ABILENE, TX-- An Abilene Police officer is pursuing a law suit against the City of Abilene and Police Chief Stan Standridge.
Lieutenant Brad McGary was fired from the department in 2017, but was later reinstated after a Civil Service Commission investigation.
In March of 2017, McGray was suspended indefinitely due to several different issues including excessive use of force and not respecting other employees. "The department was ordered to return Lt. McGary to work as a lieutenant," said McGary's lawyer Terry Boone. "We intend to show that the department has not followed the decisions by the commission."
McGary claims that he was treated unfairly and that he was made to do things that no other Lt. was made to do.
He performed duties usually assigned to an administrative sergeant, such as grant writing and coordinating events.
Another example of mistreatment was that every morning Abilene Police Department holds regular staff meetings and that all police officers above the rank of sergeant attend the meetings, but Standridge has refused to allow McGary to attend.
Abilene Police Chief Standridge release a statement on the case. "The City of Abilene cannot provide comment on ongoing litigation. However, the city can acknowledge that Lt. Brad McGary was suspended by the police department, and the Civil Service Commission upheld a 90-day suspension related to two violations of policy: Use of Force (Safe Handling of Conducted Electrical Weapons) and General Rules of Conduct (Conduct and Behavior and Respect for Fellow Employees). As such, the District Attorney's Office and the City Attorney's Office classified Lt. Brad McGary as a Brady Officer pursuant to the Michael Morton Act."
This story was first published by KTXS.
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Standridge is a little too full of himself and has become a liability to the city of Abilene. "Showboat" Standridge was also recently the cause of a jury pool of hundreds to be discarded because he thought everyone needed to hear him talk, about things that tainted the pool and required another pool to be called, at taxpayer expense. He shut down a small group that held charity poker tournaments, even though everything was legal and transparent, forcing them to hold events outside of Abilene. The Roosevelt Club, a private poker room that operates legally in several Texas cities, soon to open in SA, with the approval of SAPD and the DA, was forced to abandon it's opening in Abilene after "holier than thou"
Standridge threatened to shut them down.
APD has been slow and ineffective in solving several high profile murders as well.
Perhaps it's time to send that fool packing......
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