Re: Corruption at its best
I hear there are two Officers involved in some real heavy crap..this may wake up WPBPD :cop:
Re: Curruption at its best
I heard the same thing, one is RN who is the other?? Curious minds want to know...
Re: Curruption at its best
WEST PALM BEACH —*Stretched beneath a pickup on the side of an Interstate 95 ramp, Jason Zangara looked into the face of a dying colleague.“I can not (sic) let a brother officer die under my watch … is what raced through my mind, heart and soul,” the West Palm Beach officer wrote later.+Bruce St. Laurent was a 20-year veteran of the Jupiter police department.Now Zangara claims post traumatic stress disorder from his attempt to save Jupiter motorcycle officer Bruce St. Laurent, killed in September 2012 while escorting President Barack Obama’s motorcade.The city’s insurance company denied a workers compensation claim, saying Zangara didn’t have a work-related injury, and when Zangara’s sick time ran out, the city fired him last month.“Unfortunately there was nothing I could do to save him. I could only be with him,” Zangara wrote about St. Laurent on Dec. 29 on the web page protectthebadge.com. “NOW I AM A SINGLE FATHER WITH NO PAY and NO HEALTH INSURANCE. SHOULD I HAVE LEFT HIM ALONE?”
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Photo gallery: Funeral for officer Bruce St. Laurent*Zangara told both Palm Beach County prosecutors and state investigators he believes people in the department don’t believe his version of that day and are going after him because of other issues. Both agencies declined to act on his complaint.Zangara, 40, had been in the news in September when the city approved a $204,000 settlement, its largest in the past five years, in the 2008 beating of a robbery suspect. Of the three officers allegedly involved, Kurt Graham resigned; he and Louis Joseph Schwartz were criminally charged but charges later were dropped. Schwartz and Zangara were fired but went to arbitration and got their jobs back.On Dec. 5, Zangara was told he had exhausted his 360 days of allowable temporary assignment and was being terminated. Letters from the city to Zangara said that, after the state had denied his workers compensation claim, which would have allowed him two years of medical leave, Zangara had said he could return to work, but a medical evaluation concluded he could not.Jupiter officer had a ‘hunger for family life and for serving others’Preliminary report clears West Palm Beach woman in crash that killed Jupiter officerFHP: Pickup truck driver’s actions did not contribute to Jupiter motorcycle officer’s death in crashThe Police Benevolent Association filed a grievance on behalf of Zangara saying the injury was work-related, but the city denied that. Zangara also appealed his firing but the city rejected that on Dec. 19.The PBA is appealing up the chain of command to City Administrator Jeff Green and likely to an arbitrator.*The case also could go to the city’s pension board, a separate agency that would determine whether Zangara can leave on a disability pension.“Unfortunately, since an insurance company ruled he did not have a workers comp injury, it left us little choice but to follow their PBA contract that only gives an officer one year with pay,” city spokesman Elliot Cohen said. “Per the contract, we paid Zangara for an entire year without having him return to duty. But one year is what the PBA contract allows.”Zangara’s family has said neither they nor he want to publicly discuss the matter because of the pending grievance.A Florida Highway Patrol report said St. Laurent, 55, a 20-year law enforcement veteran, was at the front of a motorcade for Obama, who was headed to the Palm Beach County Convention Center for a campaign event. At a 45th Street entrance ramp to Interstate 95, the report said, he rode his police motorcycle into the path of Susan Holloway’s Ford F-150.West Palm Beach Police Capt. Sarah Mooney wrote Aug. 27 in Zangara’s last employee evaluation, “the incident was traumatic for everyone involved, and officer Zangara responded appropriately by rendering aid.”According to a Palm Beach County State Attorney’s memo, Zangara went to prosecutors investigating the crash in December 2012 to say he “is traumatized by the event. He can’t sleep and has nightmares and night sweats.”The memo said Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Capt. William Kenny told prosecutors he arrived within two minutes to find Zangara “under the truck, trying to keep the fallen officer’s attention, calling out to him, ‘stay with us.’”“Zangara believes that he is being targeted by the chain of command at his PD and also targeted because of past issues, PBSO Detective Dan Amero wrote in the memo. “There are also some questions by members of the West Palm Beach Police Department as to whether Zangara actually assisted St. Laurent to the extent reported.”The memo said the issue was a labor dispute and prosecutors would take no further action. A Florida Department of Law Enforcement report only detailed Zangara’s allegations.Widow Brenda St. Laurent said she read Zangara’s postings and cannot comment on whether they are accurate “because I was not there. If this is the truth then he should not have lost his job for that.”Zangara’s is not the first such case in West Palm Beach.In August, Iraq War veteran Matthew Ladd won an $880,000 verdict when a jury agreed the city improperly fired him on the suspicion he had PTSD. On Jan. 15, a judge refused to order the city to reinstate him to his former post.In September, a jury ordered Delray Beach to pay decorated Vietnam veteran Robert Desisto $762,000 for forcing him to retire after he explained he couldn’t drive a 20-ton truck on the open road because he has panic attacks.“This is a big issue around the country. Or, in my opinion, it should be,” John Marx, Founder of The Law Enforcement Survival Institute, said from Colorado. “We really don’t have a good handle on this whole “psychological fitness for duty’ issue. It’s very hard to gauge.”The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Medical Disorders, does list PTSD as a mental disorder rather than an injury.Andrew Ryan, a private psychologist in Columbia, S.C. and president-elect of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, said he wasn’t familiar with Zangara’s case and couldn’t speak to it directly. But, he said, “I’m not an attorney, but that’s an injury.” He added, “was he trying to rescue the person as part of his job? Yeah. That seems work-related to me.”Excerpts from Jason Zangara’s web postings (postings are as is, with spelling and grammatical errors):I crawled under the highly damaged truck with fluids flowing out and metal still hot to touch. I crawled through that stuff until I was face to face with Officer Bruce…I grabbed him by his Jupiter PD patch. As I held onto his patch I noticed his eyes green were falling back into his head. I could hear the deep breathes he was still fighting to take. “Bruce fight you will not die under this truck… Promise…“I can not let a brother officer die under my watch…. Is what raced though my mind, heart and soul. I was overcome and Felt so hopeless and helpless. Fear was breathing on my neck. The grim reaper stared through his eyes into mine….I felt humbled and useless.. We then got Bruce on the board and into the ambulance…I found a silver Dollar coin with the statue of liberty head. I felt it may mean something to Bruce. I made contact with Capt. Pat Kenny the leader of the presidential motorcade at st Mary’s Hospital. I spoke with Chief Kritzowe at the hospital and surrender the coin. He cried on me and said this coin is very special to Bruce and his family. He had it for Over 20 Years.. He Held it everyday he went through chemotherapy.I met Brenda bruce”s wife at the wake, and she asked If Bruce was in alot of pain? I said “besides my son being born this was the 2nd most impacting moment in my life.”“Bruce showed more strength, honor, courage, desire, love and compassion then I’ve ever seen.” Being with him in this time will change my life forever. I was honored to have been with him at the end.”Read Zangara’s entire entries:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prote...ttps://www.fac
Devastated Indian River County resident
Much terror and loss of life and property . Along with false arrests and claims of false use of drugs to gain accesses to residence to gain documents to alter and discredit any attempt to be helped . Terrorized to leave and when resisted another loss of life made to appear as suiside .
