , not sure what is going on now. Judging by this blog, everyone is hiding in their “hidey hole”.
850am, I completely agree with you. I had the luxury of working with several SWAT officers throughout my career. They were in worse shape than our academy rookies, and they did no work at all. (Check Collectors). Some of them have good experience, but most of them just sit around until its time to stand outside the house of a crazy person. Then they never clear from a SWAT call after 5 hours after the guy is in handcuffs. If you ever read one of their reports, its a joke. Mental Disorders gone wild and that's a very common occurrence.
I would still take a SWAT guy before I would take a LEC detective, bike cop, supervisor carpet walker, or a day shifter to back me up on a 911 call. The bar standard is on the floor.
Pledge fund?
The same supervisor was such a bully to me a civilian employee when he was PUT into professional standards. My stress decreased once he moved along.
Brown Lives Matter
No bail for Darien Dru
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