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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(10,197 posts)
Fri May 24, 2024, 03:31 AM May 2024

San Diego Police officer resigns after getting locked in the backseat with female detainee

A San Diego Police Department officer resigned from his post after he accidentally locked himself in the backseat with a woman for more than an hour while he was transporting her to Las Colinas Women's Detention Center.

In adherence to California Law, San Diego Police released its internal investigation into then-Officer Anthony Hair and the events that took place on Aug. 15, 2023. The investigation resulted in Hair's resignation the following month.



The ride to Las Colinas

On the night of Aug. 15, 2023, the two-year police veteran, Hair was one of several officers to help with the arrest of two people suspected of car theft. One of the people arrested was an unidentified woman who also had a bench warrant out for her arrest.

SDPD Officer Hair was asked to take the woman to police headquarters and then to the Las Colinas Detention Center in Santee.

The conversation then turned illicit.

Woman: "I'm down to f--- right now."

Hair: "Don't say that right now...Don't say that right now because everything is being recorded right now."

For the next several minutes, as Hair sped towards Las Colinas, little could be heard between the two. As he approached Las Colinas, Hair asked what the woman was doing in the backseat.

His police cruiser then slowed and Hair turned off his body camera.
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"I heard and noticed Officer Hair had a panicky voice," said the officer. "I asked him if he was okay. He said, yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me...I asked why he was asking and what did he need. Officer Hair then asked me If I could go meet him. I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood... I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed."

After some back and forth, Hair finally said that he was locked in the backseat of his police cruiser with a woman that he was transporting to Las Colinas.

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-police-officer-resigns-after-getting-locked-in-the-backseat-with-female-detainee/509-0f2188f1-7c3f-43eb-a73b-75775ad9fcf0
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San Diego Police officer resigns after getting locked in the backseat with female detainee (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd May 2024 OP
Ooooops? czarjak May 2024 #1
Okay... 2naSalit May 2024 #2
This reminds me of the lyrics to an early Madonna song. John1956PA May 2024 #3
When blood from the brain rushes south IronLionZion May 2024 #4
"Let's turn this off real quick" rescuing LEO at end of video, turning off his body cam. CoopersDad Jun 2024 #5

2naSalit

(92,677 posts)
2. Okay...
Fri May 24, 2024, 05:36 AM
May 2024

He must have been "down" with it too. Funny how that happens.



Los Colinas was about two miles down the riverbed from my mom's house back in the day, whenever someone escaped from there the helicopters would strafe every female on foot anywhere near the area. It got old.

John1956PA

(3,368 posts)
3. This reminds me of the lyrics to an early Madonna song.
Fri May 24, 2024, 05:52 AM
May 2024

The chorus from Madonna's song "Open Your Heart To Me" (1986):

Open your heart to me, baby
I hold the lock and you hold the key
Open your heart to me, darling
I'll give you love if you, you turn the key.


IronLionZion

(46,968 posts)
4. When blood from the brain rushes south
Fri May 24, 2024, 08:39 AM
May 2024

it can make a cop forget that the back doors can only be opened from the outside. DTF

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