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Cop fired after $500 goes missing from homicide victim’s wallet
An Atlanta police officer has been axed for allegedly mishandling $500 in cash from a homicide victim’s wallet, authorities said.
Officer Keisha Richburg’s body cam footage released by the Atlanta Police Department shows the alleged incident unfolding on June 19th at the scene of a shooting in Marietta Road near the Inman Rail Yard.
The footage shows EMT Kevin Geter tucking the money inside of the wallet of the 29-year-old victim, Jamel Harris, then handing it off to Richburg.
When she handles the wallet in her squad car, the cash cannot be seen in the slot that Geter had allegedly placed the money inside, the video shows.
When “Officer Richburg transfers the victim’s wallet from her right hand to her left hand; it is readily apparent the money is no longer tucked inside the wallet,” a police report on the incident reads.
Geter confirmed to internal affairs investigators that he gave Richburg the wallet with cash inside, according to 11Alive.
“I’m about 90% sure it was money…cause it was – it was kinda like a – you know, like money would be folded in half. Um, and I can’t imagine it being anything else,” he said.
Later, the video shows Richburg handing off the empty wallet to a homicide-unit sergeant at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Harris, who suffered from a gunshot wound to the head later died from his injuries at the hospital. An-Nur Green, 43, was arrested for fatally shooting Harris over of an argument, police said.
“Officer integrity goes to the heart of what we do here every single day,” Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said in a statement. “It’s extremely disappointing to see the victim of a fatal shooting be victimized twice by the actions of one of our officers.”
An Atlanta Police department spokesperson told The Post that Richburg did not properly account for the money according to the department’s policies and procedures. An administrative investigation was not able to determine what happened to the cash.
Shields fired Richburg on Monday.
A regional director for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers told NBC Newsthat the department hasn’t “proven that she had the money or took the money.”
Richburg is disputing the department’s claim and attempting to appeal her termination.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/11/cop-fired-after-500-goes-missing-from-homicide-victims-wallet/
Photo Credit: Atlanta Police Department
Woman assaults cops, EMT after losing money to pinball machine in bowling alley
A dangerously drunk Monroe woman assaulted police officers and an EMT after she lost money to a pinball machine at a Pennsylvania bowling alley.
Kilee Nicole Cunningham, 36, was asked to leave Blue Mountain Lanes on Moorestown Road Sunday night after she punched the glass of a pinball machine despite being reimbursed for the money.
Cunningham instead asked for more alcohol and chucked a cup of water in the face of an employee when he refused, Lehigh Valley Live reported.
When officers arrived at the scene to speak with her, she was uncooperative and they attempted to take her into custody for public drunkenness.
While restrained in handcuffs in a police vehicle, Cunningham unbuckled her seatbelt and continued to resist officers. She kicked an officer in the chest and headbutted him for trying to return her to the vehicle.
At the Slate Belt Regional police headquarters, she kicked an officer who tried to place her in a holding cell.
Officers requested emergency personnel to take her to a hospital for her severe intoxication.
Cunningham resisted EMTs trying to get her into an ambulance and had to have a spit hood put on her. While inside the ambulance she bit an EMT on the forearm so hard that it left marks.
She was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of simple assault, one count of resisting arrest and three related offenses, according to Lehigh Valley Live.
Cunningham was arraigned and is being held in Northampton County Prison in lieu of a $30,000 bail.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/20/woman-assaults-cops-emt-after-losing-money-to-pinball-machine/
Boy calls 911 for help with his math homework — and gets it
She’s ready for any emergency — even a math meltdown!
A 911 dispatcher in Indiana sprang to the rescue when a boy called, frantically needing help with his mind-numbing math homework, according to NBC News.
“I had a really bad day, and, I just don’t know,” the unnamed kid told Antonia Bundy, who works for the Lafayette Police, on Jan. 14.
Instead of blowing him off, Bundy asked him how she could help.
“What happened at school that made you have a bad day?” she said, according to a tape of the call, cited by the station.
“I just have tons of homework,” he said. One of the math problems — which centered on fractions — was “so hard,” he said.
When the dispatcher walked him through how to solve it, he thanked her, and apologized.
“I’m sorry for calling you, but I really needed help,” the boy said.
Lafayette Police Sgt. Matt Gard later said it had been a slow day.
“[Dispatchers] do receive some oddball requests,” he said. “But this situation of calling asking for homework help — I’ve been in law enforcement for 13 years and I don’t know I’ve ever heard of this happening.” He called her a “dedicated” worker with a big heart.
The only minus? There are better places to call for help with math, he said.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/01/28/boy-calls-911-for-help-with-his-math-homework-and-gets-it/
photo credit: 911 dispatcher Antonia Bundy Facebook
Black grandson riding with white grandma gets mistaken for robbery suspect
A black man headed home from church with his white grandmother was taken into custody by police in Wisconsin after two witnesses falsely reported that he was robbing her.
Attorney Joy Bertrand believes the 18-year-old man who was detained for roughly six minutes by police in Wauwatosa on Sunday was harassed, and the lawyer has requested all documents pertaining to the traffic stop, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
“After we take a look at whatever basis they have for stopping and harassing this family, we will be able to comment further,” Bertrand told the newspaper.
Police officials said in a statement that an officer was flagged down by a black couple who indicated that a robbery was either in progress or had just taken place. The suspect was a black male in the back seat of a blue Lexus, the couple reported, according to police.
“The citizen pointed out the car to the officer,” the statement continued. “A traffic stop was conducted. A non-approach traffic stop was made, in which the officer called the back seat passenger (who was said to be the robbery suspect by the citizen) back to officers instead of the officers approaching the car.”
The 18-year-old man — identified by the newspaper as Akil Carter — was then detained “based on reasonable suspicion” for approximately six minutes as an investigation ensued. Carter and the other occupants of the vehicle were then allowed to leave. The person who reported the allegations to police, however, did not stay in the area as requested by officers and has yet to be located to get a formal statement, police said.
“Officers removed their handgun from their holsters based on the original information of a possible violent crime (robbery) in progress, but kept their weapons pointed in a safe direction during the stop. The officers acted professionally during the entire interaction.”
But Carter was actually inside the car with his grandmother and her friend. They were on their way home from church at the time, Bertrand told the newspaper.
Carter’s grandmother can be heard in squad-car footage released by the department surmising exactly what she thought the man who reported the purported robbery had been thinking.
“I’m sure he saw two old white ladies in a car with a black kid and made some assumptions,” Carter’s grandmother told the officer, who apologized on behalf of the man.
Carter, who was released without incident, declined to comment to the Journal Sentinel. Bertrand said Carter is currently keeping “all options” on the table, including filing a lawsuit against the department.
“It seems to me that the police officers’ suspicion that this car was involved in a crime dissipates when his grandmother said, ‘He’s with me,’ if they had a suspicion to begin with,” Bertrand told The Post.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/black-teen-riding-with-white-grandma-gets-mistaken-as-robbery-suspect/