Sept. 10, 2024

The QUESTIONABLE Scandal Of The Columbia P.D.

The QUESTIONABLE Scandal Of The Columbia P.D.

In this episode of *Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite*,  Jim explores a very questionable civil case involving the Columbia Police Department in Mississippi, where five officers, including Chief Michael Kelly, resigned.  Jim details the a lawsuit...

In this episode of *Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite*, Jim explores a very questionable civil case involving the Columbia Police Department in Mississippi, where five officers, including Chief Michael Kelly, resigned. Jim details the a lawsuit filed by Ginger Upton and her daughter Sarah Beach, highlighting troubling claims surrounding a traffic stop and alleged illegal body cavity searches by Officer Delta Ward. Stay tuned as Jim continues to follow this developing story.

Timestamps
03:23 Resignations Shake Columbia Police Department
04:16 Civil Lawsuit Filed Against Police Officers
11:04 Allegations of Illegal Searches and Assault
17:48 Officer Delta Ward Responds to Allegations
23:42 Certification Issues of Officer Jamie Moulds

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Hey, everyone, welcome back to Exposed, Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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I am your host, Jim Chapman, and we are jumping

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right into today's wild episode of Exposed. And look, we

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cover it all on this show. Maybe you're a famous

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football player, or maybe you are a politician who's acting bad,

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or maybe you're a trusted member of the society like

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a police officer, and you are doing the wrong thing,

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you may end up on this show. And that is

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what has happened to five officers of the Columbia Lice

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Department in Mississippi. And look, y'all, this this story is

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Craig Cray. That's the best way I can describe this one.

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I'm gonna bring you through the whole thing, but I

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need to preface this one with none of this has

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been adjudicated. This is a civil case that has just

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been filed, and all of the people I'm gonna mention

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are innocent until proven guilty. I don't know, I wasn't there.

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I don't have firsthand knowledge of any of this, but

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I'm certainly going to report what the accusations are and

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let you kind of follow the case. And y'all, this

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has just occurred within the last few weeks. So I'm

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gonna bring you back to August sixteenth and bring you

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to Columbia, Mississippi. And a newsflash came out across the

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internet and it said five officers submit resignations from the

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Columbia Police Department. Mayor says, and I'm going to credit

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W Damn seven wdam seven, and it says the Columbia

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Police Department is in the midst of a major shakeup

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after several officers, including Chief Michael Kelly, submitted their resignations

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or quit according to the mayor. Columbia Mayor Justin McKenzie

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confirmed that the chief and five other officers have either

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turned in their resignations or walked away from the police

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department over the past week. Mackenzie said one of the

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officers has since asked to rescind her resignation. According to

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the mayor, Kelly tendered his resignation Friday, that being the chief,

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and it will be effective at the end of the day.

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On Tuesday, August twentieth, after the city's board meeting, the

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mayor said Kelly left on good terms. The mayor says

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two other administrative officers also quit on Friday, and walked away.

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Mackenzie says two officers submitted resignations late last week and

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early this week, but the resignations weren't presented to the

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board since the meeting was not until August twentieth. On Thursday,

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another Columbia Police Department officer resigned after learning she had

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been placed on administrative leave pending an outcome of any

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action taken at the board meeting. The reasons behind the

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chiefs and other officers resignations are unknown as of this time.

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Well I know what they were. Mackenzie said all Columbia

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Police Department shifts will be covered and said he was

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confident that officers will maintain safety in town. Mackenzie said

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he has spoken with the Marion County Sheriff, Berkeley Hall,

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and has his support if any assistance is needed. And

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so that came out. That was on the sixteenth of August.

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And look, if you're in Columbia, Mississippi, you're like, ma'am,

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what the hell? We just have people five officers resign,

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one of them being the leader, the chief. That's enough

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to make you kind of wonder what is going down

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in Columbia, Mississippi. Well, it didn't take long to figure

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that out shortly thereafter. As a matter of fact, on

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August twenty second, just a week later, in the State

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District Court of Southern District of Mississippi in the Eastern Division,

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there's a civil suit filed. This was filed on behalf

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of plaintiff's Ginger Upton in plainiff Sarah Beach. Ginger Upton

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lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as does Sarah Beach, and they

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file this lawsuit against Jamie Molds who is a defendant.

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He is a police officer with the Columbia Police Department.

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Chris Bush, also a police officer with the City of

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Columbia Police Department. Lance Pourier a police officer with the

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City of Colombia Police Department. Austin Riles, a police officer

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with the City of Columbia Police Department. And Seth Blackman,

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a police officer with the City of Columbia Police Department.

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Delta Ward also known as Delta Hit, who is a

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police officer with the Columbia Police Department. Michael Kelly, who

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is the Chief of Police of Colombia. So what did

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they do? You may wonder, what are the facts of

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this case? So this is according to and it's important

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to note that this is according to the plaintiffs in

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this case. Again, that's Ginger Upton and Sarah Beach, the

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filers of this lawsuit. So they say, on or about

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January thirtieth of twenty twenty four, Ginger Upton and Sarah

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Beach and two male passengers, they're traveling down what's known

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as Lafayette Street in Columbia, Mississippi, and they were going

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at what they say is a safe and reasonable speed.

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traffic laws. And it says in the civil lawsuit, I'm

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going to quote this verbatim to understand just how cruel, invasive, callous,

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and or malitious the defendant's actions were. It's important to

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note that missed Upton and Miss Beach are a mother

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and daughter. Nevertheless, while proceeding down Lafayette Street at a

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safe and reasonable rate of speed and while obeying all

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traffic laws, the planets were pulled over by Officer Jamie

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Molds with the Columbia Police Department. So Miss Upton, she's

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driving the vehicle and upon seeing Officer molds blue lights flashing, right,

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she does what we all would do. She pulls over

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into a nearby parking lot. It was actually a region's

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bank in that area. So Officer Molds he approaches the

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vehicle and he indicates that he pulled the vehicle over

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because he could not see if the occupants were wearing

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their seat belts. And in the lawsuit it notes, in

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other words, officer Molds pulled the vehicle over not because

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he saw a violation, but because he did not or

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could not see a violation. That's pretty crazy reason to

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pull someone over. Now that's what they say, of course,

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and I'm sure there's bodycam footage that's going to come

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out on this. He pulled us over because he couldn't

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see if we were breaking the law or not. I

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found that so funny when I read that in the

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civil suit. So it moves on and it says consequently,

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at no point did Officer Molds have probable cause to

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believe a crime was being committed. And you have to

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if you're going to pull someone over, you have to

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have probable cause, otherwise you could pull any and everybody

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over for any and everything. Right, So, upon discovering that

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all occupants in the vehicle were wearing their seat belts

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in that no crimes or other violations were being committed.

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Officer Molds began further questioning the plainiffs as well as

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the two male occupants that were in the vehicle. Now,

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during this time, other officers with the Columbia Police Department

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were dispatched and they arrive on scene, and the planiffs

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and two male occupants were removed from the vehicle when

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that backup arrived, if you will, Once the two male

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occupants and the two females mother and daughter were outside

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of the vehicle, the police, according to what the planiffs say,

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conducted an illegal and unauthorized search of the vehicle. During

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the search, they found a very small amount of marijuana

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or a roach, as it stated in the lawsuit, Apparently

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one of the male occupants he admitted to smoking marijuana

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in the vehicle of the day before, but he denied

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having any other illegal or illicit substances on his person

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or in the vehicle. Upon completing the unlawful search of

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the vehicle. And you notice they keep pointing to that,

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it's important to note, I'm just gonna say this right here.

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If an officer smells marijuana, he can search a vehicle.

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He doesn't need your permission. At that point, he has

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what's known as probable cause at that point because he

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smelled marijuana, and there's no way to know if somebody

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actually smell marijuana, so they could say I smell marijuana,

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I search the vehicle and there was none. It's kind

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of a weird law. Regardless of that, they did find marijuana.

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So he's now you can throw out the unlawful search.

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All he's got to say is he smelled it before

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he searched. It goes on to say, upon completing that

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unlawful search, the police felled discover any more illegal substances, contraband,

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or criminal violations of any kind, and he still discovered

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the one. So it doesn't matter if they're anymore. But

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it gets better, y'all. At some point during the illegal

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and unauthorized search, one of the females in the car,

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as a matter of fact, it was miss Upton. She

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voices her opinion that there were some bad cops at

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the Columbia Police Force and that she had actually had

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been harassed in the past something similar to that effect.

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So the police officers they hear that, and one of

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them get you know, he figures it out and he says, okay,

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no matter what we do with this woman right now,

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she is going to say we sexually harassed her or something.

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So he gets on this radio and he calls a

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female officer to the scene. Now, it says in the

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lawsuit that it must be noted at all times the

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occupants of the vehicle they were following all the instructions

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given by the police, and so at that point, what

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it's saying in this suit is there was no need

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to call a female officer. Well, bullshit. So shortly thereafter,

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the female officer Delta Ward, she arrives on the scene

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after being called, and Officer Delta she approaches the occupants

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of the car. This is where it gets really crazy, y'all,

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And it says, while placing latex gloves upon her hands

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and popping them on her wrist in an intimidating and

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threatening manner, just like when you go to the doctor. Right,

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they pull the rubber gloves on and they pop them.

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The plaineoffs. They were frightened by Officer Delta's intimidating and

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threatening action, but they were still unaware that soon they

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were going to be subjected to nothing less than a

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sexual assault on the side of a public roadway and

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broad daylight. Officer Delta then escorted miss Upton to the

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front passenger side of her vehicle, where she performed an

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illegal and unauthorized roadside body cavity search in plain view

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of the public and in violation of miss Upton's clearly

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established constitutional rights. It goes on to say, to be clear,

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without justification a warrant or consent, Officer Delta used excessive

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force on miss Upton by placing her fingers along and

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forcing her fingers inside of miss Upton's vagina multiple times,

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all in plain view of the public. Officer Delta also

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pulled plane of Upton's pants aside to where her vagina

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was exposed to public view, unbelievably, while Officer Delta was

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performing her illegal, invasive, humiliating, an unconstitutional search of Miss Upton.

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A group of construction workers and I'm not laughing at this, y'all,

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but I mean, if this is true, it's absolutely horrible.

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But it's almost like something in a movie. A group

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of construction workers were using a nearby atm and witnessed

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the entire incident. Obviously, not only was miss Upton subjected

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to a sexual assault and battery by Officer Delta on

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the side of the road in broad daylight. She was

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also subjected to public humiliation as the construction workers began

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to stare, point and laugh upon witnessing the illegal search.

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To be certain, at no time to Miss Upton consent

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to such a search, and Officer Delta did not obtain

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any warrant prior to performing this. Once Officer Delta completed

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the illegal roadside body cavity search of Miss Upton, she

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accompanied her back to the area where Miss Beach was waiting.

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Officer Delta then asked Miss Beach to come with her. Dejectively,

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Miss Upton tried to explain to her daughter what was

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about to happen, but could not compose herself enough to

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warn Miss Beach she was about to be sexually assaulted

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on the side of a public roadway in broad daylight.

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Officer Delta led Miss Beach to the same area where

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she had just performed the unauthorized search of her mother.

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Miss Upton. Then Officer Delta used excessive force on Miss

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Beach by performing yet another unconstitutional body cavity search. Just

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as with playing if Upton, Officer Delta placed her fingers

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along and forced her fingers inside of Miss Beach's vagina

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multiple times, and yet again, Officer Delta exposed plaintiff beaches

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vagina to public view, thereby subjecting Miss Beach to public humiliation.

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Miss Upton was forced to stand by helplessly and watch

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his officer Delta sexually assaulted her daughter on the side

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of a public road, in broad daylight and in plain

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view of the public. Based upon information and belief defendit,

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Delta used the same gloves that she performed Miss Upton's

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search with and did not change gloves before performing miss

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Upton's search. It must be noted that neither illegal searches

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produced any drugs or illegal substances. So there you have it.

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That's the gist of it. They get pulled over, and

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according to the plainiffs, they both got fingered essentially by

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the officer. And if that is true, it's horrible. With

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these lawsuits, they sue everybody. They sue to the chief

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of police because he didn't train him correctly. They'll sue

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the other officers because maybe they saw it and they

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didn't stop it. Now, there's a lot of moving parts

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in this case. You know, it should be pretty easy

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to dismiss this. If there's body camera footage, but not

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all the time are body cameras turned on, and maybe

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they weren't on in this case. I don't know what

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the policies are in Columbia, Mississippi. This is pretty breaking.

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So what happens at this point, Well, all of the

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officers I named at the beginning of that lawsuit, they

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received a summons to appear in court and answer to

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that lawsuit. Now, it's also interesting to note that on

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the twenty sixth of August twenty twenty four, the plaintiffs

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did offer what's done as a voluntary dismissal against one

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of the officers, a god by the name of Seth Blackman.

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They came back and said, we're not gonna sue that

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particular officer. I'm not really sure why, but that is

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what it is. So we'll move on. Because guess what

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the female officer, Miss Delta in this case. She answered,

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she came out and spoke out on this lawsuit, and

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of course she says it was bullshit. And I'll read

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you that article. It says a former Columbia police officer

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speaking out after two women filed a lawsuit alleging the

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officer and their colleagues violated their rights during a routine

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traffic stop. Playing this Ginger Upton and Sarah Beach filed

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a civil lawsuit on Thursday, August twenty second at the

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US District Court in Hattiesburg sent Blue Boom. The suit

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stems from a traffic stop on January twentieth of twenty

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twenty four on Lafayette Street in Columbia. In the suit,

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Upton and Beach claimed that officers with the Columbia Police

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Department violated their constitutional rights through the use of excessive

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force in illegal search and seizure Planiffs also accused former

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death sergeant Dealt To Ward of conducting an illegal body

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cavity search. The lawsuit compares the search to nothing less

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than sexual assault on the side of a public roadway

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in broad daylight. Ward, however, is now speaking out against

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those accusations. The former officer released a statement to The

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Colombian Progress on Monday, August twenty six she denied the

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claims made by Upton and Beach in the lawsuit. She

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later released the same statement to Michael Clark of the

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w Damn News, which is the article on referencing some

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recent social media posts have made false statements and have

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slandered my name over this matter. Since affording people there

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right to innocence until proven guilty seems to be a

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thing of the past, please allow me to interject some

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facts about this incident, and then Ward details the January

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thirtieth traffic stop. So I'm going to read you Miss

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Delta Ward's full statement. She says. I am Officer Delta Ward,

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formerly of the City of Columbia Police Department. I feel

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compelled to make a statement regarding a recent lawsuit alleging

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misconduct on my part. To start, I want everyone to

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know that I was cleared of any wrongdoing after an

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investigation in review by the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen.

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Some recent social media posts have made false statements and

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have slandered my name over this matter. Since affording people

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their right to innocence until proven guilty seems to be

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a thing of the past, Please allow me to interject

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some facts about this incident. On the day in question,

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the subject was pulled over in a routine traffic stop

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that I was not present for. This is when I

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was first notified of the traffic stop and was called

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to the scene to search the female occupants At the

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time of my employment at the police Department, I was

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a certified police officer performing desk sergeant duties only in

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all capital letters, but as all the officers are required,

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I was doing what my superiors asked me to do.

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An officer that was at the scene picked me up

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from the precinct where I was working as a desk sergeant.

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The officer then drove me to the scene. When I

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arrived at the scene, I politely introduced myself to the

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female subjects and asked them if I could search them.

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They consented to that search, and I proceeded to ask

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a female driver to step with me to a private location.

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That location was on the left side of a patrol unit.

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Between the driver and passenger side doors. We were facing

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away from everyone in all traffic, so that I could

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perform the search of her body in private. She was

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completely out of sight from the mail officers at the

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scene and all civilians that may have been passing by.

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I then placed a set of latex gloves on before

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performing what's known as a palm down search of the undergarments.

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And that's where y'all. She would use the backside of

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her hands so that she can't grab. This is a

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standard technique used by law enforcement to minimize these type

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of accusations. This is the only technique I have ever

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used capital letters in that after asking the subject to

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loosen her clothing, the subject at no time dropped her pants.

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She had three layers of pants on. I conducted the

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search with the palm down technique. Her vagina was in

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fact never exposed. Once I determined she did not have contraband,

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I was then instructed to perform the same search on

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the other female. At that time, I discarded the used

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gloves and got a new set to search the second

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female with her consent, using the same palm down technique,

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and again no contraband was found. So for anyone who

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doubts these facts, there is available camera footage to coroborate

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my statement. Like I said before, this is a matter

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that has been investigated and reviewed by the Mayor and

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the Board of Aldermen. I was told that I was

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in compliance with the law and was cleared of her

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own doing. Anyone who assumes that I acted outside of

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the professionalism is misinformed. I am an officer of integrity

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and I have served my community well. And that is

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the statement from desk Sergeant Delta Ward. Ward also says

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there is camera footage available to coroborate her statement, although

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that footage as of this recording has not been available,

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doesn't mean it doesn't exist. With the police officer offering

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up in her statement that camera footage exists that is

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going to coroborate everything she's saying. It sounds to me

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like she may be telling the truth and these people

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may be full of shit. Now, the problem with these

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lawsuits when they come out, these civil suaits is that

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the people accused, they really dig into them, and these

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lawyers they're looking for whatever they can find that is

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not right in the past of whoever it is they're chasing.

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And I'm going to reference this article for you, and

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this is from the Colombian Progress, which is a local

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news source in Columbia, and it says former Columbia Police

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Department officer Jamie Molds, who is named in the lawsuit

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alleging misconduct and sexual assault and legally worked for the

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Columbia Police Department. After his certification lapsed during the time

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of the incident, Molds completed self sponsored training at the

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Southern Regional Public Safety Institute in twenty thirteen and received

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his certification as officer. Certification however, Molds was out of

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law enforcement for more than five years, so that basically

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rendered his certification invalid. He would have needed to complete

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a two hundred hour refresher course is what it's known

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as to validate that certification again, so he gets hired

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after those five years off on January second of twenty

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twenty four, this incident having occurred on January thirtieth of

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twenty twenty four. Michael Kelly, his chief, was notified on

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February second of twenty twenty four that Molds needed to

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complete a refresher course and it never occurred. Kelly was

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notified by the of course people suing him that that, hey,

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this dude was not certified this officer. So that has

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created an issue as well, because you know, honestly, he

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should have been certified. Now that has nothing to do

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with any sort of sexual assault. I mean, the procedures

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in this case. You know, whether you're a police officer

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or not, let's be honest. And he had nothing to

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do with the search of these people. But you know,

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anything they can find to say this whole thing is invalid.

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These lawyers are going to find and that was something

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that they indeed did find. I've searched everywhere. There is

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no body camera footage. It has been released yet, as

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I said, but I can promise you if it is,

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I will definitely upload it to the Patreon for the

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Patreon subscribers, so you could look for that if it surfaces.

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But that is a crazy story that is just trending

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the internet right now. Another scandal involving a Mississippi police department,

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in this case multiple officers in the chief in Columbia.

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