“And the more I thought about it the angrier I got,” she said. Lesnett, who also works at another agency and has been in law enforcement since graduating from the West Virginia academy in 2016, said she was “shocked” and “appalled” to learn about the recordings. San Antonio Police Departmentģ San Antonio officers charged with murder in fatal shooting of woman at her apartment We should stand rock solid behind them and we’ll clean up the bad stuff.”Ī still from body camera video released by the San Antonio Police Department shows police firing into the apartment of Melissa Ann Perez. “These people are doing good work, and they’re doing good work every day. “They don’t need to have rocks thrown at them,” Justice said. Justice vowed to weed out those responsible for wrongdoing and urged the public to support the State Police. “Maybe there’s no way to recover evidence, but we ought to try… because we’re absolutely better than this,” said Justice, referring to evidence that was allegedly destroyed. The state Homeland Security Department and the state police launched separate investigations into the matter. Toriseva said she believes others had to be involved and accused officials of “blaming somebody who can’t speak for themselves.” Justice replaced the head of the State Police and blamed a high-ranking academy official who died in 2016. The complaint also said the plaintiff “will likely never know with certainty whether the recordings of her in the female shower and locker facilities … still exist, who has those recordings, who has viewed those recordings, and whether they will ever be released to the public and/or posted online.” The lawsuit accused members of the State Police of “knowingly, wantonly and intentionally” destroying evidence of the video recordings. Multiple deputies fired after 2 Black men file lawsuit alleging torture and attempted sexual assault in Mississippi “There was three troopers that found a thumb drive and absolutely from that they found the video, and then from what I understand one, if not all, you know, immediately jerked the thumb drive out and threw it on the floor and started stomping on it… You can’t make this stuff up,” Justice told reporters at the time, shaking his head in disbelief. In March, Justice publicly admitted the use of the camera and hard drive and ordered an investigation.

The use of a hidden video camera came to light after anonymous letters to the governor’s office and other state officials accused police brass of widespread misconduct, including the destruction of the hidden camera and a hard drive containing hours of video showing female students and troopers using the shower and locker facilities.

Governor pledges to ‘clean up the bad stuff’ State Police declined comment, citing the “ongoing investigation and litigation.” Police are investigating the allegations of wrongdoing, as is the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security.ĬNN has not received responses to requests for comment from Homeland Security or the office of Gov. “That’s not just male-dominated, it’s anti-woman.” “It’s a hostile, misogynistic, toxic environment,” Toriseva said, referring to the state police and training academy. Talkington and Lesnett plan to file their complaints in the coming days, according to their attorney. The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, identifies the plaintiff as Jane Doe, a current state police employee who “is known to have been videotaped while using the female shower and locker facilities at the training academy.”Īttorney Teresa Toriseva, who filed the suit on behalf of her client, said she’s also representing about 70 other women – including minors who participated in a junior program at the academy – who have made similar allegations. New Haven PoliceĢ more New Haven officers are being fired in the police van transport incident that left Randy Cox paralyzed is seen inside a poice van after being arrested by New Haven police.

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