A police officer in Bartow, Florida has “resigned” after he admitted to calling a gay man who’d called for assistance a “fuc*ing fa**ot.”
Interim Chief Bryan Dorman stated he would have fired Officer Timothy Daughtry had he not stepped down from his position, reports The Ledger.
Daughtry was responding to a call from Tyron Smith, the program manager of the George Harris Youth Shelter. A 12-year-old boy with a “history of unruly behavior” had pulled the fire alarm at the shelter when there was no fire, a first-degree misdemeanor, and administrators wanted him to face consequences.
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Smith asked Daughtry to arrest the boy, and the two got into an argument over whether that was an excessive move. Smith, who is Black, made a comment that if the boy was Black, he would have already been handcuffed, according to a report.
“That made me upset,” Daughtry said during the followup interview. “I said, well that’s f—–g bullshit, you know. I said shut the f–k up. At that point, Sarge told me to be quiet and to walk away — to get in the car. And as I was walking away, I said, ‘F—–g f—–t’ and then I got in my vehicle.”
Daughty defended his use of the slur as “just a term that I’ve used growing up, throughout life. It’s no different than if I was to say ‘Well that’s gay.’ It’s not, it’s just a term for disdainment, for a particular situation.”
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However, Smith is gay and said in an interview that he presents as obviously gay.
Dorman determined that “regardless of you recognizing the complainant as gay, you used profane language and a pejorative term directly toward someone who was asking police for assistance.”
“To engage in an argument with a member of the community and to use an LGBTQ slur during that argument is unacceptable by anyone, especially a member of the law enforcement community,” Dorman said. “I will not tolerate that type of behavior from any member of this organization.”
pavel20
so the officer’s basic defense was his using an offensive gay slur was the same as when he uses a phrase offensive to gay men?
Mack
Good, another uncaring Police officer without a position to harm a member of the community.
olfwob
I bet he will just move on to work in the next town nearby.
wikidBSTN
Kudos to the chief who knows real BS when he hears it. He did himself, his department and the community a favor by getting rid of one of those often-mentioned “bad apples”.
darkanser
And they wonder why there are protests against police!!!
frapachino
Don’t judge an entire profession negatively because of a few bad actors! You’d think gays and blacks would know this better than most! This cop was an ass and I’m glad he’s gone! Blue lives matter!
Cam
@frapachino
No surprise, the same account that always jumps in to defend any Republican anti-LGBTQ bigot, and attacks any LGBTQ victim immediately is in here defending bigoted cops AND turns the post into an excuse to attack “Gays and Blacks”.
You’re so…..predictable.
loren_1955
Always fascinating of late that cops keep giving us more and more reasons to hate and despise them. Seems if they really cared about the citizens the good cops would cull this garbage out.
Essie
So, it’s a term he has used “growing up, throughout life.” Well, maybe he won’t use it again after losing his job over it. But, unfortunately, no. He will probably get another job as a police officer in another small town in Florida or Georgia and continue as before. The vow to Protect and Serve means nothing to people like him.
vinnieboiblue
This is how they protect and serve the public, choosing which side of the spectrum to offend. Just as Mr. Smith said, if the kid was Black he’d be arrested shot and or killed. Any wonder why cops are being ambushed? They are not so innocent and it is more than just a ‘few bad apples” as Trump claims.
jdr11201
Hmm, yea
Then policeman wonder why they are so hated? It’s B/S like this young man’s went thru. I believe that most PD’s are inherently born racist bigoted A-hole. Just born with that inner DNA like natzi hidden inside them wait to leap out.
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The only good cop, was Opie Taylor’s dad & Barnie 😛
frapachino
They are only hated by bigoted malcontents looking for power! Good people support the police!
Cam
@frapachino
Translation: The same account that always defends anti-LGBTQ bigots, also seems to support unarmed black people being murdered by cops.
Rakkaus
The story here is that a racist Black adult grown man Tyron Smith was trying to force a cop to arrest a 12-year-old boy just because the boy is White! That’s f’ed up! Tyron Smith is a monster!
This spin over one word is trivial. The cop was called to scene by the aggressor here: Tyron Smith. Then Smith started a fight and antagonized the cop with god-knows-what kind of vulgar insults which included calling Timothy Daughtry a racist for not arresting a child for pulling a fire alarm. Smith is not some innocent victim. And all he did was get called one word amidst a vulgar argument he started then the understandably upset cop left. And he has since resigned from the police force already, but this narcissist Mr. Smith still wants to play victim to get media attention and pity (does he have a GoFundMe up yet to pay for his emotional damage from this traumatizing racist police brutality?).
Arrogant racist bigot Tyron Smith obviously was never in fear for his life or safety since he was the one who stopped the cop from leaving to start an argument, insisting a cop arrest a boy just because of his skin color. After Smith had made a frivolous 911 call in the first place. Talk about unruly behavior; grown man guilty of same but worse offense as 12-yr-old child Smith demanded the cop arrest! Sick. If anyone deserved to be arrested, it would’ve been Smith, but Daughtry knows in current BLM lunatic climate, cops are not allowed to arrest Black criminals under any circumstances, if Daughtry even just tapped Smith on the shoulder, the whole city of Bartow, Florida would go up in #BurnLootMurder smoke.
Quite a contrast to Queerty’s total lack of coverage of rampant truly terrifying Black Lives Matter activists’ unprovoked attacks on gay men (like Brandon Straka and his bf) just walking down the street at night calling them “fa**ots” AND assaulting them…BLM actually threatening lives and perpetrating VIOLENCE on gay guys gets ignored by Queerty dutifully pushing BLM bogus narrative agenda…
What a surprise Hornet’s recent 2020 election poll of American queer men found 45% support Trump to only 51% Biden (a story also oddly ignored by Queerty); Democrats and liberals do NOT have our backs!
Thad
I shudder to think what you were like as a 12-year-old.