{"id":3179,"date":"2014-01-08T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:55:10","slug":"in-case-you-missed-it-officer-roid-rage-gets-40000-from-the-city-of-canton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"In case you missed it: Officer Roid Rage gets $40,000 from the City of Canton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this when it happened, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/article\/20131105\/NEWS\/131109669\/?tag=1\">here it is<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A police officer fired and later reinstated after threatening to shoot a motorist will never patrol the city&#8217;s streets again.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Harless, a 15-year veteran, will receive $40,000 from the city, a neutral employment recommendation and a retired-officer ID in exchange for his resignation as part of a legal settlement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in addition to the $40,000 he get&#8217;s 50 state lifetime concealed carry and the city can&#8217;t let future employers know he&#8217;s a ticking time bomb.<\/p>\n<p>And this is rich:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the settlement reached this week, the city has dropped its appeal of an arbitrator&#8217;s ruling that cleared the way for Harless to return to work pending medical clearance. Harless, too, will drop all claims, including a lawsuit that <strong>the city retaliated against him for applying for workers&#8217; compensation<\/strong> and a grievance involving vacation and sick leave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t remember, here&#8217;s a rough time-line of how things happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Officer Harless threatens to kill a citizen during a traffic stop<\/li>\n<li>Ohioans for Concealed Carry post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kassP7zI0qc\">video<\/a> of the traffic stop<\/li>\n<li>Internal Affairs finds\u00a0<em>other<\/em> cases of Harless behaving badly<\/li>\n<li>Harless files a workers comp claim that he&#8217;s suffering PTSD from an incident in&#8230;.<strong>2003<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Canton fires Harless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clearly those first three points had absolutely nothing to do with Canton wanting him off the force.<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, at least now they&#8217;re rid of him and he can safely\u00a0<em>apply for a job at a different police department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I certainly feel safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this when it happened, but here it is: A police officer fired and later reinstated after threatening to shoot a motorist will never patrol the city&#8217;s streets again. Daniel Harless, a 15-year veteran, will receive $40,000 from the city, a neutral employment recommendation and a retired-officer ID in exchange for his resignation as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}