Video Leads To Firing of Mo. Officer

[Nomad559]

http://www.officer.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=5&id=38045

Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2715792117793977759&

A police sergeant whose berating of a driver was captured on videotape has been fired.

Aldermen in the town of St. George, a St. Louis suburb, voted 5-0 in a closed meeting Monday to fire Sgt. James Kuehnlein. Notice of the firing was posted Wednesday at City Hall.

Kuehnlein's attorney, Travis L. Noble, said the officer received a letter Thursday detailing the reasons for his firing. Noble said he would review the letter with Kuehnlein before deciding on a course of action.

Brett Darrow, 20, had a video recorder inside his car when Kuehnlein approached him in a commuter lot in the early hours of Sept. 7.

In a video that was widely viewed on the Internet, Kuehnlein is heard taunting and threatening Darrow, sometimes shouting and using profanity.

[johnnie]

1. Well this should give a few people around here an orgasm

The cop was an ass. Now he is out of a job....cool! :eyes:

[ret5hd]

2. And there is a good handfull here who are going to be very upset.

That is, if their support of this turd was anything more than pot-stirring.

[devilgrrl]

7. So you're suggesting that despite being a total ass, he should be able to keep his job?

:eyes:

[johnnie]

9. No, not at all

I wish all assholes lost their jobs. That would make my own job much more enjoyable.

[Dhalgren]

3. I'm glad that they fired the asshole. I get so sick and tired of cops

acting as they own us instead of working for us. This is an example of how cops behave as though they work for someone who owns everything and all of us are just chattel. The only reason this cop was fired and thwarted was because of the video-tape. This is just going to get worse and worse until the camps start filling up...

[Nay]

4. As the mother of a son who was victimized by just this type of

asshole cop, I can say -- GOOD. That "cop" will be flipping burgers here pretty soon, and that job will prob be too much for him.

[backscatter712]

5. Nice! Don't let the door hit you in the ass, you prick!

[lateo]

6. Hardees is hiring mother fucker!

buh bye

[beevul]

8. Heres a huge surprise...

from the article:

"Police Chief Scott Uhrig said he recommended that Kuehnlein be fired based both on his language in the tape and because he violated department policy when he failed to tape the encounter himself with his police car's camera."

This "officer" turned his recorder off, or never turned it on to begin with.

What possible reason could he have had for doing so? I'm sure it was just an innocent mistake. :sarcasm:


Maybe someday the cameras they have in their cars will be automated to the point where the officers have no control over them, which *might* help keep some of these power drunk types in line. Like they always say when they try to get consent to a search, "if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't have a problem with it".

Am I wrong?