Remember Myles Cosgrove? He fired the fatal round into Breonna Taylor's, and was fired by the Louisville Police Department. He appealed, but the judge reviewing the case ruled against him.
Well now, the Carroll County Sheriff's Department has hired the disgraced officer.
It appears that being a bad cop, if you are not quite bad enough to get charged with a crime, and a police force further down the food chain will hire you.
I'm not sure if they are doing this because Mr. Cosgrove still has a law enforcement certification, and so will not require them to spend any money on them, or they just get off from offending black people and anyone who wants the police to do better:
The Louisville police officer who delivered the bullet that killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020 is back working in law enforcement.
Myles Cosgrove, who was fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021, has been hired by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, Chief Deputy Rob Miller told The Courier Journal on Saturday.
The county is about an hour northeast of downtown Louisville and has a population of around 10,000.
Cosgrove was one of three officers who fired their weapons during a raid of Taylor's apartment March 13, 2020. Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep when LMPD officers attempted to serve a search warrant as part of a narcotics investigation. Walker, who has said he thought an intruder was breaking in, fired a single shot that hit an officer. Officers returned fire, with Cosgrove firing the fatal bullet, according to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's investigation.
Cosgrove was fired in January 2021 for violating use-of-force procedures and failing to use a body camera during the raid. He fired his gun 16 times. He filed a lawsuit appealing his termination, but a judge ruled in favor of the department's decision earlier this year.
………
Carroll County's Chief Deputy Miller pointed to this fact [that there were no charges files] in reference to Cosgrove's hiring.
The Sheriff's Office did a background check on Cosgrove, which he passed, Miller said. He said the federal and state investigation did not lead to charges against Cosgrove and he has nearly two decades of police experience.
"We think he will help reduce the flow of drugs in our area and reduce property crimes," he said. "We felt like he was a good candidate to help us in our county."
The man got fired for being not just a bad cop, but for being a murderously bad cop, and he is snapped up by another department, where he can continue his reign of terror.
Not good.
0 comments :
Post a Comment