Officers fired, charged after allegedly beating man and calling him "fake American"

[workinclasszero]

By CRIMESIDER STAFF CBS NEWS July 26, 2018, 3:11 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- Two rookie New Orleans police officers were fired and charged with battery in the beating of a man they allegedly called a "fake American" following a confrontation at a bar. Spencer Sutton and John Galman were booked on one count each of simple battery in connection with the beating of Jorge Alberto "George" Gomez early Tuesday, reports CBS affiliate WWL-TV.

Gomez said the two off-duty officers, who are white, began harassing him inside Mid-City Yacht Club, saying they didn't like his camouflage clothing and asking him whether he had served in the military, reports the New Orleans Advocate. Gomez said he told the men he was born in the U.S. but was raised in Honduras before he returned to live in New Orleans and served in the National Guard, but the men wouldn't accept his answer.

George Gomez/WWLTV

WWL-TV confirmed that Gomez, who is Hispanic, served with the Louisiana National Guard.

Gomez told The New Orleans Advocate that officers asked him whether he was an American.
"They kept telling me I wasn't an American citizen, that I was a fake American," Gomez told the Advocate.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officers-fired-charged-after-allegedly-beating-man-and-calling-him-fake-american/

[uponit7771]

1. I wish some cities will stop hiring thuggish cops

[dalton99a]

3. +1. They've probably already received job offers

[Blue_true]

4. Or hire officers that better represent the people they are supposed to serve.

I guess that neither of those jerks have a home in New Orleans, they likely worked then drove home to some place with people more like them. In most of the South, due to lack of industry and right to work laws, police and firefighter jobs are some of the better standard wage jobs around. The only people making more are higher managers (district, regional), successful business owners and medical industry workers.

[uponit7771]

5. This too, it should be requirement that they have ties to the neighborhood

[Blue_true]

7. Police and firefighter Unions fight that tooth and nails.

A few year back, some places became innovative, offering reduced rate homes for cops and firefighters that chose to live in the town that they worked in. I don't know how successful that was. Where I live, I do see a lot of county cops living in the county, they can take their cars home with them if they chose to. I don't know much about city cops because they can't take their cars home with them.

I think in big cities, administrations should start a program where all new hires must live in the city and maintain a primary residence there as long as they work for the police and fire departments. This would grandfather in people that don't, but also insure that in a little over a decade, most cops and firefighters will be city residents and do things like shop and send their kids to school there.

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[dalton99a]

2. Good riddance to MAGA trash

[Permanut]

6. Which qualifies them for employment in the security department at Mar a Lago.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Here are the 2 pricks:

[Tipperary]

10. Wow, the one on the left looks amazingly like one of the Rodney King beaters. I cannot remember

his name. This fellow looks just like him.

[nolabear]

9. This has been all over New Orleans news for days.

Y’all who know me know I grew up in and around New Orleans and it’s my heart. The police situation in the city has forever been a strange reflection of its governmental code since the 1600s, “An honest politician is one that stays bought.” They’re weirdly loyal to the place and culture in many ways and corrupt af in others. Sometimes those things overlap.

These guys though-this is bullshit and they were fired and ostracized immediately. I really hope this doesn’t indicate a new kind of asshole coming in. The old assholes are predictable at least.

[Tipperary]

11. And it took TWO of them to beat up on this chubby man. Pathetic. Thank god they will never have

their desired career.

[nolabear]

12. I'm sure they were shitfaced. Shitfaced little monsters.

Just the kind of people actual NO cops are trained to deal with on a daily basis. Stupid rookies. I’m glad they’re gone.

[Ponietz]

13. What does steroid abuse have to do with these incidents?

[link:https://psmag.com/magazine/the-hidden-world-of-police-on-steroids|

[markses66]

14. Our well-trained constabulary

Great fucking job, fellas.

[oberliner]

15. Glad to hear they were fired and charged