Officer resigns after slashing tires

By at 1 July, 2009, 8:53 pm

A police officer for Tarpon Springs has resigned after admitting to slashing a homeless man’s bicycle tires. The police officer said today it was retaliation. Surveillance video from back in February shows officer Jeffrey Robinson taking the bike out of a storage unit. His superiors said today that he took a knife, cut the tires on the bicycle, and put it back into storage. The bike belonged to a homeless man named John Bilawsky, who Robinson arrested eight days earlier. “According to officer Robinson,

while he was transporting Mr. Bilawsky, Mr Bilawsky made several racial slurs against the officer and the officer stated he was damaging the bicycle in retaliation for those racial slurs,” said Lt. Barb Templeton, with the Tarpon Springs Police Department. The Tarpon Springs Police say they were investigating Robinson, but he resigned before the investigation was complete. This was the first time the officer ever faced disciplinary action.  

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