This man should be removed from his job,” Reese-Turner said. “Something has to be done that is more significant than a one-day suspension that makes no sense and is unacceptable. Instead, police said the officer should have waited for that proper backup to support the stop.Īfter McGrath spoke, several people from the public spoke and said eight hours was not enough, with some people calling for the officer to be fired.īrian Reese-Turner, president of the Main Line Branch of the NAACP, described the idea of a one-day suspension as unacceptable. But his reason for having the weapon drawn was due to his inability to see through the car’s heavily-tinted windows. One thing the officer did was to approach the car with his gun in his hands. In a follow-up investigation, police cited departmental policy violations by the officer, such as not having his body camera turned on and failing to deescalate the situation. The incident was captured on video by people passing the area at the time. After the driver stopped in a parking lot, police said, she declined to follow the officer’s directions and was eventually removed by force from the car and arrested. 8 when a Lower Merion officer reported witnessing a driver following too closely behind another vehicle as she drove along Conshohocken State Road in Bala Cynwyd.Īccording to the report, the driver failed to stop for over a mile after the officer turned on his lights. LOWER MERION – The Lower Merion Board of Commissioners voted to suspend a police officer for 80 hours in connection with a January incident when he used a Taser on a black woman and forcibly removed her from a car during a traffic stop.īut the decision for the 80-hour suspension came after police superintendent Mike McGrath recommended just an eight-hour suspension.
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