Milner, Georgia, loses its whole full-time police force in one meeting
Chief Lamar Bunn's complaint about a tracker on his truck and arguments over overtime sit behind resignations that take effect October 28.
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Milner's police chief is resigning, and he still says he wants to fix things. "I want to, even still today, rebuild what's broken," Lamar Bunn says near the end of FOX 5 Atlanta's report on the small Lamar County city, where the entire full-time police department walked away at a single city council meeting.
The announcement came from City Manager Tausha Grose, who quit too. "The trust is gone. I have been rendered ineffective in my position," she tells the council, before adding, "with my extreme sorrow," that the full-time force has resigned.
Reporter Hernan Gutierrez lays out the disputes behind the walkout. Bunn says a tracker, bought with personal funds, was placed on his truck without the council or his supervisor approving it, and he calls it a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. There were also arguments over overtime and over a policy on using city vehicles for part-time work.
Mayor Craig Timmons and Grose turned down interviews. At the meeting, Timmons says only that nothing about the situation satisfies him: "I hate to see it happen."
The clip runs under three minutes, and it passed a million views in little more than a day, a long way from the few thousand a Short from this station usually draws. The comment section moved even faster than the views. The most-liked comments say the report left them with more questions than answers, and many viewers trade guesses about which side of the dispute is hiding something.
Nobody leaves right away: the officers' last day is October 28, and Grose stays on until October 30.
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