AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Again Stupidity Rules. Is it in the water?

Posted in Greensboro City Council

Dec. 28, 2007 at 10:12

by BrendaBee

"Contact: Assistant Chief Gary Hastings
Phone: (336) 373-2450

Update: Three Police Officers Suspended

GREENSBORO  (December 27, 2007)  Per Council's decision today, we are releasing the following information.

On December 18, 2007, the Criminal Investigation Division was notified by the Internal Affairs Section of an allegation of a sexual assault that occurred sometime between 11 pm on December 14, 2007 and 1 am on December 15, 2007. The complainant is a Greensboro Police Officer who was off-duty at the time of the reported incident. The suspects are Greensboro Police Officers assigned to the Tactical Special Enforcement Team.

The victim alleges that she and a friend were leaving the area of Four Seasons Town Center when they encountered the three on-duty officers who offered to give them a ride home. The victim and her companion accepted the ride. It was during the time that they were in transit that the victim alleges the assault occurred.

The case was assigned to a detective in the Criminal Investigations Division who is currently conducting a follow up investigation.

The investigation is continuing. An administrative investigation will also be conducted by the Internal Affairs Section."


“The off-duty officer told the Internal Affairs Section that she and a friend were leaving the area of Four Seasons Town Centre when they encountered the three on-duty officers who offered to give them a ride home, Hastings said.

The woman told investigators she was sexually assaulted while in the vehicle, Hastings said.

It is the police department's policy not to release the names of anyone who reports being sexually assaulted.

Sgt. A.S. Wallace, 43; Officer J.O. LeGrand, 37; and Officer C.S. Stevens, 42 were suspended on Dec. 18 in connection with this investigation. “

“The police department initially refused to release the time, date, location, and reported violation of the law, claiming that because the suspects are city employees, the information was protected by personnel laws.

The City Council invoked its authority to release confidential personnel information if its release is in the best interest of the public.”

“You see, the alleged assault case began with a phone call made from Fifth Season, a cheesy club on High Point Road, to Greensboro Police Officers. The call to the Greensboro Police Officers was allegedly made by two females, one of which is a Greensboro Police Officer. Allegedly, the females were out drinking and dancing and called the police that were ON DUTY when they got bored or were ready to go. Then, it has been alleged that the three ON DUTY Officers drove a city vehicle to Fifth Seasons to meet the two females that called them. The three ON DUTY Officers invited the females into the city owned vehicle. Now, let's just stop right there for now.

Three alleged Police Officers were on duty driving a city vehicle around and decided they had time to go to Fifth Season to pick up two females. All of the officers suspended are on T-SET, which is a team of officers that work to suppress street level drug related crimes. They also help with man hunts and search warrants. They do some very serious stuff. But, last weekend (wink) a Sgt and two officers from T-Set took time to go visit two females at a club. Somehow, after the females entered the police van, a sexual assault took place.”

I have found Ben's reporting to ALWAYS be more accurate than any we get from other sources so I  am going to believe his to be the most accurate considering there are several conflicting  items in all the accounts.

There is, or should also always be, some doubt about a charge of sexual assault.  In recent years after it became permissible for women to lodge sexual assault claims  men were more often than not unfairly assumed guilty.   (I might point out here that  thru out history to this point women were blamed for any sexual assault committed in case any of you out there have forgotten.  It was assumed the woman had “asked to be raped” by her actions or dress or just because she was in a place she should not have been in.) 

Now I go back to what I have said all along, this is another example of utter stupidity!  If the information had been reported in the beginning as it is with any other person so accused then it would have been fish wrap the next day. 

The charge of  sexual assault   is a criminal act if true.  It was not an internal police matter even tho those involved were all police officers.  Police officers and other city employees who are charged with criminal actions are not allowed to be afforded special treatment because of their position.  So once again the City Manager. with the aid of the city Legal Department, has  blundered the City of Greensboro  into a fiasco.


Mitchell Johnson is so under qualified for the position of City Manager, and I would have to say several other positions that he held,  that it boggles the mind to understand how he was promoted all along.   Was it friendly faces in high places or was it a city employee bought and paid for by special interests with the power to dictate?  Whatever, it certainly was not competence.

 Tim Bellamy is in far over his head and ability, but unfortunately for the citizens of Greensboro he was the last man standing after Mitch and Linda took a hatchet to the GPD command staff.  I highly suspect he was the “leak” within the command staff that David Wray was aware of having.  He may not have been one of the “dirty cops” but he certainly knew who they were and he did nothing to curb their behavior even when they were under his command even before becoming the Police Chief.   So one could say he too is bought and paid for by the powers and special interest who are protecting the “dirty cops”.  I have been put down for my so called “conspiracy theories”, but it is impossible not to know there are forces behind the actions of all of these visible people  even if you are not following the Jerry Bledsoe series “Cops in Black and White”.  So  many incompetents do not  work towards the same goals by accident.

Linda Miles had a vendetta against Wray for some reason and was   (according to the attorney for the Black police officers making charges against Wray stated in his letter to the City Council) looking for “dirt” on Wray.  She and Mitch had a very unusual relationship which she claimed was almost like a “marriage”.  No city manager of competence would need to rely so much on the city attorney.  Key word “competence”. 

The city legal department now is simply a joke.  BB

2 Comments | Post Comment | Email This

---

Dec. 28, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Roch101
"I have found Ben's reporting to ALWAYS be more accurate than any we get from other sources..."

Always?

http://thetroublemaker.blogspot.com/2007/12/update-on-blair-carrs-dui.html
Posted by Roch101

Dec. 28, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Read the entire statement Roch! This thing you have of taking one word or phrase out of context is what I find so difficult to understand coming from an otherwise intelligent man.

And yes, ALWAYS might just as well apply here when compared to the horse manure we are consistently fed by our elected officials and those the elected officials are supposed to be in charge of. BB
Posted by BrendaFayBowers