Citizen Report No. 1652648143 - 57493541

Gary Wayne Dodd

Johnston County Sheriff's Office

110 North Capitol Avenue

Tishomingo, Oklahoma 73460

(580) 371-2646

https://sheriff.okl…

Date of Offense

January 26, 2022

Offense(s)

Conduct Unbecoming

Supporting Document(s)

Video

Sheriff Dodd - No Body Cam

Body Camera Policy

Statement

On January 22, 2022 - a US Airforce Veteran was outside Alliance Health Durant Hospital in Bryan County, OK exercising his 1st Amendment Right to film in public. Sheriff Gary Dodd approached the door of the hospital while announcing to his Deputies: "Watch out for him, he's recording us, IDIOT".

The contempt for a citizen filming in public speaks volumes! It should also be mentioned that Deputies for the Johnston County Sheriff's Department did confirm via social media posts of the video that the ELECTED Sheriff was in fact at the Hospital that day conducting his elected duties, therefore the Veteran had a Constitutional right under the 1st Amendment to capture the attached video.

Also note: Johnston County Sheriff's Department Body Camera Policy dating as far back as 2014 - dictates that body cameras are to "be carried by all deputies while on duty". - Sheriff Dodd as well as one of the two Deputies with him that day did NOT have on a body worn camera as policy dictates they should.

We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.

WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
#ReformIsNotARequest

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