Officials: SA cop fired for attempting to feed fecal sandwich to homeless person

[tenderfoot]

Words fail me...

An officer from the San Antonio Police Department has been fired for allegedly attempting to feed a fecal sandwich to a homeless person, several sources have confirmed.

The City Council was briefed on the matter during a private session Thursday, sources said. The officer reportedly placed fecal matter between two pieces of bread and gave it to a homeless person.

“This was a vile and disgusting act that violates our guiding principles of ‘treating all with integrity, compassion, fairness and respect,’ Chief William McManus said in a prepared statement. “The fact that his fellow officers were so disgusted with his actions that they reported him to Internal Affairs demonstrates that this type of behavior will never be tolerated. The action of this one former officer in no way reflects the actions of all the other good men and women who respectfully serve this community.”

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For the past year, or so, Luckhurst has been on SAPD’s downtown bike-patrol unit.

Reached by telephone, Luckhurst declined to comment, saying that his lawyer advised him not to speak to reporters.

Ben Sifuentes, Luckhurst’s attorney, said that his client joked about giving an excrement sandwich to a homeless person but never actually did so. The “joke” spiraled out of control, he said, and has turned is client into the subject of unfair persecution, Sifuentes said.

“It didn’t happen,” Sifuentes said. There are no eyewitnesses or video recordings and no statement from the homeless person, the lawyer said.

“I’m confident that in arbitration, we will prevail,” said Sifuentes, who has previously represented SAPD officers facing discipline and termination.


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[dalton99]

1. What else did Matthew Luckhurst do?

[volstork]

2. Good question.

This is probably the tip of the iceberg with that guy.