Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams failed to investigate officers' trophy for shooting protester

[Nevilledog]

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Dave Biscobing
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BREAKING: @ABC15 has obtained protions of the second outside investigaiton into the challenge coin.

Wasn't just coins. T-shirts. Patches. And they sat openly in a box in a downtown police station.
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Chief Jeri Williams failed to investigate officers’ trophy for shooting protester
Chief Jeri Williams and other top department leaders failed for years to investigate a controversial challenge coin circulating among the ranks that celebrated officers shooting a protester in the...
abc15.com
11:03 AM · Aug 12, 2021

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/protest-arrests/chief-jeri-williams-failed-to-investigate-officers-trophy-for-shooting-protester


Despite specific and clear knowledge, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and other top department leaders failed for years to investigate a controversial challenge coin circulating among the ranks that celebrated officers shooting a protester in the groin with a pepper ball, according to an outside investigation obtained by ABC15.

The investigation was completed by Ballard Spahr, a law firm hired to look into the matter after an ABC15 report exposed the coin’s existence and its ties to hate speech. The law firm also was hired to probe Phoenix’s role in charging protesters as a criminal street gang.

According to investigators, officers not only sold and traded the challenge coins, they also had patches and t-shirts. The “memorabilia” was also readily available in an open box in a “high-traffic area” of a downtown Phoenix police station.

“As discussed above, no official investigation was completed until Ballard Spahr was retained, nearly four yeas after the coin’s creation,” the law firm found.

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[msongs]

1. organized crime nt

[stillcool]

2. Plausible deniability is great...

not likely those celebrated officers will roll on their own.

[TheRealNorth]

3. Minneapolis PD did the same thing....

For the George Floyd riots.. Which is ironic because until the National Guard showed up, the Minneapolis police were hiding in their stations, and people had to patrol their own neighborhoods.

[gratuitous]

4. Coins, t-shirts, patches - no coffee cups?

Whose budget paid for this gruesome memorabilia? But for the love of all that's holy, don't anyone even breathe a word about de-funding the police.

[ChazII]

5. She is giving herself a one

day suspension according to abc 15.