U.S. Park Police Officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar in 2017 have been on paid administrative leave for six years. They're now suing the Interior Department.
U.S. Park Police Officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar in 2017 have been on paid administrative leave for six years. They're now suing the Interior Department.
Officers Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya have been on paid leave for more than six years, despite being cleared by the courts of any legal wrongdoing.
Kelly Ghaisar said of the officers’ suit, “I find this filing appalling.” She said the officers “not only were not prosecuted but rewarded with years of paid vacation while Bijan was shot in the head for a fender bender,” and “the fact that Amaya and Vinyard are with their families, with full pay and benefits, and not in jail is a middle finger to justice.”
They're getting FULL PAY AND BENEFITS? Fox SIX YEARS? My tax dollars are paying for this?!
Ain't America grand?
Law enforcement unions dude. The only kind conservatives like.
“the officers continue to remain on administrative leave with significant career and financial consequences, including damage to their reputation, loss of overtime pay, and the ongoing stress”
Oh fuck all the way off.
"Hey uh, we shot that guy 6 years ago, let us be cops again already"
If I got a six year paid vacation with no end in sight I would shut the fuck up. These guys must truly love being cops.
Did you ever have a career counselor/teacher in high school ask what you’d do if you won the lottery? People with empathy say things like grow a garden, help the less fortunate, or read more.
These guys both answered "be a cop."
"Those minorities ain't gonna kill themselves, amiright?" - these douches probably.
That's six whole years of not getting to murder people. It's completely unfair to these guys who signed up to murder people. Let them murder!
If you offered to let me have six years where I didn't have to work and still got paid, I'd probably do some volunteer work or something with the extra time. Try to better my community. You know, do shit that we all wish we had the extra time and energy to do but realistically don't. I wouldn't fight it. But then, I don't like to murder people.
They should be thankful they are not in prison like normal people for murder.
Well "normal people" of a certain social standing and income level.
Two quotes from the article:
Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya, who have been on paid leave for more than six years, seek decision on whether they will be fired.
“While the [Interior] Department refuses to act,” attorneys Daniel S. Crowley and Katelyn A. Clarke wrote for the officers, “the officers continue to remain on administrative leave with significant career and financial consequences, including damage to their reputation, loss of overtime pay, and the ongoing stress” caused by the unresolved employment action.
I suppose while I would enjoy a 6 year paid vacation from work, I would probably not enjoy not receiving any promotions during that time. They are federal, so they probably do get COLA increases.
Assuming conflict of interest rules/terms of the suspension allow it, I’m surprised they didn’t seek secondary employment, or even attempt to relaunch their careers at another employer or in another field and simply quit before they get fired. (They’ll probably be listed as a do not rehire, but they won’t have to tell future employers they got fired.)These are not common names. A short period of time on a search engine will end many job opportunities.
And now they've pushed the SEO more.
Oh, I know. I forgot to include that in my comment, but they could have used those years to find employ that didn’t care about headlines. Or like, became Fox News cringe commentators.
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