Like that you went through an accident scene.
We continue to follow the interl
affairs investigation against to Toledo
Police officers into the incident you
just saw there, Officer Adam Ho.
Was suspended for 40 days,
with his partner Ashlyn
Plouffe suspended for one day.
It stemmed from this intense vi.
Both officers can be seen gettig
into a handson struggle with two
women in the car during yesterds
Toledo City Council meeting.
Tiffany Whitman,
Venice Williams and Sir Sandra
McPherson did not hold back ther
feelings about police disciplin.
Some believe the officers
were not disciplined enough.
And worry about the message
it sends to the community.
If they were too young white wo,
this would not have happened.
TPD hasn't been making strives r
greatness and has been connectig
with the community more so than
I've ever seen in my 43 years.
So for two officers to sting,
that is disgusting.
We also talked with Toledo
Mayor Wade Kapsi Cabbage,
he said It's important to note.
TPD Self reported the incident
after an internal audit and
calls the suspensions justified,
saying the incident happened
because officers went in with
a confrontational attitude.
The incident also caught the attention of
the head of the Toledo Buffalo Soldiers,
who is also a former police off.
Michael Sandlin joins us in stuo
tonight with more and Mike Earlc
thinks this was a failure in training.
But does he agree with all of
the councilwoman's comments?
Well, Melissa Mack tells me that after
watching the footage of the incident,
he hopes the mental health of
these officers has taken seriou,
saying law enforcement official,
in control of themselves never fly off
the handle the way Hobbes and Pluff did.
One thing he wanted to walk back on was
the implication from some of the council
members this incident was racially motivated.
Just because the two police officers were
white and the two females were black,
that doesn't mean it was a racial incident.
I think it's it's an incident of
lack of training and lack of empathy.
Before joining the Toledo Buffalo Soldiers,
Earl Mack was a 40 year veteran member of
law enforcement and he says watching the
body Cam video showing the altercation
between officers Plouffe and Hobbs and
the two women the night of January 1st.
We saw nothing that resembled proper training
man we we always frown at officer just
walking up to the car and yankig
someone out of it and not even d
had a verbal conversation with m
and then that that person becoms
the citizen becomes angry becaue
they don't know what's going on.
Max says these officers shouldn't just
be suspended, they need to be retrained.
I would recommend some training
and keep your emotions in check.
These officers go through a lot every day,
day in and day out.
They see all kinds of things
and sometimes that that affect.
Their emotions as well
as their personal lives.
So those training should include
those kind of thing and especiay
psychological assessment.
But Max says an even bigger concern is
who allowed them to get to this point.
At least for the female officer,
she's I think this is the second
or third time that she's been
involved in an altercation like this.
Something is wrong that points
right back to that Police Depart
every It points right back to
those command officers who cread
an atmosphere so comfortable tht
they could behave this way,
he says now. He hopes the Toledo
Police Department takes notes from the
incident and says that incidents like
these hurt Chief Trenley's attes
to build bridges with the commu.
This tear, this, this tears tho,
those bridges down.
Police officers are from the community.
They represent the community.
They should.
And if you're going to have
good community police relations,
then then those officers,
they they need to be again.
They need to be trained in that.
Now, in regard to Councilwoman
Sir Sandra Mcpherson's comments,
this will convince some people n
the community to start packing
a gun or wants to remind the
public that everyone has the rit
to resist an unlawful arrest,
but you can't take back shooting
and killing a police officer.
Reporting in studio.
I'm Michael Sandlin from UTOL 1.