An Oklahoma metropolis supervisor was caught on bodycam footage speaking right down to an officer after which threatening to fireside him after the cop pulled him over for rushing.
The July 14 footage caught the moments a police officer stopped Daniel Bruton, the town supervisor of Konawa, Oklahoma.
Bruton, visibly irritated by the site visitors cease, informs the cop that he’s working to deal with a water emergency affecting the city.
“You have been simply rushing, OK?” the officer tells Bruton.
“Write me a ticket if you wish to, write me a ticket,” Bruton responds, earlier than shouting profanities on the cop. “I would like you to get your a** again to city!”
“OK, take heed to me, I’m simply attempting to do my job, okay,” the cop says, attempting to motive with Bruton.
“I’m telling you proper now, you higher get in that truck otherwise you received’t have a job!” Bruton yells.
“That is my job. That is what I used to be employed to do,” the cop says.
“Nicely, that is my job, and I’m your boss—and I’m in a rush,” Bruton responds.
“It doesn’t matter. It’s a must to obey the regulation like all people else,” the cop states.
“You’re about to not have a job, you perceive that?” Bruton threatens.
After extra heated back-and-forth, the cop lastly dismisses Bruton with not ticket, no quotation.
“I’m attempting to be respectful with you right here,” the officer says.
“Nicely, I’m not being respectful!” Bruton shouts.
Later that day, the town supervisor visits the station to additional chastise the officer concerning the site visitors cease.
“So let me clarify one thing to you, after I bought out of the truck and I instructed you there was a water emergency, that’s the place you need to have ended it,” Bruton is heard saying.
“OK, take heed to me—,” the cop says.
“I’m not going to take heed to you! I’m your boss. You’ll do what I say!” Bruton interjects.
“It doesn’t matter. You possibly can’t break the regulation like that,” the officer responds.
“Individuals break the regulation, and in case you have an issue with it, then write me a f***ing ticket,” Bruton solutions again.
Annoyed by the officer’s objections, Bruton calls Konawa Police Chief Bryan Russell and says, “I’m firing Jonathan proper now,” earlier than telling him his aspect of the story.
“Who says I can’t fireplace him,” Bruton retorts after seemingly receiving some pushback from the police chief.
Days after the video from the small city — about 1200 individuals — some 70 miles south of Oklahoma Metropolis was leaked and went viral on-line, Bruton apologized for his habits, chalking it as much as frustration with the water emergency. Town supervisor has not been publicly reprimanded for his habits.
“[The officer] simply caught the brunt of that from a state of affairs that day. I didn’t imply something in direction of him. He does a superb job, and I apologized to him, and I’m making a public apology to him now,” Bruton instructed KFOR. “I’m embarrassed by it. I’m ashamed of it.”
Bruton hopes that “we will all transfer previous it and I can develop from it as properly.”
A former metropolis of Konawa worker stated that Bruton’s habits, as seen on the bodycam footage, is nothing new. She defined how she had related encounters with the town supervisor earlier than she was fired from her job.
“I defined to the Metropolis Supervisor that I wanted to vary what was already posted, and it was time to go dwelling,” stated Dedee Clark. “He bought very irritated, very agitated, instructed me it was effective. He instructed me to shut down my laptop and go dwelling. He yelled out so loud that the hallway heard him, and a number of individuals got here to me afterwards and stated, ‘Are you okay?’”
In keeping with KOCO, the video has triggered requires adjustments within the metropolis’s administration.
The officer within the bodycam footage remains to be employed by the Konawa Police Division.
