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5 Sheriff’s Deputies Suspended Following Violent Trump Rally A protester was punched last week while
5 Sheriff’s Deputies Suspended Following Violent Trump RallyA protester was punched last week while being escorted out of a rally in North Carolina. The county sheriff suspended 5 deputies for “failure to discharge their duties.”
Sheriff Earl "Moose" Butler: Cumberland County NC
13 hrs ·
We have disciplined five deputies following a professional standards investigation arising from the events at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville at the Donald Trump for president rally on Wednesday, March 9, 2016.
Three deputies were demoted in rank, and they were suspended for a period of five days each without pay for unsatisfactory performance and failing to discharge the duties and policies of the Office of Sheriff.
Two other deputies were suspended for a period of three days without pay for unsatisfactory performance and the failure to discharge their duties.
All five of the deputies have been reprimanded and placed in a probationary status for the next 12 months, and admonished not to fail to act and directed to comply with the requirements of Sheriff's Office policies concerning proper response to apparent criminal activity.
The actions of the deputies and their failures to act in situations such as that which occurred during the Trump rally at the Crown Coliseum have never been and will not ever be tolerated under the policies of this office.
In the past, these deputies have been vigilant, and have shown great bravery and fortitude, for example, when some of them encountered Andrew Michaelis, who was on a deadly shooting spree, killing his father-in-law and nephew and assaulting deputies with an assault rifle in Cumberland County on July 30, 2014.
I have taken into account the past bravery and exemplary conduct, inc
luding the life-saving and other actions of these deputies in assessing the discipline, and in imposing the sanctions.
We regret that any of the circumstances at the Trump rally occurred, and we regret that we have had to investigate all of these matters. Yet, it is our duty and responsibility to do justice, and to carefully examine not only the actions of others, but our own actions to ensure that the law and our policies are justly and fairly enforced based in principle and without other influences.
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13 hrs ·
We have disciplined five deputies following a professional standards investigation arising from the events at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville at the Donald Trump for president rally on Wednesday, March 9, 2016.
Three deputies were demoted in rank, and they were suspended for a period of five days each without pay for unsatisfactory performance and failing to discharge the duties and policies of the Office of Sheriff.
Two other deputies were suspended for a period of three days without pay for unsatisfactory performance and the failure to discharge their duties.
All five of the deputies have been reprimanded and placed in a probationary status for the next 12 months, and admonished not to fail to act and directed to comply with the requirements of Sheriff's Office policies concerning proper response to apparent criminal activity.
The actions of the deputies and their failures to act in situations such as that which occurred during the Trump rally at the Crown Coliseum have never been and will not ever be tolerated under the policies of this office.
In the past, these deputies have been vigilant, and have shown great bravery and fortitude, for example, when some of them encountered Andrew Michaelis, who was on a deadly shooting spree, killing his father-in-law and nephew and assaulting deputies with an assault rifle in Cumberland County on July 30, 2014.
I have taken into account the past bravery and exemplary conduct, inc
luding the life-saving and other actions of these deputies in assessing the discipline, and in imposing the sanctions.
We regret that any of the circumstances at the Trump rally occurred, and we regret that we have had to investigate all of these matters. Yet, it is our duty and responsibility to do justice, and to carefully examine not only the actions of others, but our own actions to ensure that the law and our policies are justly and fairly enforced based in principle and without other influences.
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