Post by Logan on Apr 19, 2016 0:38:30 GMT -6
Ex-Spokane police chief believes ouster was engineered, new filing says
The day he lost his job as Spokane’s police chief, Frank Straub sat down for an early-morning meeting with city officials at Perkins restaurant and was handed a manila envelope.
It’s unclear if Straub ate or even drank a cup of coffee, but after City Administrator Theresa Sanders and City Attorney Nancy Isserlis told him the reasons he was being forced from City Hall, he came to believe his ouster was a “premeditated and engineered plan” by Mayor David Condon to help in his re-election, according to new court documents filed by Straub and his attorney, Mary Schultz.
The new filings in his lawsuit also reveal that a city attorney offered Straub a “name clearing hearing” after he was fired.
The court documents, part of Straub’s lawsuit against the city, give some new details on the events leading to and following Straub’s ouster in September, but they keep to Straub’s contention that concerns about his behavior were not relayed to him, and the city didn’t properly investigate the accusations before firing him.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/apr/18/ex-spokane-police-chief-believes-ouster-was-engine/
The day he lost his job as Spokane’s police chief, Frank Straub sat down for an early-morning meeting with city officials at Perkins restaurant and was handed a manila envelope.
It’s unclear if Straub ate or even drank a cup of coffee, but after City Administrator Theresa Sanders and City Attorney Nancy Isserlis told him the reasons he was being forced from City Hall, he came to believe his ouster was a “premeditated and engineered plan” by Mayor David Condon to help in his re-election, according to new court documents filed by Straub and his attorney, Mary Schultz.
The new filings in his lawsuit also reveal that a city attorney offered Straub a “name clearing hearing” after he was fired.
The court documents, part of Straub’s lawsuit against the city, give some new details on the events leading to and following Straub’s ouster in September, but they keep to Straub’s contention that concerns about his behavior were not relayed to him, and the city didn’t properly investigate the accusations before firing him.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/apr/18/ex-spokane-police-chief-believes-ouster-was-engine/