Pima Community College target of DoJ lawsuit for vet discrimination
Chief Tango sends us a link to the Department of Justice which reports their lawsuit against Pima Community College in Arizona for discrimination against a National Guardsman who is a member of the PCC police force. Timothy Stoner is a sergeant first class in the Arizona National Guard as well as a police officer since 2001. Stoner served 21 years in the Guard which included three years on active duty and deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the Lead Police Officer until the department abolished the position and created the new position Police Corporal;
According to the department’s complaint, PCC created the supervisory position of police corporal in 2010. Prior to that position being created, Stoner effectively performed his assigned duties as a lead police officer, an assignment that was replaced by the creation of the police corporal position. In 2010 and 2013, Stoner applied for promotion to police corporal, but both times he was not selected. The lawsuit alleges that, in each of the two years, Stoner’s military service was a motivating factor in PCC’s decision to deny him promotion to police corporal. According to the lawsuit, for both promotions, one of the two PCC officials who made the decision not to select Stoner exhibited anti-military bias against Stoner that was directly related to his military obligations. According to the suit, PCC conducted an investigation of Stoner’s internal complaint that his denial of promotion in 2013 was the result of anti-military bias by PCC selecting officials, and the college found that his complaint was substantiated. As a result, the PCC investigator recommended that remedial action be taken, including placing Stoner in an acting corporal position.
According to the Daily Caller, Police Chief Bay made numerous anti-military remarks;
Chief [Stella] Bay stepped up her anti-military rhetoric, saying that “military service members are so used to taking orders that they cannot think for themselves and do not do well in stressful situations,” in the words of the DOJ suit.
Chief Stella Bay has resigned.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that Chief Stella Bay resigned this week after allegations surfaced that she had poisoned officer morale to the point of imperiling campus safety.
Matthew Cline, executive director of an officers’ union, said in a letter this month that the majority of campus officers had no faith in Bay and that she had created a hostile work environment.
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I hope that she is personally sued. I also hope that she is permanently black-balled from serving in any sort of Law Enforcement or Supervisory position ever again. She shouldn’t even be allowed to be a crew leader on mid-shift at McDonald’s.
She resigned last year. Here she is in 2011 on 6o minutes after a campus shooting.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/extra-the-college-police-chief/
Wow, a four star community college police chief. What is it with these guys and the stars? Is it like Lays potato chips, one ain’t enough?
And as I suspected she looks like a swamp donkey.
I knew I remembered her name. She was interviewed about how she handled Jared Loughner, the guy that shot former U.S. Representative Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords.
Yes, she was in charge of PCC here where Jared Loughner, the shooter that shot Gifford and killed and wounded others, attended. Many students refused to stay in classes with him because his behavior was bizarre and alarming. I have read that PCC PD did little to nothing in following up on the complaints. Good to know she’s gone.
About f**king time DoJ and DoL started going after some of these azzholes. Normally they don’t do squat.
Ran across something like this personally – albeit of a lesser variety – when I was mobilized post-9/11. When I told my supervisor at the time I’d gotten orders to return to AD, she told me “I don’t know why you thought you had to do this” (or words to that effect). So, yeah – that attitude is fairly pervasive some places.
Thankfully that . . . fine individual was no longer my supervisor when I returned from mobilization.
Yep me too, my Patrol Captain told me “you should probably decide on which career you are going to pursue.” I never went back to the PD after that day.
As for Chief Bay…GFY. I would challenge you to think quicker than anyone who has served in the military. There’s a reason we are sought after by law enforcement agencies, and it’s not because we’re dipshits….that would be you.
Oh, and as to “Chief” Bay’s resignation – about f**king time on that, too. Good riddance.
Can’t say I’m surprised by her attitude, though. PCC is in the People’s Republic of Pima County – AKA Tucson and surrounding area. Folks there are . . . well, let’s just say many are very NIMBYish and largely disconnected from the realities of life.
I like the way she went from LT over 31 with the Tuscon PD to four-star general with the Community College.
Yeah, saw that in the video. What is it with all the F’ing stars on their collars?
Thats called a Turd Bolling special.
“Chief [Stella] Bay stepped up her anti-military rhetoric, saying that “military service members are so used to taking orders that they cannot think for themselves and do not do well in stressful situations,”
Really Stella! Well it’s obvious you’re not a veteran. That is the first thing taught in the military after boot camp and even towards the end of boot camp and in AIT. To think!!! Think for yourself and your unit in STRESSFUL situations. That’s all the military is about dumb ass. The average LEO who is not a vet has to learn this on the street. A LEO who is a vet already has this engrained in them. I could go on but I’d just send my BP up. Glad she’s gone, wish she had been fired instead of resigning.
That’s all appointed civilian “warriors” know (or feel the need to) about military people so they can look down upon them.
“Say again last?”
“Roger, I spell Charlie Uniform November Tango, over.”
“See You Next Tuesday”.
/also works.
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Oh yeah. Eat shit Stella and enjoy the rest of your worthless existence.
Was she anything other than an EEO quota hire to begin with?
Proud Infidel: possibly. She did have a good career with the Tucson PD. Being chief at PCC was probably her idea of a nice, slow, quiet post-retirement gig. I’d guess something like that was exactly what she was looking for.
With her attitude, I have to say I’m glad to see it blow up in her face – and that she’s now history. Just sorry to see her inane tenure apparently managed to hurt some good people.
She resigned about June 21, 2013. Did PCC learn their lesson? Who replaced her?
A room temperature turd would have the same qualifications as her, so anyone one else would be an improvement