Yet another drunk and driving FCPO
Yet another Fairfax County cop was arrested for drunk driving….young people….pay attention to this, the department has more than its share of drunk cop incidents….ask yourself, “Why are they drunk? Do I want to work in place populated by drunk people carrying loaded weapons?”
In this case Prince William Police arrested FCPO Nathan Jones, for
driving under the influence.
Back in September they arrested a separate FCPO for drunk driving.
No one wants to work for the Fairfax County Police...do you blame them?
Short nearly 200 officers,
Fairfax PD staffing 'at a crisis level' ahead of holiday season
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) —
Thanksgiving tends to be one of the most dangerous and deadly times on U.S.
roads due to increases in impaired drivers and reckless driving.
Going into the holiday season,
the Fairfax County Police Department is facing a shortage of police officers –
officers who are responsible for enforcing traffic laws and getting drunk
drivers off the roads.
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin
Davis said recruiting classes have gotten larger. However, the Fairfax County
Police Department is still facing a staffing crisis.
“When you’re down around 200
officers and you’ve disbanded your specialty units, of course, it’s at a crisis
level,” Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity told 7News on Tuesday.
Herrity says The Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors needs to focus on keeping current officers by paying them
more.
“We’ve seen increases in crime,
we’ve seen increased traffic accidents and pedestrians fatalities,” said
Herrity. “Public safety isn’t something you can ignore. It will catch up to you
and it is catching up with us.”
7News was the first to report the
staffing emergency at FCPD over the summer.
At that time, FCPD was short 189
officers, Davis told 7News in August.
Vacancies later reached above
200, according to police sources. Now FCPD is short 192 officers, Davis told
7News on Tuesday.
“We’ve still seen a higher rate
of resignations than retirements,” Davis told 7News. “We are doing all we can
to keep people focused on the value of policing. It’s still the greatest job in
the world. We just need to increase the volume of the right candidates who want
to do this job for the right reasons.”
Davis hopes new recruitment
efforts, including a $15,000 signing bonus for new officers, will help.
“This is a hot market and we are
all in competition with each other. The application pool has dwindled over the
past couple of years,” Davis said. “We have great support from the Board of
Supervisors and the community at large. So we have to consider many things like
compensation and financial incentives and other benefits to attract people to
the job because a police applicant in 2022 has a varied menu of choices about
where to go and young people are paying attention more now than they ever
have.”
Fairfax Co. Police Chief Kevin
Davis speaks to 7News on how the department is handling a staffing crisis
(7News)
“In about a week and a half that
192 will go to 154 when we start our largest police academy class in several
years,” added Davis.
“They're still in a crisis
level,” said Herrity. “We're still around 200 short. Through September, we had
101 officers leave. We've had a couple of recruit classes, some transfers into
a total of about 57. We got one more recruit class coming in. We're going to
have some additional resignations. So we're still at a net loss on officers. We
still got work to do.”
Herrity praised the $15,000
signing bonus for new officers, but he said it came too late. He blamed the
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for failing to act quickly enough. The
Board of Supervisors is led by Chairman Jeffrey McKay.
“I think it was late, but I'm
happy it was there,” said Herrity. “I wish we had given them the salary
increases. The best thing we can do is retain our current officers. That's going
to help a lot with bringing new officers in, but we really need to focus on
retaining current officers.”
“There were some ideas put on the
table last budget,” Herrity added. “Salary increase that got cut in half and
spread across all public safety agencies rather than given to the patrol staff
where we really need them - Second Lieutenant below. We could extend Drop. That
was also on the table. So there are some creative things that we should and can
be doing. And I hope that the board will come around on it.”
Herrity predicts more officers
will have to retire by the end of the year.
“Simply, [the ] Drop [program] is
officers pick their retirement date three years out, and they can't work past
that date,” he said. “So they’re not allowed to work past that three years. We
can extend that by a year or two years with literally no cost to the
government.”
“And the board said no?” 7News'
Nick Minock asked.
“And the board said no,” Herrity
replied.
One place some officers have gone
to is Amazon.
“Amazon is certainly a challenge
not just for Fairfax but for police departments around the country,” Davis
said. "We have to be creative We have to be the employer of choice and
there is a commitment to do so.”
But Supervisor Herrity expressed
doubt that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has that commitment.
“We need to get back to public
safety being a priority in Fairfax County," said Herrity.
Fairfax County is beginning its
budget process soon. 7News will let you know if the Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors approves pay raises for current officers - or not - to address the
staffing crisis.
“We hope we are turning the
corner a little bit on recruiting,” said Davis. “We had five Fairfax County
police officers who resigned in the last year who came back, so they came back
to the job. So that’s exciting. The grass isn’t always greener.”
Good work Farifax County PD.......
'Everything is not OK. It's not
anywhere near OK' | Major crimes are up in Fairfax County
FAIRFAX, Va. (7News) — With five
weeks to go until the end of the year, crimes against people and crimes against
property are up in Fairfax County, Va.
That’s according to the latest
data from the Fairfax County Police Department.
These crimes include arson,
burglary, vandalism, robbery, motor vehicle theft, assault, homicides,
kidnapping, sex offenses and other major crimes.
“We have for the first time ever,
have an Auto Crimes Enforcement squad. All they do is go after car thieves,”
said Kevin Davis, the Police Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department.
Davis said this has helped reduce
skyrocketing auto thefts --- although he said auto thefts are still up over
last year.
“At the end of March, across the
county, [auto thefts] were up about 45%,” said Davis. “And this Auto Crimes
Enforcement squad has driven that down and we stand at about ten percent increase
in auto theft.”
“We are challenged by auto
theft,” added Davis. “We are challenged by the theft of catalytic converters.
We are challenged by domestic violence, and we are challenged by simple
assaults.”
All year, 7News has been tracking
and reporting on crime trends in Fairfax County.
In August, when 7News told Board
of Supervisor’s Chair Jeff McKay that several categories of crime are going up,
McKay responded by saying Fairfax County is the safest jurisdiction of its size
in the country.
It’s a message that’s been echoed
by Fairfax County’s top prosecutor Steve Descano.
“At the end of the day, we are
experiencing what most jurisdictions are experiencing except we are weathering
it much better,” Descano told 7News. “That allows us to keep our communities
safe and crime is down over the last few years in general.”
Descano is counting all crimes,
including Group B offenses which include drunkenness. But the number of Group A
crimes is increasing.
Supervisor Pat Herrity is calling
out local leaders like Chairman McKay for painting a rosy picture of crime
trends in Fairfax County while the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) is
short around 200 officers.
“Everything is not OK. It’s not
anywhere near OK,” said Herrity. “You can’t be down 200 officers, disbanding
all your specialty units, units that took our department from a good department
to a great department and be OK. The police shortage impacts everybody day to
day. Whether that be increase crime, increase speeding, and people ignoring
traffic laws. It puts us at risk. We’ve seen that in everything from our mall
managers not reporting crime, now to the increased traffic fatalities that
we’ve had. It’s something that when you lose control of, it’s hard to get back.
We need to get back to public safety being a priority in Fairfax County.”
As of Nov. 22, Fairfax County saw
20 homicides in 2022 which is the same number of homicides in 2021. In 2020,
there were 15 homicides and in 2019 there were 14 homicides, according to FCPD
data.
“Murders 2022 vs. 2021, we are at
20. You might recall we finished 2021 with 20 murders,” said Davis. “A third of
those murders were committed by adult children killing their parents inside
their homes. This year is a little bit different. But, domestic violence in
terms of homicides is still the theme. Nine of our 20 murders are
domestic-related murders. So, we are still seeing domestic violence stress and
anxiety, isolation all those things play a role in the family dynamic and
violence that has erupted because of that.”
Young people, stop and think about it after you read this....do you really wan to spend 20 years with idiots like this?
8 sex assault cases unable to be investigated due to destroyed evidence: Fairfax County Police
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - Eight sex
assault cases where evidence was marked as having been destroyed can no longer
be investigated, Fairfax County Police say.
The department says they have reviewed 93 cases
assigned to Detective Cynthia Lundberg from 1994 to 1997 that were identified
following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by a victim of 1995 sexual
assault.
The Washington Post was
the first to reveal the destruction of evidence in Gretchen Van Winkle’s case.
Two separate investigators looked at the FOIA
request with particular emphasis on the 46 sex assault cases where evidence was
labeled as having been destroyed.
Detectives had no concerns with the destruction of
evidence in 38 of these cases, as evidence was destroyed in accordance with
FCPD policy. Examples of evidence destroyed per department protocol include
cases closed by arrest and fully adjudicated, cases where the victim did not
want to further the investigation and cases closed as a police service.
Detectives found eight sex assault cases listed
within the FOIA where evidence was marked as having been destroyed and
questions remain. Additional investigation into these cases would be warranted
but is now impossible without the necessary evidence.
The victims in these cases are all living survivors
of sexual assault, and FCPD says they deeply regret that they will not likely
be able to obtain the justice they deserve due to the destruction of evidence.
FCPD says victims with questions about an existing
case are encouraged to call. They will be provided with a case update and
supportive services.
"The improper destruction of evidence makes it
extremely difficult to hold offenders of crimes accountable," said Major
Ed O’Carroll, Bureau Chief, Major Crimes Bureau, Cyber and Forensics. "The
victims in these cases deserved better, and the Fairfax County Police
Department deeply regrets the actions of the past. Steps are now in place to
prevent such errors from ever repeating."
The department says its policies and practices are
now explicit in the way evidence is preserved in all sexual assault
investigations. These policies include:
- All physical evidence recovery kits (PERKs),
regardless of whether they are submitted for testing or excluded from testing
because of a legislatively mandated exception, are required to be stored for a
minimum of 10 years, or 10 years past the victim’s 18th birthday, whichever is
longer.
- If at any time, the victim objects to the
destruction of a PERK, or rape kit, the kit shall be kept for a minimum of 10
years from the date of the request.
- Officers/Detectives shall notify survivors of
their PERK ID number and PIN for access to the PERK Tracking System, unless
there is sufficient and articulable reason to believe that doing so would
unnecessarily interfere with the investigation.
- All officers/detectives shall provide victims with
a PERK ID number and PIN, and are required to notify a victim at least 60 days
prior to the destruction of a PERK of their intent to destroy the kit.
- Regardless of the results of any forensic testing,
no FCPD employee may unilaterally request the destruction of any PERK kit or
other crime scene evidence relating to a sexual assault that has been
identified by MCB Command, in conjunction with the Director of Victim Services,
to be deemed relevant to prosecution.
- FCPD employees who seek the destruction of these
items shall request a meeting with both the Commander of the Violent Crimes
Division as well as the Director of the Victim Services Division for final
review and joint concurrence.
- The status of property or evidence shall not be
changed without the written consent of the officer/detective responsible for
the item(s) along with secondary approval of their first-line supervisor.
In July 2016, Virginia law was put into effect
stating that a law enforcement agency that receives a PERK collected from a
victim who has reported the offense shall submit the PERK to DFS for analysis
within 60 days of receipt, except in certain circumstances.
In June 2019, Virginia also launched a website to
track the location of PERKs to ensure survivors of sexual assault know what’s
happening to their cases. Survivors of sexual assault are given an ID number to
see where their kit is. No personal information that could identify the
survivor is logged in the website.
Young people, want to work with drunks and people who dream about killing themselves (check the stats)
Fairfax County police officer on administrative leave September 12, 2022
A Fairfax County police officer is on administrative leave after he was arrested in Stafford County for driving under the influence.
Police officer Stephen Copp, who has worked with the police department for 15 years, was arrested while he was off-duty. He was driving a county vehicle at the time of the arrest, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
An international affairs bureau investigation is underway. Copp was assigned to FCPD’s criminal investigation division.
Fairfax County Police drove into a car head-on in a traffic stop. The driver wasn't their suspect
this is the quality of people the FCPD is hiring nowdays
October 6, 20222:08 PM ET
In a video posted to Instagram on
Saturday, Jamee Kimble can be heard berating officers with the Fairfax County
Police Department after a police vehicle hit the silver sedan she, her two
children and another adult had been traveling in.
"I'm sitting at the light,
and he comes and hits me from the front!" Kimble yells in the video.
"They stopped the wrong person."
Kimble, who said she was on her
way to Walmart to buy food for her kids, said in her social media post that the
incident occurred just six days after she delivered her youngest child via
C-section.
Officers drew their guns on her
and handcuffed her, Kimble said, before releasing her and offering medical
treatment.
Kimble can be heard in the video
telling police that she couldn't be the suspect they were looking for because
she had been in the hospital giving birth at the time of the earlier incident.
The department said it has opened
an administrative review of the stop.
Speaking in an interview with
News4 Washington, Kimble said she was shocked by the incident and wanted the
police to apologize.
"I still am very angry and,
more than anything, hurt because I teach my children that the police are
supposed to protect us, and that if they need anything they can call them for
help," she said.
Youg people, think about this (below) The FCPD sucks so much they have to offer incentive pay to join
Fairfax County New Police Hires Could Get A $15K Hiring Bonus
Young people, think about this (below) Its such an idiot job they have to pay people from leaving
McLean body wants Fairfax to offer retention bonuses for county police
Young people, listen to me, if they can’t fill vacancies it means the job sucks.
Stop and think about it. And its not the job
itself, it’s the loons on the job because at this point the only people who want
the job are those desperate for authority, basically the same people everyone
avoided in high school.
Personnel
emergency declared as FCPD tackles staffing challenges
The Fairfax County Police Department is under
a personnel emergency amid a staffing shortage that has continued
for several months.
In a temporary shift,
police officers are transitioning to two 12.5-hour shifts and working mandatory
overtime, according to the FCPD. That departs from the standard staffing model
of three 11.5-hour shifts.
Additionally, patrol officers “may be
required” to help other squads to maintain safe staffing levels, FCPD told
FFXnow.
So far, the police
department has 194 operational vacancies, but that does not account for 50
recruits currently in the police academy. That leaves 144 total vacancies.
“We have launched a
multi-media recruiting campaign this summer with updates videos on our
new JoinFCPD.org website,”
a spokesperson said.
Some say the Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors has failed to provide adequate salary increases and
other incentives to attract and retain the county’s police force.
While officers saw an
average pay increase of nearly 8% in this fiscal year,
beginning July 1, pay scale steps were frozen between fiscal years 2019
and 2021.
“The salary increases
that some officers received this fiscal year doesn’t make up for what was
previously promised to them,” Steve Manohan, president of the county’s
chapter of the Southern States Police Benevolent Association said. “Keep
in mind, there were hundreds of officers who only received a 4% cost of living
increase in fiscal year 2022.”
Board Chairman Jeff McKay
says the board is working with FCPD to recruit and retain officers, noting that
Chief Kevin Davis has a plan to reach out across the county, region and
nationwide — including non-traditional means like advertisements at movie
theaters. The department has also reduced the length of its application and
background information requirements in an effort to streamline the process.
“All of this is done to
position FCPD as an exciting and meaningful career choice for those who may
have a calling for public service,” McKay wrote in a statement.
McKay says the county is
looking at different ways to support officers as staffing adjustments continue.
“The Fairfax County Police Department is a top
destination for anyone who wants to serve their community, and we will continue
to get that message out while also exploring ways to maintain our regional
competitiveness in compensation and job satisfaction,” he said. “Like with all
municipalities during this pandemic era there is much work to be done, but our
team–and especially our officers–are up to the task, and we are here to support
them 100%.”
Still, Manohan says more
must be done to address the “exodus” of police officers from the county.
“Our board maintains that
a three-step decompression of the pay scale, or 15% pay raise is a reasonable
and good faithed effort to stop the exodus of officers from leaving the
department and makes an honest investment of the public safety of Fairfax
County,” Manohan said.
Part of that hiring
commitment includes increasing the number of women in the police. By 2030, the
police department hopes that at least 30% of its workforce will consist of
female police officers.
“An internal look at
retention are all aspects of a multifaceted approach to returning to our
complete staffing model,” the spokesperson said.
High vacancy rates have
plagued the public safety sector across the country. In Fairfax County, the sheriff’s
office has been affected as well.
Manohan says the time to
act is now.
“With nearly 200
operational vacancies within the department, violent crime increasing, and
officers being forced to work longer hours;
the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has failed to address
the serious issues concerning the rank and file of our department,” he wrote in
a statement to FFXnow.
The FCPD reported
an overall drop in crime last year
compared to 2020, though there was an uptick in homicides.
It’s unclear when
staffing will resume to normal operations, according to the FCPD. The
department did not provide specific information on how staffing shortages may
impact service, shifts, hours, and the composition of police units.
Family criticizes Fairfax Co. police for fatally shooting man suffering from mental health crisis
Fairfax
County police fatally shot 26-year-old Jasper Aaron Lynch inside a McLean,
Virginia residence.
"We
have a family member here who was having a bit of a psychotic break," the
caller says. "He's here now. He's throwing some stuff right now, so if we
can get a dispatch that would be really helpful."
So the
cops went over to the address and shot the kid to death.
In one
hand, Lynch can be seen holding a wine bottle, and in the other hand is a
tribal mask.
Officers
can be heard repeatedly telling Lynch to put the objects down. "It's
alright, bud," one says.
Lynch
disregards the demands and throws the mask at the officers and then runs after
them swinging a bottle.
So they
killed him.
"Our
son, Aaron, was experiencing a severe mental health crisis on July 7. He was
scared and asked for both of the 911 calls that were made that day. We believe
that the three police officers who answered the second 911 call could have, and
should have, handled this far differently," the statement reads. "To
respond to Aaron’s mental health crisis by shooting him at all, let alone
multiple times, cannot be justified. We recognize that, at times, police
officers face grave and unknown dangers in the line of duty, but that was not
the case for that call at our home regarding our son. Aaron was about 5’
6", slightly built, and holding just a bottle and a decorative mask.
"As
parents, we mourn the heartbreaking loss of our son and are left with only
memories and regret. Had we known there was any possibility that the police
responding to the second 911 call would use lethal force against Aaron during a
mental health crisis, we would not have involved them until a mental health
counselor could be present, as was the case for the response to the first 911
call. We hope our efforts to find out more about this incident will, in the
future, help families in similar situations avoid such a tragic outcome."
The
officer who shot Lynch has been identified as First Class Edward George. He has
been placed on administrative status.
Young people. do you want to work around people like this guy? Then stay the hell away from the Fairfax County Police, takea job with the federal government, join the army, anything else but these killers.
on the other hand, if your suspected of killing your infant daughter, you'll just get house confinement, ...
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.
(7News) — Jason Michael Colley, a 42-year-old former Fairfax County police
officer charged in the death of his 6-month-old daughter in 2017, entered an
Alford plea to two counts of first-degree assault Thursday in Frederick County
Circuit Court.
An Alford plea is a type of guilty plea in
which a defendant maintains their innocence but admits that the prosecution's
evidence would likely result in a guilty verdict if brought to trial.
According to police, 6-month-old Harper Colley
died on October 31, 2017 after sustaining the injuries that led to her death on
September 19.
The State argued that the court sentence
Colley to a term in the Division of Corrections within the sentencing
guidelines of eight to eighteen years based on the two counts, followed by five
years of supervised probation. The defense argued for a term of home detention.
Judge Julia A. Martz-Fisher sentenced Colley
to a combined fifty years suspending all but eight years to be served on
private home detention. The defendant was also ordered to serve five years of
supervised probation with additional terms that he not engage in physical
punishment of children.
The plea agreement comes following four days
of jury selection for what was slated to be a lengthy trial.
On September 19, 2017, Troopers with the
Maryland State Police responded to the 12000 block of Fingerboard Road in
Monrovia for the report of a sick or injured subject. The call came in as
6-month-old female infant that was having seizures and not breathing. The 911
caller was the defendant, Jason Colley. The infant was transported to Shady
Grove Hospital in Montgomery County. The infant was later flown to Children’s
Hospital in the District of Columbia where she later passed away. Over the
course of a lengthy investigation, detectives determined that the infant’s
traumatic brain injury could not have been caused by an accident or illness,
but by an intentional act.
“We're hemorrhaging.”
Listen, young people.
There’s a reason the Fairfax County Police are short by 160-200 “officers”
because no one with an IQ over 80 will work there.
Why not?
Because the Fairfax
County Police are corrupt (call and ask why the last chief “resigned” so
quickly)
Because their short
staffed, they’ve lowered their standards and the people joining the force are the
same people you and everyone else avoided in high school.
Because no one want to
work with them, if you work with them, you’ll be worked into the ground (15 to
16 hours a day) for less money than trash collectors make (its true, look it
up)
Think about it…..is
this what you want to do with the prime years of your life?
Fairfax County Police Association whines about laws that keep them in check.
Virginia’s attorney general met with members of a Fairfax County cops group night to listen to their claims that new laws and policies are making it tougher for them to do their job.
They claim they’re
having a tougher time bringing charges in some cases because magistrates are
interpreting cases more liberally. …..as is the right of the magistrate since
the arresting cop evidently interpreted the laws from a narrow, far right view.
They’ve also
expressed concerns about inexperience on the part of some assistant
commonwealth’s attorneys and say some cases are being dropped.
Well….no, their cases
aren’t being dropped because some assistant commonwealth’s attorneys are
inexperienced….the law doesn’t work that way. The law is or the isn’t.
Experience has nothing to do with it.
Welcome
WHAT WE DO
Welcome to the Fairfax
County Police Department. The Department’s vision is to do whatever there hell
we want or at least as much as we can away with. We provide minimal ethical leadership and work to improve our closed cop culture. We
strive to preserve the sanctity of all human life, as long as people are
watching and to keep pace through intimidation. To visit the Chief's Page,
click the "Learn More" link below.
Fairfax Cops Busted For Aiming Guns At ‘Juvenile’ Filming Arrest In Virginia Viral Video: ‘You Have A Weapon’
Fairfax Cops Busted For
Aiming Guns At ‘Juvenile’ Filming Arrest In Virginia Viral Video: ‘You Have A
Weapon’
This
instance proves why it's absolutely necessary to allow citizens to record the
cops.
In
Fairfax County, Virginia, two police officers are being investigated after
getting busted for aggressively approaching and pointing their guns at a
“juvenile” who was filming them in a video that has since gone viral.
“Why are
you pulling the gun on me?” the cameraman—who police identified as a
minor—asked a female officer.
“Because
you have a weapon,” the officer responded definitively despite the fact that
the juvenile was not holding a weapon.
The teen
behind the camera shouted, “No weapon, no weapon,” but the officer kept her gun
on him despite the fact that, at this point, she had plenty of time to recognize
that the phone he was holding was not, in fact, a weapon. Meanwhile, another
cop ran up on the cameraman with his own gun drawn while shouting at the teen
to get on the ground.
Here’s
the excuse Fairfax County Police gave in a statement, according to Fox 5:
“Around 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, a group of 3-4 juveniles entered the IHOP, 6655 Arlington Blvd in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County. One of the juveniles threatened the hostess while another lifted his shirt, revealing what appeared to be a handgun in his waistband. The group departed but returned later attempting to get the employee to come outside to the parking lot. When officers arrived, the juveniles ran to a nearby parking lot, where officers detained two subjects and did not find a weapon. While detaining them, a third subject, who the officers believed to be involved, approached with something in his hands. Due to the nature of the call and not locating a weapon, officers ordered the subject to the ground at gunpoint. Officers determined the juvenile was holding a cell phone and filming. The three juveniles were detained and later released to their parents. The investigation has been assigned to a detective in our Criminal Investigation Division. As with all pointing of a firearm events, the incident is under review.”
Fairfax County Cops kill a man with mental health problems: Here’s what’s going to happen. The FCPD will investigate. The FCPD will determine they did nothing wrong. The FCPD will get away with it.
Fairfax County police identify man shot & killed
by officers in McLean home Thursday
Friday, July 8th 2022
The victim this time was 26-year-old Jasper
Aaron Lynch.
The incident began just after 7 p.m. Thursday,
with a 911 call about "a man in crisis." Officers and a co-responding
clinician arrived at the home on Arbor Lane, but say they were unable to locate
the person they'd been called about.
"Arbor lane.. caller is back on the phone
saying subject is now throwing things," a dispatcher can be heard saying.
Police say officers returned to the home in
response to that second 911 call, this time without a clinician.
The cops explained returning without the clinician
"We're going to determine exactly where she was, but nature of the second
call was far different than the first call"
In other words “We need time to come up with a
story to cover our ass”
When officers arrived at the home that second
time, they say a "struggle" ensued, and allege that Lynch charged at
officers with "something in his hand". Lynch was holding a bottle and
an object believed to be a large, decorative tribal mask. They allege Lynch
threw the mask at an officer and began to swing the bottle in striking motion.
Police said they attempted to verbally
de-escalate the situation before two of the responding officers deployed their
tasers and a third officer fired his service weapon multiple times.
"We have one subject multiple shots in
the chest. We need an ambulance now," an officer can be heard saying on
dispatch audio.
Settlement reached in suit alleging excessive force by Va. officer - The Washington Post
A $150,000 settlement has been reached in a
federal lawsuit alleging a Fairfax County police officer
Tasered and punched a Black man without a weapon on him……the FCPD investigated
and found nothing wrong with his actions…..
Let me interpret this for you: We’re having a hard time finding people who want to work as cops or who want to continue to work as cops so we’re broadening the scope of what police abuse is.
Police review panel adds process to weed
out unfounded complaints
TysonsReporter.com June 1, 2022 at
11:54am
Fairfax County’s Police Civilian Review
Panel has implemented a screening process to better assess whether complaints
have merit.
The panel, which reviews complaints of
misconduct by the Fairfax County Police Department, uses the process to
determine if a request should be reviewed by the entire panel, thereby
expediting its other cases.
“I don’t mean to disparage anyone who
brings complaints, but sometimes they are simply unfounded, and it is not
necessary for the entire panel to devote our resources to viewing a complaint,”
panel member Jimmy Bierman said during the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’
May 17 public safety committee meeting.
Unarmed man stunned by Fairfax Co. police officer settles civil rights lawsuit
Neal Augenstein | naugenstein@wtop.com
An unarmed Black man who was shocked
with a stun gun wielded by a white Fairfax County police officer in June 2020
has reached a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit, WTOP has learned.
Two months ago, a jury found Officer
Tyler Timberlake not guilty of three counts of assault and battery after using
his Taser stun gun on Lamonta Gladney while responding to a call in the Mount
Vernon area.
In March 2021, Gladney filed a civil
rights lawsuit against the officer, claiming Timberlake’s actions violated
Gladney’s constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure, and
equal protection under the law.
Court records obtained by WTOP show
Timberlake’s attorney, Heather Bardot, has notified the judge that the case has
been settled and the settlement has been approved by the Fairfax County Board
of Supervisors.
WTOP has asked for the details of the
settlement but Timberlake’s and Gladney’s attorneys, and a Fairfax County
spokesman declined to provide specifics.
Contacted by WTOP, Gladney’s
co-counsel, Bruce Godfrey, said he “was favorably impressed with the
professionalism of opposing counsel” for Timberlake and Fairfax County. He
declined to describe the financial terms of the settlement.
“We believe now, and believed while
filing, that our case was well-founded,” Godfrey said, referring to his
co-counsel Thomas Hennessy. “We think the case is worthy of study, on the
doctrine of qualified immunity, which is one of significant public policy
interest.”
Qualified immunity, based on U.S.
Supreme Court rulings, protects officers from lawsuits unless it can be shown
their actions violated “clearly established” rights a reasonable person should
know about.
In earlier filings, Bardot told the
judge the parties had reached agreement on April 27 “to resolve this case fully
and finally,” subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors, who met in
closed session on May 10, with outside counsel, Jim Guynn.
Bardot wrote Guynn had extended the
settlement offer, after meeting privately with the Board “to discuss the case
and obtain direction and settlement authority.”
On May 10, Bardot updated the court
that the case had been settled and asked that Timberlake’s civil trial, which
was scheduled to begin May 16, be removed from the court’s docket.
Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff
McKay said there will be no liability admitted by either party in connection
with the case. He declined to specify how much the county paid in the
settlement.
“Moving forward, I have full faith in
Chief [Kevin] Davis and the Fairfax County Police Department to continue making
progress on important issues such as use of force, de-escalation,
communication, community outreach and building trust,” McKay told WTOP, in a
statement. “Fairfax County is the safest jurisdiction of its size in the U.S.
and that is due to our police department and our community working together to
achieve this.”
