The mayor of a small Alabama city said the city couldn't legally fire police officers, so the three member police department was temporarily disbanded
A University of Akron police lieutenant used"unjustified" force following the arrest of a man off campus in July 2022. Here's what body cameras captured.The mayor of a small Alabama city said the city couldn't legally fire police officers after the city's three-member police department was engulfed in a scandal over racist texts. So the city is instead disbanding the department and laying off its officers.
That meeting set in motion the process of disbanding the department, but the details of how to terminate remaining officers remained unresolved.PREVIOUS REPORTING:The problem with firing the officers was uncovered by the city's attorney, Latimore said at Thursday's meeting. The city's personnel policy requires two written complaints and a verbal warning to be filed before an employee can be terminated.
"This has uncovered a flaw that not a single person at this table realized we have with our personnel policy," Latimore added as residents attending the public meeting expressed outrage that the officers involved could not be fired.
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