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LMPD officer suspended for Facebook posts sues chief claiming free speech violation

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RE: LMPD officer suspended for Facebook posts sues chief claiming...

June 19th, 2017 @ 8:06PM (7 years ago)

If Fischer's style is hike, bike, and paddle, Conrad's is retaliate, demote and transfer. His old college buddy didn't like how someone blew the whistle on their flawed investigation a few years ago. I hope all these cases go to a jury trial.

"He said in his suit that he had his supervisor's permission when he notified the Kentucky Innocence Project that Richard Jarrell Jr. had confessed to a murder for which Susan Jean King was serving 10 years in prison. The suit also said he got approval to pass on a copy of Jarrrell's confession. But Morgan alleged that after Kentucky State Police, who had investigated the 1998 murder, complained that Morgan was assisting the Innocence Project, a Louisville police commander "cursed" him and he was ordered to stop cooperating.

The Courier-Journal reported in 2012 that KSP had complained to Louisville Chief Steve Conrad that Morgan was trying to undermine their case and that another commander later called state police and "apologized on behalf of LMPD for Morgan sticking his nose in this."

Morgan's lawyer, Thomas Clay, who released a copy of the settlement agreement Wednesday, said the settlement amount is a "pretty clear indication" that Morgan "did the right thing in disclosing the confession" and that he was "treated abominably" by the department. Jessie Halladay, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Attorney's office, confirmed the settlement amount.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/16/louisville-pay-whistleblower-cop/7771933/

RE: LMPD officer suspended for Facebook posts sues chief claiming...

June 19th, 2017 @ 10:11PM (7 years ago)

They can't reprimand their way out of this problem. There is a root cause and that is officers being bad, bad boys. She should take a cue from the department's diversity push and offer the "whip option" like the women in all the pride parades. I'm surprised they didn't put any bondage references on the police car since that's a major part of every pride parade.

What a strange city Louisville has become.