CLEVELAND, OH – Mayors and the secretaries they supervise aren’t supposed to fuck on or off the job. Police chiefs aren’t supposed to fuck the dispatchers they supervise and get them pregnant whle they’ve got boyfriends who think the child belongs to him. Even if a mayor isn’t fucking his secretary, he’s not supposed to let a sergeant he appointed to commander supervise an employee he’s been fucking.
The idea that employees are creating on the job families by fucking the employees they’re supervising, and then controlling who gets overtime or promotions to cover the additional costs of the dependents the on the job fucking created, reminds voters why nepotism laws were enacted in the first place. What the laws didn’t account for was all the fucking between unmarried people in family-like relationships similar to that of East Cleveland’s newest patrol commander, Larry McDonald, and his baby’s momma, patrol officer Domonique King.
Mayor Brandon King (wonder if he’s related to Domonique) is the city’s top law enforcement officer and he’s under a state criminal investigation based on a subpoena the library’s director and board received from the Ohio Ethics Comission with a demand for records last year. Aside from the criminal investigation, King didn’t live in the city when he campaigned for council and won or mayor.
Former Cuyahoga County Board of Elections director Pat McDonald was delivered a Facebook message from a King “brother” who lives in Cleveland Heights and voted for his brother from the East Cleveland address. Cecil King admitted his non-East Cleveland resident “mayor” brother’s been engaged in voter fraud with other members of the family.
But McDonald and the elections board refused to enforce election laws as written. So King’s been allowed to usurp an elected office, misappropriate public funds and make ignorant police appointment decisions like the “baby momma supervisor” one that have already cost East Cleveland taxpayers millions.
As East Cleveland’s former mayor, this writer inherited Larry McDonald in 2006 and laid him off in 2008 with no intent to rehire him. McDonald was originally hired under the late Patricia Lane during Saratha Goggins’ term as mayor. Goggins professional background consisted of 19 years of employment as a clerk in University Hospital’s x-ray department. Her job was to direct patients to follow the colored lines to the appropriate x-ray room. The city’s first woman chief and mayor saw McDonald as a qualified applicant.
The lay-off of McDonald was necessary. He had no concept of the words “probable cause” and no comprehension for the legal restraint public employees assigned to “obey and enforce” laws must have when interacting with the nation’s constitutionally-protected citizens. McDonald seemed to think wearing a uniform and a gun gave him the “power” to interact with them anyway he wanted; a dangerous reality in a state whose lawmakers gave citizens the same “fear of life” defense cops have even when interacting lawbreaking cops threatening their lives.
Administratively McDonald lacked the ability to write cogent and testifiable sentences in police reports, which for East Cleveland is a problem with the majority of the city’s police officers. They refused to let citizens write their own language in reports. McDonald had zero impulse control and whatever thoughts sprung in his mind he acted on as a cop.
A 10-year-old Chambers Elementary School student complained to me in front of McDonald that he’d pushed him into a wall and treated the child like a criminal in front of other students. McDonald’s reason for violating the U.S. citizen’s constitutional rights was that he wanted to scare him straight. The child said he didn’t need scaring straight. He didn’t want McDonald putting his hands on him and violating his constitutional rights. I gave the student my card in front of Larry with instructions for him to call me, personally, on my cell phone if he ever touched him again.
No information like this is found in McDonald’s “performance reviews” because every cop supervising him was operating in violation of state laws that ordered them to stop performing a law enforcement officer’s duties. Brainless past and current members of council didn’t ensure recalled ex-mayor Gary Norton, Jr. didn’t maintain the twice-yearly performance reviews I’d ordered on all employees. Juanita Gowdy and Korean Stevens are not among the past members of non-performing council members. These two hellraisers just got elected and their voices they’ve added to the body sound promising.
King should have fired chief of police Michael Cardilli and Gardner for creating a fake police training class and sending forged documents to the attorney general to cover for the police impersonators who’d been told they were not law enforcement officers. This Black thief should have also referred them for “federal” prosecution for the rights of the city’s predominantly 96 percent Black citizenry he’d let majority White thieves stealing wages and benefits from them violate.
Knowing I couldn’t let him interact with citizens as a police officer, I assigned McDonald to visit properties that required occupancy permits to issue warnings with the reminder that the offense was citable for those that had expired. During tax time I assigned him and another police officer whose use was limited to drive a sound truck through the city to remind taxpayers of tax deadlines.
I also assigned him to distribute citywide notices to residents and businesses. McDonald’s salary had been paid through HUD. When the program money ended I saw it as an opportunity to let him go.
The idea McDonald’s worked for Cleveland, University Circle and is now an East Cleveland “commander” reflects the state’s low training standards for municipal police officers and explains why so many arrests are unlawful; and that the problem will only grow worse. McDonald’s currently among 24 East Cleveland cops Judge John Russo’s ordered Prosecuting Attorney Michael O’Malley to charge for performing law enforcement officer duties and wearing weapons with expired Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy credentials.
McDonald and a cop operating under a changed name, Kenneth Disalvo aka Kenneth Lundy, are the reasons Russo’s ordered charges against the 24. The two searched Facebook pages without warrants and decided something they’d read about a teenaged male U.S. citizen with constitutionally-protected rights a suspect they wanted to question. So these two violent and slow-minded idiots “conspired” to set up a street kidnapping where they drug him out of a car at gunpoint, planted a weapon in his vehicle, kidnapped his 17-year-old female U.S. citizen passenger by driving his vehicle with her in it; and then brought him to the police station for an interrogation. This is who King just promoted to supervise every patrol officer in the city.
After a city hall encounter with Cleveland chief of police Calvin Williams, this writer met with Mayor Frank Jackson and showed him a state general law I learned the Ohio Highway Patrol was not training “municipal police officers” to know. Section 737.11 of the Ohio Revised Code is the first law every city cop should know and Jackson admitted Williams didn’t.
As East Cleveland’s former mayor and a 40-year newspaper and journalist who covered the police beat for the Cleveland Press daily newspaper in 1981 from a first floor office inside the Justice Center, McDonald and Williams are not the only Ohio police officers who haven’t read R.C. 737.11 to know the words “obey and enforce all ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and all criminal laws of the state and the United States,” are the legally embedded within a law enforcement officer’s duties.
There are no criminal laws law enforcement officers can disobey. None. Ohio lawmakers established a “zero tolerance” law mayors, safety directors, prosecutors and judges are not enforcing. Violating civil rights disobeys laws and failing to prosecute uniformed lawbreakers disobeys the criminal laws they have a duty to enforce.
A law enforcement officer who witnesses another law enforcement committing a crime is committing a “federal” crime and violating 18 U.S.C. 4, “misprision of felony.” Since R.C 737.11 specifically embeds federal criminal law obedience and enforcement into a municipal police officers duties, obeying all local, state and federal criminal laws is a mandate whether law enforcement officers are training to know them or not. This state’s elected officials seem to have a problem identifying citizens with the appropriate mental capacity to perform public jobs that simply require them to read and obey laws they’re not trained to know.
Ohioans in urban cities are accustomed to “big salaried” cops and six-figure wages. What they don’t see are the $8 an hour part-time police chiefs managing part-time cops in small townships and villages who are equally as poorly-paid. Imagine Ohio’s attorney generals appointing $8 an hour police chiefs who’ve assigned their $8 an hour sergeant to establish training standards for all of the state’s municipal police; and the training is conducted by the Superintendent of the Ohio Highway Patrol whose curriculum doesn’t make reference to the one Ohio law every municipal cop like McDonald should know.
The body setting training standards for cops in this state is the Ohio Peace Officer Training Council. Appointed by the state’s Attorney General, the body typically consists of low level cops and citizens who haven’t read or mastered any portion of the Ohio Revised Code’s duties and instructions to police officers. Without knowing or being trained on every section of the Revised Code that establishes separate duties for every category of law enforcement officer, the attorney generals have let them devise a dumb overall curriculum that focuses on driving, shooting, police tactics and jumping jacks.
Out of 624 hours of training about 16 are in “U.S. Supreme court cases” they have no duty to know. They get no training on the local, state and federal criminal laws they’re required to obey and enforce in cities. German cops get no fewer than 2000 hours of training before they’re allowed on the streets. They need an additional 1000 hours of training to wear a weapon. U.S. cops get fewer hours of training than the 1500 hours needed to cut and style hair.
It is under this ridiculously low “training” paradigm that intellectually-impaired individuals are working as law enforcement officers all across the state and nation. There should be some record of this type of information in McDonald’s personnel files as well as Gardner’s and Cardilli’s, but labor agreements with the police unions allow derogatory information to be removed from a cop’s file.
The benefit to this state’s citizens is that public records retention laws trump all collective bargaining agreements; and the records can be removed but not destroyed. Personnel records must be permanently-retained and I know the city’s personnel files included derogatory information on McDonald and Gardner before I left on December 31, 2009.
I suspended Gardner twice for insubordination and refused to promote him to sergeant. The rejection of him for supervisor was because he’d written bad checks to employees who worked for his private security company. Gardner’s two convictions come from tax fraud indictments in Cuyahoga and Medina counties. This is who King just appointed to the position of chief of police.
