RACIAL SLURS AND DISPARAGING REMARKS ABOUT THEIR CHIEF GET TWO MINNEAPOLIS COPS FIRED

They got into a fight with a group of black men, then berated intervening Green Bay, Wisconsin cops using racial slurs and telling them “We have a lesbian fucking chief”

I’ve always told my students and police academy cadets that most police officers get into trouble over wine, women and guns. In this case it was whatever they were drinking.

2 OFF-DUTY MINNEAPOLIS COPS FIRED FOR INCIDENT OUTSIDE GREEN BAY BAR

CNN
December 6, 2013

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (CNN) -- A pair of Minneapolis police officers who were caught on camera off duty outside a bar berating police and using derogatory epithets in Green Bay have been fired.

That's according to sources with direct knowledge of the incident.
In June, Brian Thole and Shawn Powell were in Wisconsin when they got into a street fight.

When Green Bay police broke up the fight, they say the two used racial slurs and derogatory remarks about their boss.

Now, five months later, their boss, Chief Janee Harteau, has decided they should lose their jobs.

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"We have a lesbian fucking chief." ... "Doing their little monkey thing."

They were harsh words spoken by two off-duty swat officers on the streets of Green Bay after a trip to a bar that lead to a scuffle with a group of black men.

And, when Brian Thole and Shawn Powell didn't think Green Bay police weren't taking it seriously the police report says they later walked into that Wisconsin police station to demand special treatment.

Thole and Powell have both been collecting their full-time paychecks on home assignment ever since. That's about $70,000 combined.

Last month, Minneapolis police explained to us why its internal investigation was taking so long.

Deputy Chief Travis Glampe said internal affairs is designed to protect the employee and the process.

And, in a case like this there were dozens of witness interviews in another state that they needed to complete first.

But, after a three-person police panel and the police chief looked over what that investigation found it appears that Thole and Powell are off the force.
The officers can still fight to get their jobs back, by filing a grievance with the police union.

They also have some other options available to them because they are both military veterans.