On-Duty Louisville Cop Repeatedly Sexually Assaults Gas-Station Employee, Gets Probation

Emery Taylor is a manager at a gas station in Louisville, Kentucky.  See the report here.

The place she works at offers free coffee to law enforcement, which is not unusual.  When I was a paramedic we all went to the place that gave us free coffee, which was ingenious because we also fueled up those diesel trucks.

Officer Robert Neff is seen on security footage in the store Taylor runs, tying Taylor's hands behind her back.  He goes on to sexually manhandle her, as though nobody could see them.  Lord knows what he does on patrol, when he's not standing under security cameras.

Taylor had already alerted coworkers that she was uncomfortable with Neff, who came in often and wanted side-hugs.  He had repeatedly tried to give her a phone number.  That's why a coworker immediately rushed to her side and attempted, unsuccessfully, to dissuade Neff from kissing and groping Taylor on the two occasions caught on security tape.

Taylor had no interest whatsoever in Neff.  She couldn't understand why he continued to pursue her.

As an old woman I completely understand.  It's very simple:  She happens to have whatever physical attributes turn him on.  Simple as that.  Nothing to overthink.   Maybe it's her lovely figure, or her red hair, or both.  There's  a reason people wear hijab.  It's the fact that she's a good enough person not to have stabbed him by now.  Not at all blaming her, she's awesome and he's IMHO criminally insane, and the world apparently isn't very bothered.

It's painful to watch the report for many reasons, not the least of which is Taylor struggling to make sense of why she in particular was targeted.  "Why me?" she asks in tears.   She's looking to find the fault in herself that made her the target, how she's to blame.

When that isn't it at all.  It's that he has lost his damned mind.  And she had the particular package that he likes.  That's all.  If the other girl's thing was the one that makes his dick hard, she would've been the one he grabbed, or the black one.  That's all.  That's literally all.   

There's nothing for Emery Taylor to cry about on that level, of why he picked her to bully like this.  She wasn't the weakest one.  She was the one he personally found the hottest.  And he's out of his damned mind.  He thinks he can do whatever he wants with his dick because he can take people into custody and order them around like a game of Simon Says gone mad.

This on-duty officer followed the manager around the gas station for over two hours, think about that.  Followed her into the back room, and is seen on camera groping her.

He has got to be stopped, and I'm not sure his local law enforcement community has the appetite for it.  Because he got a very dainty little wrist slap, probation only, for stalking, harassment, multiple unlawful restraints and sexual assaults, in front of bystanders in a gas station, on videotape.  He did all of this while in uniform and on duty.  Not one day of jail time.  

His fellow officers apparently aren't that bothered, in other words, because Neff was allowed to resign.  So he'll get another police job.   I'll be surprised if Kentucky revokes his police powers just because they can see the videotapes for themselves and he pled guilty.

They're tossing the survivor some chump change and telling her to go away because their policeman did those things while on the clock.   And those are her options.  I think they gave her $55,000.

Emery Taylor wasn't looking for money, jokers. Plea bargaining is brutal on the survivors, I don't know if people understand

At the end of the day Future Officer Neff is not safe for a badge or a gun.  He's loose in the goose.  Louisville and Robert Neff both screwed Emery Taylor over.  Justice failed here.