Management Bile How new Capt. Robert Atcheson gets along with his co-workers
(Josh Neufeld)
In December, Robert Atcheson was promoted to captain within the D.C. police department. As he describes it, his ascendancy up the ranks was as simple as putting in his time and acing the department’s test.
“I’ll tell you what, it feels pretty good,” Atcheson says. “My number was up, so to speak.…Things are looking good.” Atcheson says he now oversees approximately 120 officers as the assistant district commander for the Third District substation.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier sourced Atcheson’s bump to both his test-taking skills and simple timing, saying: “At the time he took the promotional exam, he was eligible.”
Here is what the exam presumably did not cover: Atcheson’s tenure as a lieutenant supervising the Environmental Crimes Unit and the Warrant Squad at various times between the beginning of 2001 and December 2003. That notch on his résumé netted him a lengthy investigation by the department’s Office of Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Compliance.
In August of 2005, the department convened a trial board hearing on Atcheson’s conduct. He faced three charges that covered conduct unbecoming of an officer, use of disrespectful language, making false statements, failing to provide equal opportunities, and discrimination based on race.
He was found guilty on all counts. The board recommended he be fired.
Yet Atcheson wasn’t fired. After appealing his case, then Chief Charles H. Ramsey dismissed the more serious charges and issued him a 30-day suspension for his use of profanity.
Atcheson appealed that decision. An administrative judge had initially decided against Atcheson in September of last year. He has since appealed that decision.
“I never cursed much to begin with,” Atcheson says.
A selection of testimony from the EEO investigation, trial board, and appeal hearing reveals a fundamental schism: There is what Atcheson’s subordinates think of his supervisory skills, and there is what Atcheson thinks of his subordinates.
About That Cursing…
• Investigator Wai Tat Chung: After Chung covered the 2003 IMF protests, Atcheson refused to authorize a half-hour of overtime. Chung brought a union rep with him to a meeting with Atcheson. When the rep stepped out for a moment, Atcheson, Chung says, told him: “You aren’t shit.…You don’t want me to be on your ass every day, you stupid fuck.…You don’t know how many ways that I can fuck you if you pursue this matter.…I helped you guys all the time letting you take leave, and you stab me in the back…so you better make the right choice, if you know what I mean…and if you try to use this against me, I will lie and deny it.…You don’t have a witness…it’s just your word against mine, and I am a lieutenant.” He later called Chung an “ungrateful asshole,” according to Chung.
• Chung also recalled an incident of Atcheson’s profound use of metaphor. He told Chung a story about killing a dog: “This dog had gotten old and was no longer useful, so [Atcheson] went and got a gun and came back and shot the dog. And the thing was that he got a small caliber gun, so the dog was not killed after the first shot, so he just kept shooting the dog and shooting the dog.…In that story he told me…I was that dog and I was no longer useful for him in this unit and that I was going to be removed or discarded.” Chung stated that he was detailed out of the unit multiple times.
• Investigator Joseph Gatling: “‘Fuck,’ he said that a lot.” And he used words like “mope” and “slap” to refer to officers.
• Investigator Corpus Garcia: Atcheson told him if he didn’t complete a specific case involving a fugitive within three weeks, he was going to detail him to “the Gay and Lesbian Unit.” Garcia stated that when he asked Atcheson to show a little more respect, the supervisor replied that “he was going to ‘fuck me in the ass’” if the fugitive wasn’t locked up.
• Garcia also recalled in his statement several more incidents of Atcheson’s fondness for certain words. Of one investigator under his command, he bragged that he was going to “fuck him up.” He also says he heard Atcheson refer to a female captain as “that cunt, that bitch.”
Cursing, Part II: “Piece of Shit” Edition
• Investigator Gatling: He heard Atcheson refer to Investigator Garcia as a “big dumb ass” and a “piece of shit.”
• Investigator Robert Bush: He stated that Atcheson described Investigator Chung this way: “Personally, I think he’s a piece of shit.”
• Lt. Shakir Muslim: He says Atcheson referred to another investigator as a “dumb and lazy, piece of shit motherfucker.”
Atcheson’s defense: He said his profanity was merely “casual.” About his overtime argument with Chung, he explained that both sides got heated and admitted telling Chung: “You know, it’s going to be your fucking word against mine.” During the initial EEO investigation he stated, “I have never called anyone in my life a name.” But at the trial board, he testified he may have used such language to describe subordinates who weren’t producing. When asked if he referred to officers under his command as pieces of shit and motherfuckers, he replied, “I have made reference to that, yes.”
Checking Up
• Investigator Randy Squires: In July 2001, Squires and his brother were arrested while on a fishing trip in Oriental, N.C., for “interfering with a police officer in the line of duty and obstruction of justice,” according to police records. The charges were dropped. Squires eventually won a civil suit against the Oriental Police Department. Before resolution of the case, Squires testified that Atcheson phoned the Carolina cops to tell them that Squires had a “bad attitude” and didn’t get along with his co-workers.
• A month later, Atcheson accused Squires of taking home a police car without authorization. EEO Investigators wrote: “Atcheson informed Investigator Squires that he drove by Investigator Squires’ home and took pictures of the car parked in front of his house.” Atcheson also told Squires that he had followed him to work one morning and took pictures of him exiting the car in the unit’s lot. After Squires refused to admit any wrongdoing, Atcheson said he was going to write him up for adverse action. “Despite Investigator Squires’ repeated requests, Lieutenant Atcheson never showed him the pictures and Investigator Squires was never notified” of any adverse action.
Atcheson’s defense: He testified he was genuinely convinced that Squires had done something wrong both in North Caroline and with the cop car. Atcheson claimed that he witnessed Squires drive a police car without authorization and heard the complaints from others. But police records show he admitted to the EEO investigator that “he had no evidence that Investigator Squires” used the car improperly and “that he deliberately lied to Investigator Squires to prompt him to admit to an offense he did not commit.”
Racing to the Finish
• Lt. Shakir Muslim: Atcheson pressured Muslim to give a white officer a higher evaluation than the other officers in the unit. If he did not comply, Atcheson said he would give Muslim a bad evaluation. Muslim reported that Atcheson “threatened him on a regular basis.” When Muslim reported up the chain of command a white officer’s alleged unauthorized outside employment, Atcheson called him and stated: “You fucked me. You fucked me, didn’t you?”
• Sgt. Louie White: According to White’s testimony, Atcheson met with a white officer to discuss his citizen complaint for harassment. During the meeting, Atcheson told the cop that he if worked east of the river, the complaint would not have occurred. “Since you went uptown where people have half a brain, this is what happens,” Atcheson told the white cop, according to testimony.
Atcheson’s defense: He denied that any of his actions were based on race. The trial board noted numerous EEO complaints in his personnel jacket. He told the EEO investigator: “There a lot of quote, ‘black people,’ black males in high levels of management in this police department who have done things as bad as I have, apparently, or it’s alleged that I have done, and they weren’t removed from their command. There is so much inequity that I can’t prove.”
Atcheson served his 30-day suspension two years ago. He is awaiting a decision on his appeal. A lawsuit concerning Atcheson’s treatment of Squires is scheduled to go to trial on Feb. 27 in U.S. District Court.
Feb. 8 - 15, 2008 (Vol. 28, #6)
Comments
2:04 am
There is so much coruption within the Metropolitan Police Department regardless of race. This is the type of trash we have working for the District Government across the board. Oh what a web we weave!
5:30 am
I am so not surprised about this. This is totally on track with the type of unprofessionalism and abuse that plagues the 3rd district. Although they have the highest number of police complaints in the city nothing is done about it. It's a system of abuse. If officers are allowed to abuse fellow officers what chance does a regular citizen have?
I am reposting a comment I made early on the city paper blog regarding police conmplaints. This is from my own personal experience regarding the 3rd district:
I always beleived that the police were there to help you and if you were a good person who followed the law you had nothing to worry about. That all changed September 3rd 2005 around 3am . Me and a 5 friends (all with clean records and professional jobs and most with degrees) we were walking to our cars after an evening at a nightclub at 14th and L when when we had the unfortunate luck of stumbling across plain clothes officers who appeared to be doing something they werent supposed to be doing with a prostitute.
We didnt even realize what we we saw at first. We didnt even realize these men were officers until well after the foul language, the threats, the shoves and until the guns were drown. You the reader are probably saying to youself “something else must have happened here” - that is what I would have thought if I hadnt seen it myself. If I hadn’t seen a girl who weighed less than a hundred pounds get her arm broken (confirmed by hospital staff). If I hadnt seen one young man cover his friends body with his body to stop the blows from the policemans baton. If I handt seen one officer hold a handcuffed and seated man on the ground while an officer punched him in the face and said “what you have to say now motherfucker” (luckily another office pulled him off after a few punches). The only way I managed not to be assaulted directly was by taking photos with my phone while the assault which lasted about 5 minutes took place (unfortunetly my flash was not on so the pictures came out too dark).
This isnt something that just happens to poor, uneducated people who don’t know the system. It can happen to anyone - I know because it happened to me. At the scene I requested a supervisor and a community liason - I was directed to the officer who initiated the violence and who broke the girls arm. Immediatly at the station where I and a concerned bystander totally who had never met me or my party that night (I myself had only met those people that night) waited at the 3RD STREET police station for hours. Not only did the police refuse to take our statement but when I informed them I wanted to file a complaint I was told by by the SERGEANT NEALE ( I will never forget that name) “You want to file a complaint? What do you think is going to happen? We are going to investate ourselves?” After I informed them I was filing a complaint and forced them to give me a complaint the four people …the four VICTIMS were charged with a felony - assualting a policy officer. Although they were the only ones with the bruises, cuts, broken bones, and puncture wounds (fyi - puncture wonds dont heal like regular cuts - they can bleed for an entire week - I know I dressed those wounds daily for a week - you can never get used to waking up in blood soaked sheets).
I have never been more afraid in my life. I can only imagagine what those without a formal education, without the knowledge of how the system works or those that are poor or disenfranchised handle a situation like that.
Without going into any more detail I will give you the highlights. After a year of constant delays by the police department (including the refusal of the officers to participate in the Office of Police Complaint Process) to produce evidence the case was finally dismissed against my four friends - by then we had almost all but stop speaking. The trauma of the incident was too much. The officers involved Officer Norman Kenny, Officer Randy Twyman, Officer Ellingsworth
were not charged by the States Attorneys office although there were photographs of the injuries, multiple eyewitnesses including people not related to the victims.
Over 2 years later earlier this month I got a letter in the mail from the Office of Police Complaints regarding the charges that we filed against the officers including Execcive Force and Harrassment. UNFOUNDED. I check every day on the website of the office of police complaints to get some idea what would make us wrong and them right? What is the justification for beating someone? Of nearly killing them?
Some may consider me lucky because I managed to escape any PHYSICAL harm that night. I carry the emotional scars with me deep and they will never go away. It took almost a week before I was able to drive my own car in the city and when an officer pulled up behind me I nearly had a heart attack. The stress was that bad.
I would love it if the city paper or some other news outlet would look into this story. Not just because it happened to me but because it could happen to anyone and the fact of the matter is that it DOES HAPPEN EVERY DAY. The process involved in filing one of these complaints is long and arduous yet most of the descisions in these complaints are reached until many years later and even if the complaints are founded there is almost no disciplinary action. You would be surprised what someone can get away with as long as they have a badge.
WE have to do something about this - WHY WON’T THE GOVERMENT HELP? Why is this being ignored? I try to tell myself that not all officers are like this but it is hard to believe that when you see the system of coverups and excuses that are involved with these types of cases.
Here is a link to the website of the Office of Police Complaints. You should review the descisions it is eyeopening yet horrific at the same time. Notice the length of time from the incident to the descision - YEARS!
http://occr.dc.gov/occr/site/default.asp?occrNav=|
10:27 am
Forever Affected, after reading your comment, I am horrified. There's corruption at the Fourth District too and throughout the Metropolitan Police Department. You have an alleged former Commander of the Fourth District accused of having sex with a woman in his cruiser and sending sexual emails according to Channel 7 news. If Channel 7 had not investigated this matter, him illiterate behind would still be commanding the Fourth District. Recently, he was demoted to an Inspector. Another Fourth District male officer was alleged to have propositioned 14 year old boy for sex. Recently a former 5th District Officer was convicted of stealing a citizen's credit card while taking a police report in her home. Over the holidays a female police officer was drunk at a night club and spit on the bouncer, because he wouldn't let her in. I agree with Max, this is the type of trash we having working for the Metropolitan Police Department and other District agencies. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has her hands full. Forever Affected, I am glad you walked away with your life!
1:20 pm
Thank you soooooo much delta girl! I really appreicate it. I am so very lucky that I was not physically hurt or killed that night because it was very possible. Guns were pointed and only by the grace of god was no one shot that night. I did suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome as a result of that incident and it took me a while just to feel safe seeing a police officer.
There were several points of craziness that night that I didnt even address in my comment- an ambulance did come but guess who got into it? One of the officers who asaulted my companions although he had NO injuries. The female with the broken arm was placed in the back of the police car crying hysterically. It wasn't until much later she and the other victims were transferred to the hospital and then they were given two choices "go to the hospital but then you will have to stay in jail all weekend or don't go to the hospital and you MIGHT get out tomorrow". My poor female friend with the broken arm had to stay in jail over a three day weekend because she had to have medical treatment.
Although it has been over 2 years I still cant forget this. As I write this I hope it inspires other people to speak up but at the same time part of me is still very afraid of repeccussions of speaking out. Those officers were thugs and thugs have no integrity and no values. I have no doubt if they could get at me they would. This is not me being paranoid it is a response of the experience I went through and the campaign of harassment that we encountered trying to bring this to justice.
BTW for anyone who is wondering if I or the other witnesses were intoxicated - we weren't. We were stone sober and the police allowed all three of us to drive our 3 cars to the police station right after the incident.
I still wonder why this case has not been posted on the Office of Police Complaint website although I recieved a letter months ago claiming a decision was made and it was unfounded. My feeling is that like many of these thigns it is being pushed under the rug.
For anyone who has experienced unprofessional conduct my the police department PLEASE file a complaint. Perhaps if the department was flooded with these complaints and put on notice they can finally stop ignorning these problems.
Nothign has changed in the 3rd district. One of my co-workers had to file a complaint against an officer of the 3rd district for a harrasment claim 3 months after mine and her's was just founded!
4:05 pm
I went to the OPC website and the annual report is posted. Forever Affected's case appears to be on pages 15-16:
"The complainants also admitted that they had been drinking and that their exchange with the officers continued to the point where the officers felt that the male complainant’s behavior crossed the line to disorderly conduct. When one of the officers attempted to arrest the male complainant, the incident escalated quickly after one of the friends rapidly approached and kicked the officer, which was confirmed by an independent witness. Additional officers and the other friends became involved in a scuffle that was started by the complainants’ friend. In general, OPC did not credit several of the allegations or the versions of the events provided by the complainants’ and their friend because they were inconsistent and contradictory as to what they did and how the officers responded. They also admitted they had been drinking before the incident occurred."
10:49 pm
Thank you for pointing out where I could find information on this case - even if what was included in the report is totally a misrepresentation of the facts. The officers wouldnt even talk to the investigators at the begining of the investigation - they refused to make statements.
All I can say is Oh My God.
They won.
They said from the very begining no one would believe us and they were right.
I love how the report totally misses the fact that at the time the police were about to arrest the "male" for non compliance and being threatening they totally didnt mention the fact that he was carrying a girl on his back ( I had just broken my strappy stilleto coming down the stairs and being the kind of guy he was the guy offered to carry me on his back across the asphalt parking lot to my car. That is how much of a "threat" and a "drunk" he was. OMG.
There was no man behind that police car - there was a prostitute that looked like she was in distress and she disappeared for several days after that. They couldnt even determine if she had been arrested. It was like a week later before she was "found" and then had a "statement" that read suspiciously like the officers wrote it.
By the way - the "crowd" consisted of 3 girls, 3 men and a stranger who we never met before who was just walking to his car. The stranger waiting for 3 hours in the police station to give his report which the officers wouldnt take. I myself had met 4 of the people involved that night.
Myself and another witness waited for 4 hours before we were finally given a complaint form and only one pencil which we had to beg for but we stayed and filled out those complaints that night. It was that important and I still have the original copy.
By "crowd" they must have meant the 20 or so officers who arrived on the scene after the beating started.
Oh well - the deck was stacked against us before we even started. Perhaps things would have turned out differently if my flash was on my camera phone that night.
11:08 pm
Sorry - I forgot to mention the most important part. The OPC recieved 6 written complaints on this case - not two. The seperate complaints were "supposed" to be combined into one master complaint. Not sure if that happened or if the complaints just "vanished". I know people showed up for their interviews. I will admit that after a year and a half some people might have wanted to do the best they could to move on with their life. To try and put some happiness where there was so much horror. I know they other complainants generally believed that the facts would come out in the end...they honestly and truthfully had faith in the system and that justice would prevail. I was the only one who had my doubts - I knew that with so much on the line there was nothign that the department wouldnt do to cover that up. I suppose I was right and that makes me sad. The criminal complaint wasn't dismissed until a year later. I myself was never charged but I did constantly keep in touch with the OPC investigator in the case.
This is going to be my last post. This is just bringing up too many memories of a bad situation. I was there and I know what happened. I wasn't drunk, I wasn't biased and I wasn't seeing things.
I am a woman in her 30s with a BS from a prestigous and well known university. I have a high level professional job and I own my own home. I have never, ever been in trouble with the law - I have never even gotten a speeding ticket but I suppose with enough power, rescources and the commimtment to allow time to drag out and facts to become faded the deck is stacked against you before you even began to play.
I don't regret filing that report that night and following up in afterwards. Maybe next time it will help the next person and maybe these officers and other ones like them will think twice before assualting (physically or verbally) citizens. The police are supposed to protect AND serve. At the end of the day a policeman is a man and like all people there are good AND bad. I ran into some of the bad ones that night. Thank God that mistake didnt cost me my life.
12:35 am
this atcheson was put up to a trial board, and they recommended that he be fired. THEN Ramsey gives him a break and only gives him 30 days. THEN he has the ballsack to appeal that decision?
If that were me id be fired on the spot. Who the fuck does this asshole think he is? Can the DC Government be anymore fucked up then it is now or has been in the last 25 or so years?
I Hope he reads this- FUCK YOU hows it feel atcheson? youre exposed.
good article Jason, I hope something is done with this guy. let us know the outcome of this story. And please pursue Forever Affected's complaint. Theyre right, the police have gotten away with a lot of bullshit lately. Granted not everyone is a bad seed, dont get me wrong here, but its those few who make them all look bad.
1:22 pm
Cathy Lanier is lying again, she is lying about Atcheson's standing when he took the Captain's test, he had all these complaints that had been written to Commander Hoye about him. Atcheson took off time to study for the test.
He illegally took some money off a teenager, the Mother complained, Commander Hoye made him give the money back, and put him back in the section because he was stepping on people's civil-rights. He went to Lanier, she told him to go back to focus-mission/ A/K/A vice dept. Lanier never discussed the removal with the Commander before making her decision, she called the Commander in and told him he had no right to give the money back to the Mother.Lanier then started an investigation on the Commander to see if he was wrong in his decicion to give back the money, ask her what the findings were. She then demoted the Commander down to Captain, all of this is personal with Lanier. Lanier would not know the truth if it slapped her in the face.
9:38 am
Paul Kurgan is the one that was working at home depot, and Atcheson allowed it to happen, because they are two peas in a pod , and they feel the same way about Black People.
You have some Assistant Chiefs that have domestic charges against them, it should be in their folder,Lanier coudl have purged them.
Lanier rehired Joshua Ederheimer, after he resigned because he wanted the job at the academy, he wanter Ramsey to remove the Black Commander and give him the position, when Ramsey told him he was not removing her, and that Joshua had two choices, to run the third district that he had assigned him to, or he could resign, he took the latter, as soon as Lanier was interim chief, she rehired him , he was working at headquarters, the minute she was sworn in she appointed him assistant chief, Joshua is the laziest person , he does not like to do any hard work, he likes to give orders, we the citizens paid for his education also.
Joshua, got numerous of complaints when he was at 6-D. Joshua has never
met a camera that he didn't like.
She takes her orders from Pete Nickles. Lanier has another employee that is a civilian employee (Yvonne Smith) that every department she has worked in they have recommended that she be fired, she does Lanier dirty work, Lanier gave her a new car to use as her own, when at 6-D we dont have enough cars for the officers. Ask Lanier how many cars Joshua carries home. Since Lanier has been in office, so much underhanded things have gone on, we need an outside auditor to go into that department and turn it upside down, the Finance office pales under the police action, they need to go back as far as when Dan was the finance officer .
9:55 am
I have never in my life seen so much apathy and disrespect than I have with the DC MPD upper echelon, when then seems to trickle down to the investigators and beat cops.
As a former police officer in a nearby VA county, who lives in DC, I'm afraid to call police to the scene if I need them. The few times I have needed to and have asked police to meet with me when it was clear that they weren't finding the suspect and giving up, they never did. I received callbacks from the 911 operator and supervisor to clarify where the suspect was last seen and I overheard profane bantor back and forth over the radio between the 911 operator and the responding units.
I think a significant amount of the officers with DC are hardworking, want to and like to do their jobs. But even the best of the best can become disgruntled in a system that rewards apalling behavior and criminal actions from within the ranks.
11:24 am
Robert Atcheson did nothing wrong but tell some adults that work for him what they really are a bunch of cry babyies and lazy ass people. The have no integrety and no work ethic. I guess when you call it you have to rely on the old race card to get your point out. This is a fact:
Bush, Chung, Garcia, Gatling, Louie White a Shakir Muslim and Randy Squires are just stealing DC taxpayer money by showing up to work. I guess when you can re-elect a crack head as mayor anything is possible. Where are these SLAPS( sorry lazy ass people) now, in easy jobs because they cant be trusted.
1:08 pm
Ask Det. Gatling why he is on limited duty, for falsifing a court document and transferred. Ask Det Garcia why his US Marshal deputation was revoked, Ask Det. Britt why he perjured himself and his US Marshal Deputation was revoked. Det. Bush and Det Chung also had their US Marshal special deputation revoked. Captain Atcheson just was doing his job and MPDC isnt
2:07 pm
The last two posts were from atcheson and kurigan. Only atcheson would degrade those guys like that to save his skin. But he will have to pay in district court. Also, atcheson is a racist. His personnel record reflects it. also he has two eeo complaints pending from lieutenants in the Third district. His favorite line is " I do not treat everyone equal, because everyone is not equal'. Lanier will run for cover after this. Atcheson is a racist and a homophob. How in the world will he work out in 3D? Watch him. All the officers who have race problems migrate around him. we talk about this all the time. But he wants to blame it on MPDC. His wife's whining convinced ramsey to keep him around when the trial board voted to fire him. go figure. Heres to a complete racist who will bite the dept in the ass if they don't put him somewhere.
7:26 pm
There are two sides to every story. I do think it is safe to say that if Atcheson was all that he would be gone. How could Ramsey fire him when his EAC Fitzgerald talked to people the same way. To answer your question, yes I am a member of MPD. Leave it to Cheriks and City Paper's tabloid journalism to only give one side of the story. Has anyone read the trial board transcripts? As for Ms. Lewis she sounds like a disgruntled employee. Could you be Rohnda Nunlley? The overwhellming majority of officers work hard under unbelivable circumstances. They respond to your calls for service and some of your silly ass problems, along with homicides and other things people should not see. As for affected forever I thing you are lying
1:17 pm
Everytime I see an article about the DC Police Department, I see disgruntled folks chiming in with their comments. It sounds like there is a need for lots of psychological attention for those mad people in this city. Some people walk around mad, always complaining. That makes you a miserable person to know. For those people who like to vent online after any article about the police and those who get off on gossiping and making false accusations about people, I say, get a life- one that keeps you so busy that you won't have time for this non-sense. When I called to find out who this Officer Betty Lewis was, they tell me she is not the police, just an old lady and a buddy of Robert Hoye's. That was evident because she knew too much inside information and used all these terms like she was the police. I am told that officers view her as an MO and that her husband must be flipping in his grave for the money she just recently put up for legal fees to help her buddy. With him out of office, she can't call the commander's office anymore to get the dirt on the lieutenants. The information she had about Atcheson was personal and it was biased, but info that only Hoye had. It shows that he told the personal business of his officers and breached their confidential files. As for "Forever Affected", I am sorry to hear about your situation and hope you will get counseling, first. DC Govt is what you make it out to be. It can run smoothly with professional people if the climate is set. When good examples are set, good examples must follow. Everybody just pray and ask God to help you to be better, more productive people. When you get better, the people around you get better and the world becomes a better place. When you die, let it be said that you did not live your life starting trouble, but that you did good things for people.
2:01 pm
I don't anything about that but you sound like a racist redneck as well. Citizens have the right to write what they want and feel how they feel. You must be a police officer to use the term MO. I know robert atcheson is a neck. Squires and the rest will win in court and he will pay heavy damages. There are two lieutenants at our district (3D) who have filed EEOs. They will win because this redneck cannot change. And I bet atcheson is to afraid to pull that crap now cause muslim and squires both would kick his ass.
So say what you will to defend him because you are probably a closet neck who is afraid to say anything to a brother or else. Come up to 3D and say it. sucker
2:16 pm
Whoa, buddy. Be careful not to burst a gut. Is it all about money and lawsuits or changing the climate in places where people believe racsim exist? You know that counseling I talked about, here's the phone number to MPD's EAP (202) 546-9684. You're going to be just fine.
2:34 pm
you are not a voice of reason, you are just a silly little man. You can say what you will. The money is to teach atcheson and his ilk a lesson. I need eap? yea right. But I will tell you this, you are the coward who bad mouths citizens whether they are MO or not. A real sucker you are and I will tell you to your face. Racist like you and atcheson must be and will be confronted and guess what, you will back down like the sucker you are.
3:57 pm
This is my one and only comment to (gd588) (he wears a hood),(voice of reason), I never claimed be a police officer, I never hid behind an alias, people only do that when they don't have the guts to stand up and say what they have to say, something I have never had a problem with, I say what I feel anywhere, and any place. I know what is going on in the mpd now, I knew what was happening and spoke about it before I ever knew Commander Hoey, I am a lady that do not ask for anything but the services we as citizens of D.C. are entitled to, I do not get any social services from D.C., I pay for what I get, and I will always demand that my neighbors get the same respect in ward 7 that people in other neighborhoods get .It is stupid for these buffons to try to hide behind the act of using the black dialect to get their ignorant words out, how pathetic.Pete Newsham can tell you that I know what goes on in mpd.
I know one thing for sure that (Yvonne Smith Jones),need to stop her fabrications about people , and good luck Atcheson and Kurgan in your day of exposure. This old lady will take you to court for slander, so continue your tirade.
4:57 pm
For Betty Lewis. I thought you were a police officer because you knew so much about personal accounts of what was going on between the former commander and the lieutenants, even though it had its own spin on things, which made it a pack of lies. Either YOU are the liar or the people you are working for are liars. Again, when I asked about you, I was told that you were an MO, who likes throwing money around. That says it all. That is how the people where you live think of you. That means a person in need of mental observation. All of us white guys don't stick together. This department is a family, for the most part. The other people you mention in your message don't seem to know who you are. There's a place you can call too. 1 (888) 793-4357
6:33 pm
Hey " He wears a Hood" the real racist here sounds like you. I know Squires and Muslim very well and I have never heard them talk like you. You are not scaring anyone and I think you are an angry man that has some deep issues. I don't know if Atcheson is a racist or not. Niether do you. I would like to think that if he was he would have left this place along time ago and moved to the hills. We have room for improvement in alot of areas, but anger and hate is not he way to do it