Family Wants Fired Officer Charged In Fatal Crash
Memphis) A Memphis
Idiot cop involved in a car crash that killed two people last August has been
fired.
On Monday,
February 18, 2013, Officer Alex Beard’s administrative hearing was held
concerning this crash.The accident happened at a three-way intersection where Crump Blvd. meets Georgia Avenue and Walnut Street.
Officer Beard was departmentally charged with Compliance with Regulations to wit: Response to Call, Personal Conduct, and Damage to Motor Vehicle.
All charges were sustained and Beard was subsequently terminated.
Beard was said to
be speeding without his blue lights and siren on when he rammed a car with four
people inside last August.
Shaquitta Epps
said, “He was fired but why wasn’t he also charged right along with his
firing.”Epps says firing the 23-year-old officer isn’t enough, “We still cry every day. We think about them every day. It’s not a day that goes by that we don’t think about them.”
Mackala’s father, Michael Ross, was injured so badly he’s learning how to walk again.
A family friend was also hurt. Meanwhile, Officer Beard cashed a city paycheck until yesterday.
“They’re still
treating him different from anybody else like we’ve said in the past,” said
Epps.
The Epps family
hopes those law enforcement connections are severed once and for all. They also
hope District Attorney Amy Weirich will recognize the enormity of the officer’s
actions that day.
We asked Epps what
she hoped would happen, “She does the right thing and brings charges against
him because he needs to be charged over what he has done. He didn’t only take
away one family member. He took two and injured another one severely.”
She added, “We
can’t let another Memphis Idiot cop get away with killing family members.”
