Illinois officer resigns after not helping woman harassed for wearing Puerto Rico shirt
Source: The Hill
BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 07/12/18 09:59 AM EDT
An Illinois police officer resigned after facing public criticism for not helping a woman who was harassed for wearing a Puerto Rico flag shirt.
A now-viral video showed Officer Patrick Connor failing to intervene when a man identified as Timothy G. Trybus began to harass 24-year-old Mia Irizarry, calling her un-American for wearing a Puerto Rico shirt.
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Irizarry said she had rented out a pavilion in a Forest Preserves of Cook County park last month to celebrate her 24th birthday, CNN reported Thursday.
Trybus is seen in the video harassing her for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rico flag. She posted a video of the altercation on Facebook in June and it has since been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
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bitterross
(4,066 posts)There are lots of places where they think what he did was just fine. He'll probably even get a raise.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Either way, he sure as hell as no business being a law enforcement officer of any kind. But you are right. He'll be a cop again before ya know it.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)In Mia Irizarrys video, Officer Patrick Connor tells her that he didnt intervene because Trybus is a regular and doesnt have a violent history. He also said hes not a threat, but just a big mouth. She can be heard telling Connor, but anything is possible, to which he acknowledges, youre right.
But public records show that in 2006, Trybus was charged in Cook County with battery (causing bodily harm) and domestic battery. In November 2006, he was sentenced to 120 days in Cook County Jail. Details of that case were not immediately available.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Trybus criminal history goes back farther than that. Trybus was arrested in 1997 and charged with criminal trespass a few days after an order of protection was filed against him. He was also charged with domestic battery that same year, but both cases were later dropped, along with the protective order, the newspaper reports. He was charged with domestic battery again in 2001 and that case was also dropped.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/patrick-connor/
yardwork
(61,599 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)ChiTownDenny
(747 posts)"But that isn't where our work ends."
HAHAHAHAHA
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)She did a great job documenting the situation.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)and quickly removed him.
Yet there were as I saw it at least 4 officers there and no one made a move to remove Trybus for at least a half an hour.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)the cop would have run over, drawn his gun, thrown him to the ground, handcuffed him while kneeling full force on him, and arrested him IMMEDIATELY for "public intoxication and disturbing the peace"... and then he'd have been thrown into the back of the police car "and not being gentle" about it per his "dear leader". And the guy is prancing around with a damn (I guess bullet-proof) vest on with all sorts of neat little pockets in it full of who knows what.
It's sad that it took a 2nd officer to finally come over and actually get the jerk.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)the whole reason every one of them has a job in the first place. Same applies to ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS, you get a taxpayer's funded paycheck then you serve the public
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)his job much anyway.