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Dallas oversight board sustains finding and urges training after officer—s profane traffic-stop remark
Summary
The board accepted OCPO investigator Hough—s recommendation to change a division finding to sustained for Senior Corporal Matthew Wolford, citing use of indecent/profane language during a traffic stop; the board voted unanimously to refer the recommendation, including reinstated training, to the police chief.
The Community Police Oversight Board voted unanimously to accept the Office of Community Police Oversight investigator's findings in a traffic-stop complaint and to refer recommended discipline and training to the Dallas Police Department.
Investigator Hough summarized the Devon Leach complaint, which alleges a Dallas officer used a profane threatening phrase during a traffic stop. Hough recounted the body-worn-camera exchange and told the board the officer can be heard saying, "if you touch it I'm gonna smoke your ***," language the office concluded violated…
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