Cop Gets Fired

Oh, good, you’re thinking. Finally. A police officer is being held to account for bad behaviour.

So, did he get fired for shooting a man in the back of the head while being choked from behind?

No.

Did he get fired for tasering to death a distraught immigrant?

Uh-uh.

How about tasering pregnant women?

Nope.

In Illinois, a cop was fired for harassing fetus fetishists.

A veteran Des Plaines police officer was fired Monday for verbally and physically harassing anti-abortion protesters last year outside a clinic.
Acting on a recommendation from Police Chief James Prandini, the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners voted unanimously to fire Officer Dick Lalowski.
“This was an important case for us,” Prandini said after the decision. “It sets the tone for our conduct. We can’t have officers treat people like this.”
The department alleged that while on duty in May 2006, Lalowski confronted a group of women as they were gathering outside the American Women’s Medical Center on South River Road. Though the protesters were not interfering with the clinic’s operations, Lalowski threatened to arrest them if they made contact with anyone, the department alleged.
After he was off duty, Lalowski returned in civilian clothes and confronted the protesters, calling one a “fat [expletive] cow,” the department alleged.
. . .
Lalowski did not attend Monday’s meeting. Richard Reimer, one of his lawyers, said he was disappointed by the decision.
“The guy had a good career here,” Reimer said. “I think there could have been another decision short of discharge. They could have given him a lengthy suspension.”
Reimer contended that Lalowski, who is receiving disability payments, has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since shooting and killing a man while on duty in 1995. The graphic signs of aborted fetuses that were carried by protesters triggered the disorder, he said.
Reimer also denied that Lalowski had harassed the protesters and said the officer’s comments to protesters were protected by the constitutional right to free speech.
“He was having a serious conversation with them, which was misconstrued,” Reimer said.

There. Now you know how to get a cop fired.