Atlanta Unfiltered reports former DeKalb County police chief Terrell Bolton testified at an administrative hearing yesterday that county rules forbidding comp time for police executives did not apply to him.
“I was unique in that I had a special arrangement with the person who hired me as part of my compensation package,” Bolton testified. “He supersedes any rule or regulation, basically.”
Read the rest at Atlanta Unfiltered.
Former DeKalb County Police Chief Terrell Bolton stopped by his old office last night to pack his things before he begins his legal battle with the county. If you recall, DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis recently fired Bolton, which the former chief says he’ll contest.
The AJC has lots of details about what’s going down and what’s set to happen, but I always crack up when I read things like this:
“I was looking for things that would help my case,” Bolton said as he rushed past news cameras after emerging at 1 a.m. Friday. “Thank you. Bye-bye.”
Recent headlines:He walked briskly to a Cadillac that pulled up in front of the DeKalb County Public Safety complex. The car drove off as soon as he got in.
There’s always a waiting Cadillac! If you were the driver of this car and somehow reading this, send me a line. I want to know what music played as you drove off.
If you’ve ever visited the DeKalb County Police Department’s website, you know it’s a treasure trove of lo-fi rap loops that surely scare the bejesus out of criminals and confuse the hell out of taxpayers. But the tunes always made us smile. ytcracker — the “undisputed king of nerdcore” — heard the beats and found inspiration.
Preston at Kiss Atlanta writes:
ytcracker… nerdcore rapper, hacker, and founder of Digital Gangster (you can thank that board and it’s members for the hack of Miley Cyrus)… went and recorded an entire album based on the music from the DPD website. Even more impressive, he did it in less than 10 hours, it’s profanity free, and the lyrics are fucking hillarious. My favorite, hands down, is “executive_command.html”
Six profanity-free tracks, each one inspired by the different part of the site where the loops could be heard. Awesome.
The department has since removed the loops from its website, but they’re preserved for time eternal on the Internet. Listen to ‘em here. A free download of the entire album is available here.
About 50 people showed up today at Woodruff Park in support of National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality.
One of the protesters was Iffat Muhammad Walker, whose brother Abraheem Muhammad was unarmed when he was shot in the head and killed during a confrontation with a DeKalb police officer in August 2006. The police report said that Muhammad had pushed an officer against a wall who had come to investigate a report of trespassing in an apartment complex at 3800 Flat Shoals Parkway and that the weapon discharged during the struggle, according to the AJC. A DeKalb County Internal Review Board later ruled that either Muhammad had pulled the trigger while attempting to shoot the officer or that the gun went off during a struggle.
Iffat says that the police report does not make sense and questions how her brother could have shot himself in the face. She also questions why the police are in charge of investigating their fellow officer. “It does not make sense. It’s like if I commit a crime and I investigate myself.”
Her brother’s case was one of twelve cases in which an officer fatally shot someone in DeKalb County in 2006, according to the AJC. In 10 of the 12 cases, the Internal Review board ruled the fatal shootings justified. In another fatal case, in which a suspect was beaten with a baton, pepper sprayed and later stopped breathing, the board found that the officers did not contribute to the death.
“We really want to know what happened, “ Iffat said during the rally. “I remember him as a very kind person. I dressed him for his funeral and that is the last time I saw him.”
(Photo of Iffat Muhammad Walker at the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality at Woodruff Park)
