Police officers who flipped a coin to determine speeding woman's arrest fired

[Eugene]

Source: WXIA-TV

Police officers who flipped a coin to determine speeding woman's arrest fired

USA TODAY NETWORK Tim Darnell, WXIA-TV, Atlanta Published 5:54 a.m. ET July 27, 2018 | Updated 8:03 a.m. ET July 27, 2018

ROSWELL, Ga. — Two Georgia police officers who were caught on video flipping a virtual coin to determine if a speeding motorist would go to jail were fired Thursday morning.

In a story first reported by WXIA, the video showed what happened after Sarah Webb was pulled over for allegedly speeding past a Roswell police cruiser last April.

In the body camera video, officers Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson are heard discussing what they should with Webb. Brown, who had added a reckless driving charge because of wet pavement, tells Wilson that she didn't have speed detection. Wilson says she doesn't have any tickets.

That's when Brown opened a coin flip app on her phone. “A (arrest) head, R (release) tail," Wilson says.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/27/georgia-police-officers-flipped-coin-over-womans-arrest-fired/847470002/

[Towlie]

1. "Justice is only a roll of the dice. A flip of the coin."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089530/quotes/qt1402616

"All our lives hang by a thread. Now we got a man waiting for sentence. But ain't it the truth: you take your chances with the law, justice is only a roll of the dice. A flip of the coin. A turn... of the Wheel."