Chapter II of "Hot Pants & Cold Feet" Starring Mayor Mikey

 My, What a Large Sign You Have...

The long awaited chapter two in our ongoing saga of dropped pants in Muscle Shoals...

For those with good memories, you can skip ahead, but just a little reminder of the MSPD brue-ha-ha.......

Ms. Day Jailer that was punished for complaining deserves a name. "Sandy" as she will be known going forward.Sandy filed a complaint upon advice of her supervisor after an officer (we call him "Dee") had a visitor inside the dispatch area. Dee entertained conversation with the visitor concerning the visitor's swollen private parts. Although "Dee" encouraged the conversation that prompted the visitor's dropping his pants to expose himself to two female employees, he was not reprimanded by MSPD finest. Dee had a violation in the past as did another officer (something concerning a deer you may remember) but Dee was only moved to another city position while things cooled down. With that kind of history, Dee felt pretty confident nothing would happen after Sandy filed a complaint. Holding true to their selective standards, Dee is still a favored officer who dons his uniform and badge to "serve and protect" the good people of Muscle Shoals while Sandy was moved to night shift as punishment, thus leading to her resignation.

CHAPTER TWO:

Muscle Shoals Police Day-Jailer who was punished for telling the truth and following her supervisor's instructions has more to tell about what happens behind the plate glass windows. Not to let anyone bully her and punish her for speaking up, Sandy followed the city's protocol and went one step further to make an appointment with Mayor Mikey Lockhart. 

Taking her case to Mikey was a comfort to her - for a short time, as Mikey listened to her account of how a man would drop his pants in front of her and a female dispatcher with no apology from him or Dee, who, as a long time employee of the city and police department, should know the proper steps and policies as his uncle had worked for the city in a similar position and also in city hall. 

However, Sandy believed "right" would prevail and shared all the details and history of her employment to the new mayor while he nodded and agreed that such things were not going to happen now that he Mayor Bradford was gone. Mikey questioned in length and assured Sandy that this kind of embarrassment was against regulations and he would be looking into this and get back to her. After a long conversation and reassurance she had done the right thing by coming to him, Sandy left city hall and Mikey feeling like she could return to a safe environment - at Muscle Shoals Police Department.

Sandy's life was not to return to normal. She soon finds that Mayor Mikey Lockhart only told her what she wanted to hear and his words had no meaning. As reality sets in, Sandy knows she only has one option  - a resignation and an EEOC complaint. Her right to a safe, work environment was not secured by the new mayor and she was forced to seek help from an outside agency. 

Once the EEOC complaint was filed, Sandy was notified of the steps taken to determine just cause for her complaint. Who would believe Sandy against the fine upstanding police, ranking officer and his night-jailer girlfriend, and Dee? EEOC had their work cut out with interviewing those involved since they had a scripted account to follow that didn't quite match Sandy's.

Oh - if there had just been a fly on the wall in any of those conversations at the PD or City Hall. 

Maybe those stories the city employees told EEOC may be refuted. Or, were their stories refuted? 

It appears stories may have been contradicted - or outright lies were told to EEOC?

Is there evidence of lies told to EEOC by the MS groupies?

Did EEOC clear Sandy for the next steps to be vindicated? 

We hear someone will be haunted by the sound of their own voice in time to come...

The wheels of justice move ever so slowly - the walls have ears and ways of telling what they hear. 

More to come...