35 year veteran Sergeant Bobby Guidry.
Chief Warren Riley with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Posted on 07/24/2008 6:17:12 PM PDT by Drew68
NEW ORLEANS, LA – A 35-year veteran police officer with the New Orleans Police Department was suspended, with only 15 minutes left on his last shift, for wearing the wrong uniform shirt.
Sergeant Bobby Guidry was moving his personal belongings from his office to his car when he was informed by a supervisor that the older, powder-blue uniform shirt he was wearing was out of regulation.
The department had recently changed from the powder-blue shirts to an unpopular all-black uniform following Hurricane Katrina. Superintendent Warren Riley, who has defended Sergeant Guidry’s suspension, says there are plans to switch back to the powder-blue shirts by the first of the year in order to boost employee morale.
Sergeant Guidry told New Orleans’ Times-Picayune newspaper that he wore the shirt on his last day out of respect to the 18 New Orleans police officers who had been killed in the line of duty during his long career, all of whom wore the same uniform.
“Eighteen people died in the line of duty in that powder-blue shirt while I was with the department,” Guidry said. “I went to each of those funerals. I wore that shirt on a Saturday, on my last day, out of respect for them.”
Because the suspension was active at the end of his shift, he will no longer be eligible to receive his retired police commission and will not be accepted into the agency’s reserve unit as he had intended to do. Police department spokesman Bob Young has said that Guidry’s personnel record will indicate that he retired “under investigation.”
When asked about writing a letter of apology to the chief, Sergeant Guidry responded “What do I apologize for?” Guidry said. “I wore the wrong shirt. . . . I’ll take a letter of reprimand, but a suspension? That’s rough.”
He and his lawyers plan to appeal the suspension.
35 year veteran Sergeant Bobby Guidry.
Chief Warren Riley with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Oh how I wish I could handle his lawsuit!
Life is like a box of chocolates...
this was posted weeks ago.
The first thing that came into my head was, “I’ll bet Sgt. Bobby Guidry is white.”
Sure enough.
I googled his name, and found a forum that appears to be run by LEOs. It’s worth seeing what they have to say about this:
http://www.pano1544.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1343
Thought so..
The punishment doesn’t fit the crime though.
Looks like somebody flunked Gun Safety.
Thats what happens when the inmates run the nuthouse.
Sue,Bobby,sue! Sue ‘em all....and sue ‘em big!
I figured it had to be here somewhere but I searched for the words "vet", "veteran", "suspended" in the title and "NOPD" as a keyword.
Articles like this don't usually get past FR.
Complete asses with no knowledge or competence in proper firearm handling.
In contrast, we have Sergeant Guidry: A man of honor (and one who refused to go out wearing the hated Nazi SS Black)
Looks like Nagin’s finger is on the trigger!
Had the weapon been loaded.......
and here
Oh well. I looked. Ain't the first time...
Sometimes it's the 3rd or 4th related thread before I've heard about it.
Being a sponge isn’t always fun & games either.
Don’t worry about it. I had not seen this before. If it’s been a few weeks maybe you can add an update. ;’)
That’s perhaps the most ridiculous post I’ve seen in months. Kudos.
Already posted here (post 4)
Huh???
When they say he can not retain his retired police commission are they just saying he can’t keep the document which commissions his as an officer of the law, or are they saying he will not get his retirement? My credentials were called a pocket commission as it had the phrasing on it explaining we were duly commissioned etc. Also had our picture and signature along with the Treasury seal.
That is a big difference. Either way is sounds like a real jerkoff made the decision.`
After 35 years of service I would have let him walk around in his bathing suit if he wanted too.
First I’ve seen it. I find it amazing that people spend so much time ribbing others for duplicate posts when the search feature tends to be kinda buggy.
Thanks for posting.
Seems an ideal way to file a lawsuit and earn a little extra retirement. If the citizens of NO had any class they’d fire their mayor and police chief. Like I said, if they had any class.
Yeah, it's one thing when people are posting the exact same article, same title from the same source, but is a duplicate post really the end of the world? There's obviously a few people here that missed it the first time around, as did I.
“I wont be wronged, I wont be insulted, I wont be laid a hand on, I dont do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” — JB Books
I get tired of little people who puff themselves up by screwing someone else. Like the dem congress is currently doing.
You don't understand, the posting police don't care if you have seen it they only care if they can try to force others to bend their rules. Actually, FReerepublic says that if you post an article 24 hours after it has been posted it is fine and dandy. Weeks ago would seem to cover that. The posting police only care about their rules which say that they are gods who rule over FR.
UPDATE:
Riley also said that retired Sargeant Bobby Guidry, who wore a blue shirt to work on his final day on the job to pay tribute to colleagues who had lost their lives in the line of duty during his 30 plus years on the force, will receive a written reprimand for violating the department’s uniform policy. This means Guidry will be eligible to join the police reserve unit, something he wanted to do.
http://www.wrno.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=&article=3995696
Read Freerepublics rules. Any post that is posted 24 hours after the original is legal and fine. The posting police think that nothing should ever be duplicated regardless of who hasn’t seen it. Pompous a**es, just like Obama in my opinion.
Obama is the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no Other Gods before him.
spot on calex. I never have understood this. why the hell do they care if it has been up before? so what huh? you would have to spend a heck of a lot of time on FR (or scroll back a few pages each trip here) so as to not miss a story. if you have seen one........just skip it! damn.
That suspension is one of the most STOOPID things I’ve ever heard! One of the others is that the new uniform is a BLACK shirt. Did the people coming up with that lang brain idea every have to wear a black shirt on the streets of New Orleans in the dead of SUMMER?
Difficult to catch when different outlets or posters use different headlines.
I hadn’t seen this before.
Search in heart and tell me that 35 years of faithful service goes down the drain.....over a shirt? I have to agree, your post has “dumb and dumber” written all over it. Next you are going to tell me that some DA in NO is going to fire all the white people-— sheesh
Riley also said that retired Sargeant Bobby Guidry, who wore a blue shirt to work on his final day on the job to pay tribute to colleagues who had lost their lives in the line of duty during his 30 plus years on the force, will receive a written reprimand for violating the department’s uniform policy. This means Guidry will be eligible to join the police reserve unit, something he wanted to do.
Excellent news.
Of course, this story should have never been newsworthy in the first place as it should never have happened. As someone else on the thread wrote, he should have simply been thanked for his service and wished a good retirement.
Someone wanted to give him a good hard dig before he left.
Oh yea, you are right, lets just piss away the other 12,774 days as a faithful police officer down the toilet....over a shirt. That is about as smart Barack Obama trying to give breathalyzers to little kids with asthma. If the roles were reversed, Jesse jackson, Al Sharpton, and the NAACP would be all over this playing the race card. Sounds like some one is bitter and thinks “pay-back” is in order. I have seen people do alot worst and recieved less punishment then this. Get real!
I wonder how many nit picking tickets this guy handed out in his career. One thing I don’t have much patience for is giving slack to people who make career out of nick-picking others. Nobody forces anyone to become a cop, you just choose to be one.
He broke a rule. Let him reap the consequences I say.
Sounds like an ugly situation in the NOPD. What I gather from those posts is that this guy is a racist tyrant and that white cops get the shaft for minor infractions, while black cops get kid glove treatment.
Didn’t even know there were “rules”. Fact is, the story needs repeating.
No, seriously. Remember that next time your foot slips and causes you to drive 46 in a 45 mile per hour zone, ‘cause that’s the rule this guy broke. With the measure you use, my friend.
Yep, there are posting rules. You can re-post an article after 24 hours, and if the article is from a different source(not the same article but the same subject)you can post it immediately. I like repeat post because other wise I would miss some articles. I despise posting police, the remind me of left wing, communist enforcers.
I didn’t say I agree with that standardd of enforcement. I said that if the guy was willing to be a cop and harass his fellow citizens with petty tickets then I don’t have a lot of of sympathy for his whining. (Now some of you out there are going to say that I don’t know that he did this. I would answer that anyone who spent an entire careerer as a cop did just that on more than one occasion.) So I say quit your whining cop and pay the penalty of your transgression.
From the on-line evidence, I’d venture to say that the real problem was not that he wore a powder blue shirt to his last day at work, but that he wore a white face.
The NOLA police chief is clearly a racist. It would be more fashionable to say that he is a “reverse racist,” but that kind of language gives too much ground to the race baiters.
Racism is racism, whichever direction it points.
Warren Riley is a racist piece of s**t.
I hate to insult s**t, though.
I gotta tell you, I’ve done it myself a number of times. I think there is something wrong with the search feature on FR when you can’t find postings with incredibly specific words in it.
The chief seems to be about 60 pounds over weight.
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