Dallas officer fired for driving past pleading mother whose kids had been kidnapped


Dallas Police Chief David Brown has fired an officer who drove away from a woman who tried to flag him down after her children had been kidnapped at gunpoint.

Senior Cpl. Les Richardson, a 28-year department veteran, was one of two officers fired Wednesday. Brown suspended another officer for 45 days.

While Richardson, 61, was on his way to a burglary call Aug. 25, dispatchers announced that shots had been fired and a suspect had rammed a woman’s car in the area where Richardson was driving, police said.

He then drove past a woman who was shouting, “That’s him, that’s him, right there.”

“Right here what, baby? I’m on a call,” Richardson said before quickly driving off. The exchange was captured on dash-cam video, which was released Wednesday. It also shows him smoking a cigarette in the patrol car.

The woman was referring to her ex, Steven Douglas, who had rammed her car with his pickup and taken two children out of her car at gunpoint.

Hours later, Douglas led police on a car chase. He hit a van and then fled on foot. Witnesses and an officer who caught up to him said Douglas pointed a gun at the officer. The officer fatally shot Douglas, 29.

The children, who were with a family member, were unharmed.

Brown also fired patrol Officer Leroy Sharp for missing 121 days of work without permission last year. Sharp left work early March 21, 2013, saying he was sick. He later said he needed to be off for a while.

Sharp’s initial leave of absence was approved through July 2013, but his commanders denied a subsequent request. Sharp still didn’t show up to work.

In the suspension case, Officer Doyle Wynn was disciplined for failing to fill out a domestic violence report Nov. 5, 2013, for a woman who had “visible injuries,” police said. Wynn took the woman to her home while the suspect was there and the officer waited as she retrieved her personal property, police said.

While Wynn was under investigation, a supervisor caught him sleeping in his squad car Dec. 20, 2013, after he had been dispatched to a call. The supervisor tapped on the window and told him to go to the call, which he arrived at 37 minutes after he had been dispatched.

that typical DPD...

Have lost 2 high end Covered Chrome and Black Motorcycle Trailers

that I used for event, cargo trailers "back in the day"...

Lost one of them at the ol Holiday Inn on Regal Row, where an officer

was "resting his eyes" on duty, in the hotel lobby...

trailer less than 50 feet from where he was

"resting" on a couch. Kind of looked like that guy... but frumpier

in the face... sideways to a HUGE Window everything visible to

him... they cut all the locks 6 to 8 maybe had cables strapped from

coach to trailer. Dallas has made me permanently locknuts.


All pieces left on the asphalt ...he was gone when I called 911

They would NOT even come out...called for "2 days" before they took a

report over the phone...needed a report for insurance.

Second time pretty much the same except no officer

was 50 feet from the crime... I get to sounding and acting like

ole Lurch from the Adams family when I talk dallas stuff

These policemen can go to Ferguson, Missouri and get jobs. I've heard they need good policemen there.