Georgia mayor fires entire police force for upsetting his wife

The mayor of a small Georgia town has fired his entire police force for upsetting his wife.  Cohutta Mayor Ron Shinnick shut down the Cohutta Police Department and fired all 10 of its employees earlier this week after officers allegedly made inappropriate comments about his spouse on Facebook, WDEF reported. The PD has been dissolved, and all personnel have been terminated, read a brutal sign on the departments door first thing Wednesday. Theyll get a paycheck. Were not that way, and I appreciate their service, okay? It is time for a change, Shinnick said bluntly when asked about the controversy. The entire Cohutta Police Department in Georgia.According to the New York Post, tensions boiled over late last month after several officers filed formal complaints alleging that the towns former clerk, Pam Shinnick who is also the mayors wife continued working for the town despite being fired. She was terminated last year for apparently creating a hostile work environment in the town of less than 1,000 people but allegedly still had access to personal and classified information. Cohutta Mayor Ron Shinnick and his wifeIn the wake of the formal complaints, the mayor held a joint press conference with Police Chief Greg Fowler and town attorney Brian Rayburn to say theyd managed to resolve the dispute through open dialogue and good-faith mediation. But roughly a week later, the cops were all fired anyway. This all comes to personal vendetta from the mayor and I wholeheartedly believe that, said one of the axed officers, Sgt. Jeremy May, adding that theyd been assured their jobs werent in jeopardy for lodging complaints about the mayors wife. Official response from the town attorney: Nobodys jobs are in jeopardy, May said. Here we are, less than a week later, nobody has a job. We took a stand for transparency, and in result, every one of them has lost their jobs, he added. The mayor, for his part, blamed the conflict on inappropriate comments posted on Facebook by the officers. For now, the fired officers have been ordered to return all department equipment. The Whitfield County Sheriffs Office is set to take over policing for the small town.The post Georgia mayor fires entire police force for upsetting his wife appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.