I didn't see this posted anywhere.

Video I can't figure out how to inbed

This explains it.

Stay safe out there LEOs and first responders.

Jeeeesus, that man has no business being a police officer. They should issue him a wooden gun.





Link to original video: https://youtu.be/WBfWS7XWAeg

“This squaw yammers on like mocking bird, give Tonto headache.”

That man needs to choose a new career.

Ah, wow.

Someone just got a medical disability claim.

And I don't think he was after one.

Turns out the deputy has quite a history. The Good Ole Boy network in action!

https://www.knoxnews.com/story...ment-job/1034932001/

Sevier deputy in panic-attack case forced to resign from prior law enforcement job

SEVIERVILLE - A Sevier County deputy who opened fire without warning in a neighborhood and suffered a panic attack four minutes later was forced to resign as a Johnson City law enforcer in 2013 after “fanning” a fellow officer with his gun, lying to his chief about an affair and getting in a shoving match with his wife, records show.

Deputy Justin M. Johnson did not include any mention of his short stint at the Johnson City Police Department in his application to work at the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office nor did Sevier County’s background check reveal his prior post and the problems documented in that agency’s file.

SCSO did not respond to a written list of questions sent Tuesday about Johnson’s employment history, why the agency did not conduct an investigation of the December 2016 shooting incident on Sharp Road, whether his omission of the Johnson City job was grounds for termination and Johnson’s current status with the agency.

Brian Mullinax, 41, is charged with assault in Sevier County Circuit Court for causing Johnson to suffer a panic attack four minutes after Johnson opened fire in a neighborhood of mobile homes. Johnson fired without warning over the head of Mullinax’s girlfriend, Tina Cody, and a paramedic.

Mullinax was unarmed and was face-down on the ground several yards from Johnson when Johnson suffered the panic attack.


The incident was captured on Johnson’s body camera. Johnson wrote in a report that he fired seven shots after turning toward a noise behind him. His body camera showed he remained forward, facing Mullinax as Mullinax walked onto a porch with a cell phone, telling Johnson he was filming the arrest of his girlfriend.

He never mentioned the panic attack in his report, but a SCSO detective later charged Mullinax with causing it.

The only prior law enforcement experience Johnson listed in his application filed in June 2016 at SCSO was a stint as a jailer in Cocke County and 18 months as a patrol officer at the Newport Police Department. The dates of those two jobs were redacted by SCSO. The agency did not provide a reason for the redaction.

Documents obtained by USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee show Johnson is a preacher licensed by the Appalachian Association of Free Will Baptists who worked as a cashier in Nashville in 2010 while studying to be a preacher but moved back to Johnson City, where he graduated high school in 2008, after dropping out of the Free Will Baptist Bible College.

He worked briefly as a jailer for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office before being hired as a police officer with the Johnson City Police Department in June 2013.

By September 2013, he was in trouble with field training officers, who documented weekly remedial training and worries about his unsafe handling of guns and suspects, records show.

In one incident, a supervisor wrote that Johnson “fanned” a fellow officer with the muzzle of his gun and tried to fight a suspect using the same hand that he was using to hold his gun.

A month later, he was accused of lying to Johnson City Police Chief Mark Sirois in an email warning the chief that a “lunatic” woman with a “fatal attraction” for Johnson, a married father of three, would be filing a complaint against him that he denied in advance.

The woman did file a complaint, saying she had been having an affair with Johnson for years. When his wife found out, Johnson sent her a text, advising her to “kill herself” and called the state Department of Children’s Services with an anonymous complaint that the woman was neglecting her child, according to records.

“She also felt the fact that he was a preacher made his behavior even more inappropriate,” the investigating officer wrote.

Johnson was found guilty in an internal affairs investigation of lying to the chief and “unbecoming conduct.”

“The facts are clear that Officer Johnson intentionally misled Chief Sirois,” the file stated.

Johnson was also accused of shoving and slapping his wife in a fight over her smoking of cigarettes, and she admitted slapping and shoving him over his "adultery," a report stated. He was allowed to resign in lieu of termination in November 2013.

Johnson was summoned to a mobile home park on Sharp Road by paramedics after an overweight woman who had fallen inside a camper-style trailer began making complaints about Robin Sutton, her landlord, and accusing Sutton and Cody of stealing her purse, records showed.

When Cody walked from the yard of the trailer and climbed through a fence into a field, Johnson drew his gun but instead of walking toward her or issuing commands, he ran around another mobile home, blocking his view of her, walked onto Sharp Road and then headed toward the field, the video showed.

Johnson, with help from a paramedic, was trying to handcuff Cody, who was on the ground, when Mullinax, her boyfriend, walked out of a trailer in front of Johnson and, according to testimony, began yelling that he was filming Johnson with his cell phone.

Johnson wrote in his report that he heard a sound behind him and then turned to see an armed suspect on the porch of a mobile home behind him. The video showed Mullinax was on a porch of a trailer facing Johnson.

Johnson issued no warning and fired over the paramedic’s head.

Johnson immediately ran away after firing the shots. When he returned to the location in the field where a paramedic still had Cody on the ground, he yelled at Mullinax, “You drop that (expletive) thing. Do it now.”

Mullinax dropped the phone and got on the ground. He yelled a complaint but did not threaten violence.

Mullinax and Cody spent 42 days in jail on felony aggravated assault charges filed against them by SCSO and directly accusing them of causing Johnson’s panic attack.

The couple were held without a preliminary hearing for weeks. The law requires such a hearing for jailed suspects within 10 business days of arrest. A judge in March tossed out the felony charges, but sent the case to a Sevier County grand jury review.

The grand jury rejected charges Cody caused Johnson’s panic attack, instead indicting her for resisting arrest. The grand jury indicted Mullinax on a misdemeanor assault charge.

Attorneys Stan Young and Cameron Bell have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cody and Mullinax in U.S. District Court. It seeks $750,000 in damages.

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Johnson was also accused of shoving and slapping his wife in a fight over her smoking of cigarettes, and she admitted slapping and shoving him over his "adultery," a report stated. He was allowed to resign in lieu of termination

Vs.

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Mullinax and Cody spent 42 days in jail on felony aggravated assault charges filed against them by SCSO and directly accusing them of causing Johnson’s panic attack ...... A judge in March tossed out the felony charges, but sent the case to a Sevier County grand jury review.

The grand jury rejected charges Cody caused Johnson’s panic attack, instead indicting her for resisting arrest. The grand jury indicted Mullinax on a misdemeanor assault charge

The paramedic sounds like the only good guy in the whole story.
The sheriffs office and local prosecutor likely filed the charges to cover up the whole mess, knowing the two arrestees weren't bright enough to do much about it.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
The paramedic sounds like the only good guy in the whole story.
The sheriffs office and local prosecutor likely filed the charges to cover up the whole mess, knowing the two arrestees weren't bright enough to do much about it.

Not only the good guy, the only guy thinking, and a guy dropped into the middle of a situation that he shouldn't have been in to begin with. He was the only one competently managing the situation.

That guy should never have been hired as a cop. Probably it'll turn out he's the sheriff's cousin's sister's brother-in-law's nephew or something. Or his bowling buddy. And yeah, while Mr. Mullinax and Ms. Cody appear to be the walking talking definition of "white trailer trash", they certainly don't seem to have done anything to warrant assault charges or shots fired. Resisting or attempting to elude on her part, maybe.

What a mess.

The sheriff was the one who first fired the shots from his gun to which he was responding afterwards or was there really another person who was shooting?

Was that an assault by cell phone?

If Mullinax, the boy friend had been hit by gunfire and died, could his corpse be charged with inciting a riot?

I don't know the details, and I'm not making excuses, but you might be surprised at the paltry salaries of lots of rural deputies and mall town cops. out in the boonies, those guys farm, or have another job or two. The best of them leave for the bigger cities or state agencies which pay much better. I personally know some young cops making under $20.00/hr.

Hmmm... are we certain this officer did not partake in the Tide pod challenge?
He appears to be two fries shy of a happy meal.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Jeeeesus, that man has no business being a police officer. They should issue him a wooden gun.





Link to original video: https://youtu.be/WBfWS7XWAeg

That was pretty gnarly. The lady was funny though SHUT %#%# UP!!!!...No you shut the $%&^ up...

Too bad they don't make an inhaler form of Ativan, because that dude needed it bad.

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Originally posted by LtJL:
I don't know the details, and I'm not making excuses, but you might be surprised at the paltry salaries of lots of rural deputies and mall town cops. out in the boonies, those guys farm, or have another job or two. The best of them leave for the bigger cities or state agencies which pay much better. I personally know some young cops making under $20.00/hr.

We're the 11th ranked county out of 67 in Florida, population wise. Until this past December, starting pay at the sheriff's office was $16.48 an hour. By "starting pay", it means after you are trained or if you entered with LEO experience. If you had no LEO experience, the starting pay during training was an attractive $12.75 an hour. An 11 year veteran's base pay was $17.75 an hour. Due to extensive contract negotions, it is now about $18.00 an hour for experienced LEO's.

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Originally posted by L90814:

...We're the 11th ranked county out of 67 in Florida, population wise. Until this past December, starting pay at the sheriff's office was $16.48 an hour. By "starting pay", it means after you are trained or if you entered with LEO experience. If you had no LEO experience, the starting pay during training was an attractive $12.75 an hour. An 11 year veteran's base pay was $17.75 an hour. Due to extensive contract negotions, it is now about $18.00 an hour for experienced LEO's.

Unbelievable. I know in a lot of areas 911/Dispatch is a minimum wage job, didn’t realize cops were thought so little of as well.

My agency, cops start at over $30/hr ($67K+/yr) and with seniority, OT, and off duty work a lot break the $100K mark.

I would suggest the title of this thread is misleading. This was an Officer having some type of mental breakdown AND then discharging his weapon. It’s not unheard of for an Officer to go into some type of shock after being forced to legally take a life in the course of duty. Either way, it’s time for this Officer to move onto another career.