Post by Shuftin on Oct 28, 2006 17:39:51 GMT -5
Reported By: Elaine Reyes
10/26/2006
Savage Beast Atlanta Georgia Police Officer Terrance Alexander, Who Attacked Woman At Airport, Reinstated, Again, Receives A Year Of Back Pay For Doing Nothing… Personnel File Shows 13 Other Suspensions Or Reprimands, At Least 5 Of Which Were Suspensions In A Single 5 Year Period.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – An Atlanta Police officer fired after a woman said he unnecessarily slammed her to the ground at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has returned to the force, 11Alive News confirmed Thursday.
The entire incident two years ago was captured on an airport surveillance tape and shows Officer Terrance Alexander approaching Diana Dietrich-Barnes for leaving her vehicle in a no-parking zone. The tape showed Alexander and Dietrich-Barnes in an altercation after he was struck with her passenger-side mirror, but both sides differed on just what happened next. Dietrich-Barnes said the officer body slammed her to the ground while the officer said she was placed there carefully after disobeying his order to move her vehicle.
A department spokesperson told 11Alive’s Elaine Reyes that Officer Alexander returned to the department in June after a civil service board said the firing was unjustified and a judge agreed. Alexander is technically on medical leave but is assigned to the central records department at police headquarters.
Alexander’s personnel file showed that managers had reprimanded or suspended him 13 times without pay for violating department rules. Chief Richard Pennington said that contributed to his decision to fire Alexander. A judge ruled that the police department must pay the officer the salary he missed within the past year.
Deitrich-Barnes settled a lawsuit with the city of Atlanta for $350,000.
www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=86643
10/26/2006
Savage Beast Atlanta Georgia Police Officer Terrance Alexander, Who Attacked Woman At Airport, Reinstated, Again, Receives A Year Of Back Pay For Doing Nothing… Personnel File Shows 13 Other Suspensions Or Reprimands, At Least 5 Of Which Were Suspensions In A Single 5 Year Period.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – An Atlanta Police officer fired after a woman said he unnecessarily slammed her to the ground at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has returned to the force, 11Alive News confirmed Thursday.
The entire incident two years ago was captured on an airport surveillance tape and shows Officer Terrance Alexander approaching Diana Dietrich-Barnes for leaving her vehicle in a no-parking zone. The tape showed Alexander and Dietrich-Barnes in an altercation after he was struck with her passenger-side mirror, but both sides differed on just what happened next. Dietrich-Barnes said the officer body slammed her to the ground while the officer said she was placed there carefully after disobeying his order to move her vehicle.
A department spokesperson told 11Alive’s Elaine Reyes that Officer Alexander returned to the department in June after a civil service board said the firing was unjustified and a judge agreed. Alexander is technically on medical leave but is assigned to the central records department at police headquarters.
Alexander’s personnel file showed that managers had reprimanded or suspended him 13 times without pay for violating department rules. Chief Richard Pennington said that contributed to his decision to fire Alexander. A judge ruled that the police department must pay the officer the salary he missed within the past year.
Deitrich-Barnes settled a lawsuit with the city of Atlanta for $350,000.
www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=86643