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10-03-2014, 12:56 PM
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‘I’m on a call': Officer ignores mom whose children had just been kidnapped
DALLAS, Texas (PIX11) – A Dallas police officer was fired after dash-cam footage caught him ignoring a woman whose children were being kidnapped at gunpoint.
Footage shows Senior Cpl. Les Richardson, 61, smoking a cigarette in a patrol car and driving by a woman who was trying to flag him down Aug. 25, Dallas News reported.
“That’s him, that’s him, right there,” the woman shouted to Richardson.
Instead of responding to the woman, Richardson reported to a burglary call. He also told the woman before driving away “Right here what, baby? I’m on a call.”
The woman was referring to her ex, Steven Douglas, 29. Douglas had just rammed his pickup truck into her car and removed her two children from the vehicle at gunpoint, the website reported.
Douglas eventually led police on a car chase and threatened an officer with a gun. He was fatally shot by the same officer.
Richardson, who worked with the department for 28 years, was initially placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the woman’s allegations.
He was terminated Wednesday – the same day video footage was released.
hxxp://pix11.com/2014/10/02/im-on-a-call-officer-ignores-mom-whose-children-had-just-been-kidnapped/
‘I’m on a call': Officer ignores mom whose children had just been kidnapped
DALLAS, Texas (PIX11) – A Dallas police officer was fired after dash-cam footage caught him ignoring a woman whose children were being kidnapped at gunpoint.
Footage shows Senior Cpl. Les Richardson, 61, smoking a cigarette in a patrol car and driving by a woman who was trying to flag him down Aug. 25, Dallas News reported.
“That’s him, that’s him, right there,” the woman shouted to Richardson.
Instead of responding to the woman, Richardson reported to a burglary call. He also told the woman before driving away “Right here what, baby? I’m on a call.”
The woman was referring to her ex, Steven Douglas, 29. Douglas had just rammed his pickup truck into her car and removed her two children from the vehicle at gunpoint, the website reported.
Douglas eventually led police on a car chase and threatened an officer with a gun. He was fatally shot by the same officer.
Richardson, who worked with the department for 28 years, was initially placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the woman’s allegations.
He was terminated Wednesday – the same day video footage was released.
hxxp://pix11.com/2014/10/02/im-on-a-call-officer-ignores-mom-whose-children-had-just-been-kidnapped/