Case #1
“An East Tennessee law enforcer who bragged about the ‘tune-up gloves’ he wore when beating suspects to remind them ‘who the boss was” and shouted ‘I’m not sorry for what I’ve done’ when a judge convicted him of civil-rights abuses is headed to federal prison,” Raw Story reported (here).
Anthony Bean, a former chief sheriff’s deputy and small-town police chief, was convicted of beating handcuffed intoxicated detainees on two separate occasions. His lawyer complained, “As of the date of this writing, Bean has spent 191 days without experiencing the sun on his face or breathing fresh air, while being bombarded with the constant screaming of another inmate whose episodes last 48 to 72 hours (and) make it impossible for … Bean to sleep.”
An unsympathetic judge gave the unrepentant bully 6 more years to think about what he’s done.
Case #2
Former Atlanta cop Robert Malone is facing multiple felony charges for pointing a gun at a black family and using the “N” word in a road rage incident. (See story here.)
“On May 5, Courtney Harris said she, her boyfriend Quinton Rogers, and their three kids were waiting at a traffic light when [the] light turned green, but the car in front of theirs never moved. When the family pulled around the car, Malone honked his horn and yelled racial epithets,” Raw Story reported (here).
“He was in a rage,” Rogers told WSB-TV. “I don’t feel like he should be a police officer,” Harris told a local TV reporter. “I don’t feel like he should walk around with a badge.” He isn’t and doesn’t; he resigned after the incident.
Police work is demanding and sometimes stressful. And cops are human, like the rest of us, although most of us don’t road rage or fling racial epithets after a bad day at work. Let’s face it, some people aren’t suited for police work, and he’s one of them.
Anyway, if Malone gets a felony conviction from this, he can’t possess firearms anymore, which means he can’t be a cop anymore. I don’t think he should be a truck driver either, given his propensity to get impatient with other drivers. I can’t see him retraining to be a social worker or diversity training consultant. Laundry worker or mass feeding cook, maybe? Free training for those occupations is available in prison.