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Title: Woman Dies While on Phone with 9-1-1. Cop Chooses to Go to Lunch Instead of Respond to Call
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wo ... op-chooses-lunch-respond-call/
Published: Mar 20, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-03-20 19:27:26 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2778
Comments: 30
Lee County, FL — A woman is dead, and a deputy is on paid vacation after deciding to go to lunch instead of respond to a 9-1-1 call. Sheriff Micke Scott thinks his deputy should be fired for not showing up. At approximately 1:00 pm someone called 9-1-1 and dispatchers say that the person on the other end of the phone was silent. It would later be discovered that it was 47-year-old Gwen Minis calling. She had just gotten out of the hospital after suffering from a heart attack. Minis’ brother found his sister lying face down with ants crawling all over her body. She had her phone in one hand and a bottle of pills in the other. It would be nearly an hour before any “help” would show up. Sadly, this would prove to be far too late for Gwen Minis. When the call came in, it was immediately dispatched by the operator. “We know that we dispatched a 9-1-1 call, we know that it was a valid call,” said Scott. Operators stayed on the line, and a deputy named Yvan Fernandez was dispatched, according to WINK News. Fernandez claimed to be on the way to the call, but this proved to be a lie. According to the sheriff’s investigation, it appears that Fernandez instead went to lunch. “I need to confirm whether or not whether he was physically at the restaurant when the call came to him or whether he had not yet made it to the restaurant and was still en route,” said Scott. Not until 30 minutes into the call was another deputy dispatched. But before any help arrived, family and friends had already found Minis’ lifeless body lying on the ground. “Immediately upon learning of this, I took his gun, his badge and his vehicle and put him on what we call administrative leave with pay,” said Scott. A common response to the question of “Why do you pay taxes?” usually includes something about roads and police. The response is normally along the lines of, “well if we didn’t pay taxes, who would protect us and do the job of the police?” Unfortunately, the idea that police protect you is a misconception as they will seldom prevent the loss of life. In the case of Gwen Minis, an officer’s appetite won out over his sworn duty to “protect and serve.” Had the call been about an illegal plant or suspicious amounts of cash, would Fernandez still have blown it off?
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
"Paid vacation" Most patriotic and constitutional people believe in the constitutional standard of no punative action before DUE PROCESS... Unless you are a liberal cop blocker. Any other constitutional protections you disagree with?
Non-cop peons are charged and held in jail or bond is posted. Cops get a paid vacation. If he was a soldier (isn't that what you cops like to call yourselves) he would be charged with dereliction of duty.
Nice spin. We were talking about termination of a job and loss of pay, without due process... not the issue of bail. Nice try tho. When Deckard has an accident, drunk... and refuses to give blood, is arrested, he gets a tiny blurb in the paper... and keeps his broadcasting station job, that's due process. If Deckard is a politician, and the same happens 3 weeks prior to reelection, he still keeps his paid job... until his ass is voted out. That's also due process. lol When a cop gets arrested for the same... he gets front page, half page article... gets suspended from his job right away... and then some constitution hating hypocrites would like him punished further, before trial. That's a cop blockers Due process.
The guy didn't respond to a call. He should be fired. Not paid leave. You can fire someone without having to go to trial first.
The guy didn't respond to a call. He should be fired. Not paid leave. You can fire someone without having to go to trial first. This is true in some cases... but not most. Most department discipline proceedures are actually CONTRACTUAL... and the department or chief is bound to follow the agreement. My department, for example, if this were to be alleged, the officer would be "suspended pending termination"... the officer would not be paid for the first 90 days of the suspension... but he would be paid after that if the officer hasn't been found guilty of a criminal charge and the union attorneys are fighting the allegation. These legal battles take years and is expensive for the department to pay an officer not working and the department ISN'T able to rehire a new officer until the suspended one resigns or its been ruled by an administration judge, that he should be fired, after a hearing. This is why so many criminal shit bag officers never get charged for their crimes, because most departments opt to take a resignation, QUICKLY, in lieu of a costly battle that takes years. Now, I agree there should be a more streamlined way to remove bad officers, but you won't find a job where the employee gets more false allegations than a LEO. Now, my point to Mr. Yellow journalism is this, his news source has to shade that article in many bad lights to make their bias points... one of them is shitting on due process. Secondly, the last paragraph tells all. The article, like EVERY Deckard article, was obviously written to give legal drugs for all a final advertised plug.
Gotta love those corrupt police unions. A cop is charged with a crime? Hey, no problem - give him two weeks PAID vacation.
You were paid after your DWI accident... don't be a hypocrite.
Never had one asshole, and if I did you can bet there would be no paid vacation.
I haven't called you a single derogatory name... since posting here. Why must you make a trailer park out of the forum? Are you trying to tell all these people you've never been arrested? lol
Gotta say, GI -- it has not gone unnoticed that you've posted in a respectful manner. Thank God for retirement/rehab. ;-)
I haven't called you a single derogatory name... since posting here. Gotta say, GI -- it has not gone unnoticed that you've posted in a respectful manner. Thank God for retirement/rehab. ;-) I've calmed via retirement. Besides, Stone doesn't deserve to have his forum ruined. Now, if I can only get a few of the forums biggest anarchists to act more like law abiding, civil posters.
#27. To: GrandIsland (#25)
Well, I personally welcome and respect your change in tone and demeanor. As to others (including "anarchists"), the rifts, scars, and resentments runs deep -- frankly on both sides. It's not always so easy to give the benefit of doubt and compromise for some.
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#2. To: GrandIsland (#1)
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Most patriotic and constitutional people believe in the constitutional standard of no punative action before DUE PROCESS... Unless you are a liberal cop blocker.
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
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Non-cop peons are charged and held in jail or bond is posted.
#16. To: GrandIsland (#3)
#17. To: A K A Stone (#16)
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#18. To: GrandIsland (#17)
Most department discipline proceedures are actually CONTRACTUAL...
#19. To: Deckard (#18)
A cop is charged with a crime? Hey, no problem - give him two weeks PAID vacation.
#20. To: GrandIsland (#19)
You were paid after your DWI accident...
#21. To: Deckard (#20)
#23. To: GrandIsland, Deckard (#21)
I haven't called you a single derogatory name... since posting here.
#25. To: Liberator (#23)
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