UGA Police Officer Fired For Assisting Underage Drunk Girl, Students Start Petition To Get Him Reinstated
This is one of those feel-good stories about students taking care of one of their own. Campus cops are not all bad. I’ll never forget the night that I stumbled up to my dorm hammered drunk only to find that I had lost my access card. Who came to my rescue? None other than campus PD to let me in and tell me to have a good night. He was a saint. I’m sure that many of you have had similar experiences.
University of Georgia police officer Jay Park responded to a call for medical assistance in the dorms. What he found was an underage girl who was drunk. He did not charge her with underage drinking, however. See, under Georgia law, there is an amnesty (HB 965) which gives immunity from arrest to those seeking medical help for alcohol and drug emergencies. Officer Park helped the young lady into an ambulance. He responded to another instance that very same night and told the students that they were under amnesty. His sergeant showed up and told them he had to charge them before sending the officer home after he said no.
The reasoning that the Captain gave Park was that for someone to be covered by the amnesty, they had to be the one to make the call for help, not a friend. A Georgia Senator has said that amnesty is covered for whoever makes the call. Park has since been fired.
Students at UGA created a petition for Park to be reinstated. Park should not have this negativity associated with his name since all he was doing was following the law. As of right now, 1,198 people have signed the petition in support of Jay Park. Help him get his job back so he can go back to being one of the few good campus cops in this country..
[via Change.org]
It must have been hard for him to see if she was drunk or not.
11 years ago at 12:27 pmCome on, man
11 years ago at 12:37 pmI typed it realizing the that it would draw alot of negative laps, was just testing the racial waters per say.
Shit its hard to type and run.
11 years ago at 1:14 pmyou shouldn’t have typed it.
11 years ago at 1:39 pm“per se”
11 years ago at 6:02 pmSuch a shame comments like these are getting down-voted.. Too many liberals on this damn site.
11 years ago at 12:52 pmSince96? You’re not even old enough to have participated in any major election. Shut the fuck up.
11 years ago at 1:02 pmI laughed.
11 years ago at 1:52 pmDon’t argue with an Asian on textbook shit.
11 years ago at 12:27 pmRacist
11 years ago at 5:16 pmYou are one of the most racist accounts on here, you have no room to talk.
11 years ago at 11:09 pmAgreed, but for that reason weird that Asians never make good lawyers.
11 years ago at 1:00 amGenius campus police officer, you have to be the one to make the call to get amnesty. Good policy since the passed out kid with alcohol poisoning needs to make the call. Kudos to this guy for doing what was right
11 years ago at 12:34 pmsometimes he’s right sometimes he’s Wong
11 years ago at 2:06 pmBut how often he’s Wong, Wi may never know.
11 years ago at 5:17 pmWell one thing is certain- the sergeant is a real Wang.
11 years ago at 2:03 amThis was a great comment. Fuck the haters.
11 years ago at 11:10 pmIf he was wight he wouldn’t have been wong
11 years ago at 11:18 pmFucking idiot sergeant. Shit like this is why so many people die from alcohol poisoning because they are afraid to call for help. Signed that petition in a heart beat, well done officer.
11 years ago at 12:36 pmNot like a drunk person could call or even think to call.
11 years ago at 12:15 pmI signed. Good cops need to be recognized, not fired.
11 years ago at 12:48 pmThank God there are good cops like this in the world and then someone has to go and ruin it for everybody.
11 years ago at 12:50 pmOf course, the Captain had to go and reaffirm all of my original thoughts on campus security. Wish there were more like this Asian fella.
11 years ago at 1:06 pmThis literally proves that the majority of campus police are to screw us over
11 years ago at 1:36 pmSigned. Got helped into my dorm by LAPD while blacked when the power went out. Fuck cop haters, most have good intentions.
11 years ago at 1:40 pmArrested for what? Unless he saw her chugging down, then it’s a waste of time.
The cop actually has a pretty good shot at a lawsuit.
11 years ago at 1:52 pm