Convicted Felon Is Nashville Police Union Rep?
Posted on August 18, 2007 at 1:20 am by WTH
Well, this one takes the cake, for sure. According to Nashville TV station WKRN Nashville’s Police have gotten a union representative who was convicted in 1989 of conspiracy to commit murder!
The union rep is a member of the Teamsters who were selected by the city police union as their representatives. Convict Joe Bennett was put in place as the cop’s union rep by the Teamsters themselves without his past history revealed to the police ahead of time.
Convicted Felon Works For Teamsters’ Local Chapter
Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas said he had no idea a convicted felon is one of the union representatives for many of his officers.
Joe Bennett is the man at the center of the latest controversy involving the Teamsters.
Bennett was booked into jail over a decade ago and now works to represent Metro’s men and women in blue.
In 1989, he was convicted of conspiracy to take human life and solicitation to commit murder for hiring a hit man.
He served time in prison.
“Not only is it morally wrong to be involved in an organization who employ convicted felons, it’s also against our policy to associate with convicted felons,” said one Metro officer who is a member of the Teamsters.˜
Chief Serpas said he’s never heard of Bennett, but stands by his policy that his officers should not associate with convicted felons.
Bennett and the Teamsters were not available for comment.
The funniest line of the WKRN report is this one:
Chief Serpas said he’s never heard of Bennett, but stands by his policy that his officers should not associate with convicted felons.
It’s no wonder that the Teamsters “were not available for comment!”
But leave it to the Teamsters to put a convict in place as a rep for the police. They must’ve had a hearty laugh at that one!
