Suspended LMPD CoP on the record as saying basically “if you can't work with a colleague who sexually abused you turn in your badge and gun”
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Gwinn-Villaroel asked in the recording, “I’m going to ask, is there anybody within this command staff or executive staff you can’t work with?”
When she got around to Major Shannon Lauder, Lauder said, “I cannot work with Major (Brian) Kuriger. He has sexually harassed me and attacked me, and I cannot work with him.”
She didn’t go into detail.
What happened next was even more shocking than Lauder’s claims; Gwinn-Villaroel announced that she was promoting Kuriger to the rank of lieutenant colonel and then she implied if anybody on the staff had a problem with that, well just like in a bad television show, they should turn in their gun and badge.
“I will not have a major that cannot get along and support another major because y’all had an issue,” Gwinn-Villaroel said.
“That is over. And if you can’t do that, turn in your stuff to me today because these troops out here deserve people who can be professional at all times and show up and be present. But if you cannot support me as your chief, if you’ve got a problem with me, turn in your stuff today. I’m giving everybody (until) 5 p.m. today.”