San Antonio police officer loses
job after claiming to give fecal sandwich to homeless person
Published November 04, 2016
A police officer in San Antonio
has been fired after boasting to his partner that he gave a homeless person a
fecal sandwich, according to reports Friday.
Fox 29 San Antonio identified the
officer as Matthew Luckhurst.
San Antonio Police Chief William
McManus told the station Luckhurst took two bread slices, put feces between
them and put the sandwich in a Styrofoam container.
McManus said Luckhurst told his
partner what he did and that the partner told him to retrieve the container
which he did, according to the station.
McManus said Luckhurst’s actions
disgusted other officers and the story reached the department’s chain of
command.
Mayor Ivy Taylor issued a
statement on the termination.
“Firing this officer was the
right thing to do,” he said. “His actions were a betrayal of every value we
have in our community, and he is not representative of our great police force.”
Luckhurst told the San Antonio
Express-News that his lawyer advised him not to comment. The paper said
Luckhurst became a San Antonio cop five years ago.
His lawyer, Ben Sifuentes, told
the paper his client joked about giving an excrement sandwich to a homeless
person but never actually did so.
“It didn’t happen,” he told the
paper.
The paper said investigators
tried to track down the intended recipient of the alleged sandwich without
success.
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