Prime's Worm Hole : Leaked email: APD chief blindsided by officer charges, agencies end support in Atlanta

Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Leaked email: APD chief blindsided by officer charges, agencies end support in Atlanta

And in local news, the first thing this morning. More news from Atlanta's protests and the recent actions and reactions to what is and isn't being done to stop the violence.

On Saturday night in downtown Atlanta, a number of Atlanta police officers were involved in an arrest that made national headlines. The arrest involved an automobile that had refused to stop for officers. And when it was finally was stopped, the occupants locked the doors and refused to open the car doors for officers.

The officers responded by forcing entry and when the occupants continued to refuse to obey officers commands, they were both tazed with controlled energy weapons.

Subsequent to that arrest? Two of those officers were fired by the chief of police and the mayor 48 hours later. And 48 hours after that? Those two officers and four others, were identified by Fulton County DA Paul Howard, for criminal charges. D.A. Howard citing criminal damage to property charges, to aggravated assault.

And as a result of those actions by the Fulton County DA. Other metro agencies who had previously sent their officers into the city to assist and support the Atlanta Police during these riots, have now determined that they no longer are in any position to assist the city. And they have withdrawn their support of the City of Atlanta. No more mutual aid for Atlanta now, as other agencies will not see their officers subjected to arbitrary and political prosecution, by a rogue and racist DA.

Atlanta police chief, Chief Erica Shields? Has responded to the media, who now has a copy of the email she sent, advising her officers and the city of Atlanta, of the decision of these other metro agencies to withdraw their support. Chief Shields now claims? That she "was blind sided" by this news of prosecution of the six officers. And she went further, to state that DA Howard never discussed filing criminal charges against the officers with her or anyone else in the department.

Which is odd? Because? How would Howard know who the officers involved were? Absent the aid and cooperation of the Atlanta police department.

Residents of the city of Atlanta can make their own determination of the facts, but one set of facts remain. The officers now fired and criminally charged for their actions? Were in fact following accepted and documented departmental protocols, for the use of force and the use of controlled energy weapons.

Their crime? Failing to kiss the protestors and rioters and looters ass, and failing to allow them to rampage at will through the city. And as a result of the city and the DA's actions against these six officers? The city of Atlanta, is now on it's own. No other metro agencies, feels safe or comfortable, sending their officers to support Atlanta.

ATLANTA — Atlanta Police Chief Ericka Shields sent an email to the department Tuesday night, indicating she was blindsided by criminal charges filed in the case of six officers.

Those officers are facing excessive force charges in a Saturday night arrest of two Atlanta college students who were pulled from their cars during Saturday night protests.

Stay with Channel 2 Action News for any new updates on this developing story

Chief Shields also indicated the department had lost tactical support because of the newly filed charges.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard filed charges against the six officers Tuesday. The remaining four are on administrative leave. They’re expected to turn themselves in by Friday.

Chief Shields email reads as follows.

Yes, it sucks, and I am beyond discouraged- I’ve been there, and I know just how hard this job is. But if we are ever going to change the narrative around policing, we must be committed to being accountable always, regardless of the situation or the additional stress it may bring,” Shields wrote.

She went on and described how she didn’t know criminal charges would be filed.

“Our intention was to carry out an administrative investigation into the actions of the other officers on scene; criminal charges were never part of any discussion that I had with the Mayor or her administration.

The criminal piece was brought to my attention yesterday through a fellow employee. Upon receiving the information, I called the DA and strongly expressed my concern, both to the appropriateness and the timing of any charges. Now that the charges have been announced, I’m very concerned with the space we find ourselves in, both tactically and emotionally. Multiple agencies that were assisting us in managing this incredibly volatile time have pulled out, effective immediately. They are not comfortable with their employees being leveraged politically by the potential of also facing criminal charges.”

She signs off with this:

“I am providing you with this level of detail because you need to know what is going on if there is any chance of us navigating our current state safely. The officers were fired because I felt that is what had to occur. This does not mean for a moment that I will sit quietly by and watch our employees get swept up in the tsunami of political jockeying during an election year. Stay strong and know that we will find better days ahead. -- Chief Shields”

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This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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when you are leaving
for the places they can
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Be not ashamed to say
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though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
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when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
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you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

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The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.