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10 Atlanta cops won’t cooperate with oversight panel

3:19 pm November 4, 2009, by jgalloway

Jim Walls at Atlanta Unfiltered has come up with a fresh issue for the mayoral runoff:

Ten Atlanta police officers have refused to cooperate with investigations of alleged misconduct, and Chief Richard Pennington has failed to respond to a call for discipline in a case of excessive force against a lesbian couple, an oversight panel said in a letter released today.

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Eyes On Us

November 4th, 2009
3:46 pm

If the Police Officers did in fact use excessive force against a lesbian couple, then they should utilize the first line of complaint. Go to the Internal Affairs Division and file a formal complaint against those involved. Give it time to work, if it it does not remedy the problem, then utilize the Department Of Justice and your Local FBI Field office.

AJC default position:

November 4th, 2009
5:30 pm

Man all this sounds Racist.

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

November 5th, 2009
9:48 am

Among many “cool” and good police officers, in this Greatest City in the World we have corrupt and bad as well, with a cognizant, compromised chief from one of the worst departments in America, New Orleans.

SEJ

November 5th, 2009
11:59 am

Real simple, you don’t cooperate, you find another job. These officers are employed by the people (the city of Atlanta). This is not something that’s exceptable against Black, White, Latino, Lesbian or Gay.

I don’t know what they did but if they worked for me they would be sitting and talking or on the street looking for work.

ATL dawg, ya dig?

November 5th, 2009
5:09 pm

Kasim Reed hired Chief Pennington. Change we can believe in.

SFG

November 6th, 2009
2:05 pm

RE: “Kasim Reed hired Chief Pennington.” That’s pretty lame “ATL dawg, ya dig?” Kasim didn’t hire anyone Shirley Franklin did.