UPDATE: Fire department takes action after bogus complaint against GA police officer
Our readers weren’t the only ones outraged by the story surrounding a Stone Mountain, Georgia police officer’s traffic stop of an off-duty DeKalb County fire captain. DeKalb County Fire Chief Darnell Fullum told a reporter he was “stunned” by the situation.
Since viewing videos of the incident, Chief Fullum has fired Captain Terrell Davis and accepted the resignation of Krystal Cathcart, another department employee seen on the videos.
According to a news report a month ago, Cathcart and Davis had filed a report with the Stone Mountain Police Department saying Sgt. Steven Floyd cussed Cathcart and was “unprofessional, belligerent and disrespectful.”
Video from Sgt. Floyd’s body-cam and dash-cam showed none of that occurred.
Crystal Cathcart filed a written complaint, which included a warning about making a false sworn statement. She claimed Sgt. Floyd created “a sense of fear” at the scene, cussed her out twice, telling her to “back the f— up” or he will throw her in the “back of my squad car.”
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DeKalb Fire Captain Terrell Davis backed up her written complaint saying Sgt. Floyd was “unprofessional, belligerent and disrespectful.”
Musa Ghanayem is a lawyer representing both employees.
“Both regret the statements with regard to maybe exaggerated what was said,” says the attorney, “ but they both felt threatened, both felt there was a sense of fear.”
Chief Fullum says there was an obvious issue of truthfulness and following an internal affairs investigation, the department accepted Krystal Cathcart’s resignation in lieu of termination. And, they fired veteran Captain Terrell Davis.
Below is another story on the incident from two weeks ago.
