Cop Fired For Standing By While His Partner Kicked Man Repeatedly In Head Wants Job Back

Chris | InformationLiberation
May. 15, 2015



An Albuquerque officer caught on surveillance video doing nothing to stop his partner from kicking a suspect in the head repeatedly like a wild man possessed wants his job back because he says he did nothing wrong.

From KOAT:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —An Albuquerque cop who was fired for standing by during an excessive-force incident wants his job back.

The incident happened back in February 2011. Surveillance video was rolling as Officers John Doyle and Robert Woolever tried to arrest a man for crashing his car and taking off.

The video shows Doyle rearing back and kicking the man several times.

Later that year, both officers were fired.

APD said Woolever was fired because he did not stop Doyle from using what officials thought was excessive force, and because his police report made no mention of Doyle's repeated kicks.

Woolever's attorney appealed his termination in front of the city's personnel board Wednesday afternoon.

The board deferred its decision to a later date.

The attorney, former APD officer Thomas Grover, believes his client did nothing wrong.

"If his termination is upheld ... what we're telling to cops is, 'You know what, go ahead let the bad guys run, don't chase them,'" said Grover. "Officers report what they did, other officers see and report what they did."
If you punish my client for standing by and doing nothing while witnessing his partner commit a crime, you're saying criminals shouldn't be pursued when they commit crimes.

Solid logic.













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