Holy shitty embarrassing!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/col...re-misconduct-report

Colorado police chief fires officer citing 'severe misconduct': report

By Jack Durschlag | Fox News
Published 44 mins ago

An Aurora, Colo. police officer has been terminated from his position by the interim chief of police for “severe misconduct” in connexion to an August 2019 incident, a television report said Monday.

Posting on an Aurora Police Department blog, Interim Chief Vanessa Wilson said the fired officer’s conduct was “completely out of character with the mission, ideals, and expectations of the Aurora Police Department,” FOX 31 reported.

The officer was identified late Monday as Levi Huffine, who has worked for the police department since November 2012, the television station reported.

Wilson stressed there were no serious injuries resulting from the August 2019 incident involving Huffine.

While no other details concerning Huffine’s termination were released, an APD spokesperson did say the firing was not related to incidents involving Agent Nate Meier or Elijah McClain, the report said.

In the Meier incident, a general offense report obtained by FOX31 and Channel 2 said on March 29, 2019, officers were dispatched to the area of East Mississippi Avenue and South Tower Road on a welfare check. Dispatch was told an unconscious person — possibly an APD officer — was inside a car outside Buckley Air Force Base.

When officers arrived, they found Aurora firefighters were already at the scene. APD Agent Nate Meier was in the driver’s seat of an unmarked Ford Taurus patrol car stopped in the middle of Mississippi, according to the report. The engine was still running.

The second incident involves Elijah McClain, a man who died days after an encounter with Aurora police and fire personnel in August 2019, with an attorney for the McClain family putting authorities on notice she plans on suing the city.

The department says the case involves officers making contact with a member of the public, adding someone complained of a non-serious injury and was checked out by medical staff, the FOX 31 report said. No additional details of the incident have been released.

“If [they] have a gross act that’s unlawful, that’s a clear violation of policy, the chief absolutely has discretion to make a firing decision on the spot,” said Paul Taylor, a former police officer and assistant professor at University of Colorado Denver.

“Due to a pending appeals process that is given to civil service employees, I am unable to provide additional details or information about this incident until that process has been completed. At such time, I will make the body worn camera footage available and address questions from our community members,” Wilson wrote on the police blog.

The interim chief said her decision followed her promise of transparency and building back the community’s trust.

Damn.

Probably take your daughter to work day.

For the second time on the forum in 2 days.... What did I just read?

There’s no indication the officer was even present at the two incidents cited, in fact, APD says Huffine’s “severe misconduct” is not related to the cited incidents. You tend to forget who the article is about, since his name is never brought up again. Additionally, “connexion?!?” Oh well, journalism is dead and decomposed

Connexion is the British spelling. It's a conspiracy. Where did I put my aluminium foil fascinator?

Once you spotted that "connexion" at the beginning, you just knew the article was going to be shit. And, yup, it was.

News flash: Colorado police officer fired. We have nothing else to report.

The media creed: When you have nothing to say, it is best to say nothing (see article) or invent something.

Translation:

"An officer was fired. We don't know why. Here's 500 more words to obfuscate the fact that we don't know why, including some random mentions of some situations to which he had no connection, per the department."

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Connexion is the British spelling. It's a conspiracy. Where did I put my aluminium foil fascinator?

'Connexion' is NOT the 'British' spelling, assuming that you mean the 'English' spelling.

Trust me, I live here and have spent years learning and using the language.

If you were reading English at the time of Chaucer - 13/14th C Middle English - well THEN you would have read the word 'connexion', but not since then.

Even Shakespeare wrote 'connection'.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Connexion is the British spelling.

Er...no it isn't.

That’s an interesting piece of fumble-fuckery. At least it didn’t repeat the same lines over and over again, slightly re-worded, as has become très chic in shitty news reporting the last decade or so. Words matter, but apparently to these nitwits, wordcount matters more.

I just read the article on Fox News and was so confused. I found myself imagining what who why was fired in relation to......well, nevermind

Article was written by a reformed Nigerian Scam operator.

Ah, I stand corrected. When I saw it, I googled it and the first thing that came up was "archaic British spelling" from Latin connexio and that the ct spelling didn't start until the 18th century. It could also have been borrowed from Old French connexioun, again from Latin. I didn't look any further before I posted.

Further googling reveals somebody forgot to tell J.R.R. Tolkien. The Times of London was still using it as it's house style into the 1980s. The Connexion is a newspaper and website for English speaking expatriates in France. Shakespeare did not use connexion or connection in any of his works but did used connected, conn'd, and connive. And as a piece of trivia sure to impress one's friends, Shakespeare was the first to use the word, unfriended. Shakespeare also used the or and our spellings of various words early on and settled on the our spellings later. The Oxford English Dictionary says - connection ( Brit also connexion). Merriam-Webster Dictionary - "Definition of connexion
chiefly British spelling of CONNECTION".

It may not be the British spelling, but they seem to have been the only ones using it in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

I've channeled my inner jimmy. Thank you for that rabbit hole. Between learning more about a spelling of a word I have never seen and fixing our spa (new controller, pump bearings, ozonator, keypad, etc.), it's a good day and not even noon.

Shitty written article. It probably stems from the drama that's been going on since March. Officer Nate Meier was found passed out drink in a police car. Responding officers didn't collect evidence and basically let him get away with it. I think the police chief resigned a week or two ago. Those 2 officers were probably the 2 officers that responded to the call and didn't get a blood sample.

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
It probably stems from the drama that's been going on since March. Officer Nate Meier was found passed out drink in a police car.

Nope. Department specifically stated that this firing was not related to the Meier incident. From the article in the OP:

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APD spokesperson did say the firing was not related to incidents involving Agent Nate Meier or Elijah McClain

So while we don't know what the firing stemmed from, we do know two incidents to which it was not connected.

What's worse...the author of this article or, the editor who either rubber stamped an OK, or, is equally pathetic in writing competence?

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Connexion is the British spelling. It's a conspiracy. Where did I put my aluminium foil fascinator?

'Connexion' is NOT the 'British' spelling, assuming that you mean the 'English' spelling.

Trust me, I live here and have spent years learning and using the language.

If you were reading English at the time of Chaucer - 13/14th C Middle English - well THEN you would have read the word 'connexion', but not since then.

Even Shakespeare wrote 'connection'.

Hah. Reminds me of the time I was on the tube coming home from work one day when two American girls were talking nearby. One complained to the other, “I wish they’d speak English!” At that point I’d been working in London long enough that I didn’t laugh out loud, but mentally, I damn near busted a gut!