An Officer Admitted Making a Racist Threat. He Still Has a Job.

[SummerMadness]

An Officer Admitted Making a Racist Threat. He Still Has a Job.

Michael J. Reynolds, a New York City police officer, landed in Nashville on a Sunday morning in July 2018, court records show. He and six other men, two of whom he later identified as New York City officers, were on what was supposed to be a three-night bachelor-party junket.

About 18 hours later, Officer Reynolds, who is white, kicked in a black woman's door in a drunken rage, threatening her and her sons with a racist slur and obscenities.

[...]

This month, he was sentenced to 15 days in jail and three years' probation after pleading no contest to four misdemeanors as a result of the episode, court records show.

As of Monday, though, he remained an officer, stirring a growing backlash against the New York Police Department. More than 10,000 people signed an online petition demanding his dismissal and supporting the woman whose home he invaded, Conese Halliburton.

And this is why there is distrust in some communities.

 

[grasping the after wind]

An Officer Admitted Making a Racist Threat. He Still Has a Job.


And this is why there is distrust in some communities.

This is one reason why people distrust public service unions.

 

[SkyWriting]

An Officer Admitted Making a Racist Threat. He Still Has a Job.
And this is why there is distrust in some communities.

And this is why there is distrust in some communities.
Total Line of Duty Deaths 2019: 131

Assault 3
Gunfire 46
Heart attack 16
Struck by vehicle 14
Vehicle pursuit 1
Vehicular assault 6

Statistics

• Average age - 43
• Average tour of duty - 14 years

Total K9 Line of Duty Deaths: 27

• Automobile crash 1
• Duty related illness 2
• Exposure to toxins 2
• Gunfire 5
• Gunfire (Inadvertent) 2
• Heat exhaustion 5
• Struck by vehicle 6
• Vehicle pursuit 1

 

[SummerMadness]

And this is why there is distrust in some communities.
Total Line of Duty Deaths 2019: 131

Assault 3
Gunfire 46
Heart attack 16
Struck by vehicle 14
Vehicle pursuit 1
Vehicular assault 6

Statistics

• Average age - 43
• Average tour of duty - 14 years

Total K9 Line of Duty Deaths: 27

• Automobile crash 1
• Duty related illness 2
• Exposure to toxins 2
• Gunfire 5
• Gunfire (Inadvertent) 2
• Heat exhaustion 5
• Struck by vehicle 6
• Vehicle pursuit 1

What is the point of this post and its relevance to the topic?

 

[SkyWriting]

What is the point of this post and its relevance to the topic?

Why there is distrust in some communities.

Didn't you read what you wrote?
The incident happened in one of the highest crime neighborhoods, 12 south.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Why there is distrust in some communities.

Didn't you read what you wrote?
The incident happened in one of the highest crime neighborhoods, 12 south.

What are you talking about? This guy wasn’t on edge while fighting crime. He was on vacation, got drunk, and broke into the wrong house.

 

[SummerMadness]

What are you talking about? This guy wasn’t on edge while fighting crime. He was on vacation, got drunk, and broke into the wrong house.

There are some that will defend a police officer no matter their transgression because they are all about using the power of the state to subjugate groups of people. The most important thing is submission to the government, but this submission only applies to others, never to themselves.

It would also help if people would link to their sources because if we actually look at the reasoning given (police racism is a result of violence toward police officers), they should probably take a look at the 15 deaths that occurred among police officers in NY.

11 of those deaths were 9/11 related illnesses, 2 were friendly fire incidents, one was a heart attack and the other was due to complications from surgery from an on-duty injury.

Somehow, I don't think that quite justifies a drunken and racist attack on citizens in another state. But even if they dealt with violence in their job, that still does not justify going to another state, getting drunk and then attacking innocent people with racial slurs.

If anything the bigger implication points to the callous members of Congress who did not want to cover the healthcare of officers that sacrificed their health performing their duties on 9/11 while the same federal government told them the environment was safe for them to work in. These same leaders were more obsessed with tax cuts than helping these true heroes. Now that's a bigger scandal.

 

[JohnAshton]

Keeping him on the force would probably not be my vote, but this is up to his supervisors.