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San Diego Officer Resigns After Winning "Dumbest Holtzclaw Ever" Prize

6/2/2024

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This would actually be kind of funny if Hair's supervisor wasn't still working there, to my knowledge.

From CBS8:

"SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Police Department officer resigned from his post after he accidentally locked himself in the backseat with a woman for more than an hour while he was transporting her to Las Colinas Women's Detention Center. 

On the night of Aug. 15, 2023, the two-year police veteran, Hair was one of several officers to help with the arrest of two people suspected of car theft. One of the people arrested was an unidentified woman who also had a bench warrant out for her arrest. 
Minutes into the transport, Hair and the woman began to speak. Their conversation was picked up by Hair's body camera that was attached to his uniform.
Woman: "Are you married?"
Officer Hair: "Why are you asking that?"
Woman: "You're not too bad. What's it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That's the way I see s---t."
Hair continued driving towards police headquarters. Minutes later the body camera microphone picked up moans coming from the backseat. 
Woman: "Are you single?"
Officer Hair: "Yeah. But you're not."

The conversation then turned illicit.
Woman: "I'm down to f--- right now."
Hair: "Don't say that right now...Don't say that right now because everything is being recorded right now."
For the next several minutes, as Hair sped towards Las Colinas, little could be heard between the two. As he approached Las Colinas, Hair asked what the woman was doing in the backseat. 
His police cruiser then slowed and Hair turned off his body camera.
According to the GPS tracking system inside Hair's police cruiser, Hair's car quickly slowed to seven miles per hour before turning down a dark residential street just blocks away from Las Colinas. 
At 1:34 a.m., Hair's police cruiser stopped. 

More than twenty minutes after the police cruiser stopped, Hair called a fellow officer asking if he had a master key for the patrol cars. 
In a subsequent interview, the unnamed officer described the conversation to internal affairs investigators.
"I heard and noticed Officer Hair had a panicky voice," said the officer. "I asked him if he was okay. He said, yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me...I asked why he was asking and what did he need. Officer Hair then asked me If I could go meet him. I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood... I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed."
After some back and forth, Hair finally said that he was locked in the backseat of his police cruiser with a woman that he was transporting to Las Colinas.
At 2:40 a.m., after more than an hour in the backseat with the woman, a supervisor arrived and opened the door."

Okay, Dumbest Holtzclaw Ever.

  • How many Ring cameras were you on there dummy?
  • You didn't roll the window down so you could let yourself back out?
  • You were in the back seat anyway, you didn't get out of the car where there aren't cameras?
  • You didn't call one of your off-duty cop buddies to help you?  Because you saw how he opened the door, right?  The trick was to leave the passenger door unlocked in the first place.  Then your off-duty cop buddy -- or if you had even one firefighter friend, which you don't -- can just reach in the side and unlock the back door for you and nobody's the wiser, Dumb Holtzclaw.
But the bigger problem is that the first thing the supervisor does is turn off his body cam before he starts talking to Hair.  And to my knowledge, he's still working there.


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