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[Elvis]

Officer disciplined for stopping doctor on way to birth
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Posted: 1:55 PM EST (1855 GMT) Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Posted: 1:55 PM EST (1855 GMT)
 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- A police officer who stopped a doctor for speeding on his way to deliver a baby, and then took him to the maternity ward in handcuffs, has agreed to an unpaid suspension for lack of judgment.

Dr. Anthony Chidiac was driving his motorcycle 10 miles above the 25 mph speed limit last March when he was stopped by 15-year veteran Officer William Lilliston.

According to records released Monday from an internal police investigation, when the doctor explained he was going to a delivery, the officer allegedly asked if he was delivering a pizza and later said, "If you're a doctor, I'm Mickey Mouse or Joe Blow."

Lilliston called the hospital to confirm Chidiac's story, and drove him to the hospital as the baby's head was showing. The officer then asked to see the doctor's driver's license before letting Chidiac change into scrubs.

Chidiac delivered the baby 15 minutes after the handcuffs were removed.

The officer, who said the doctor had been slow in pulling over, later wrote Chidiac a traffic citation.

The officer agreed last month to serve a 16-day unpaid suspension under a negotiated settlement, said Jack Lokeinsky, his union's president. The case is scheduled to go before a Citizen Review Board on April 11.

Lokeinsky said Lilliston's actions did not warrant a more severe punishment because the doctor should have pulled over immediately and shown his identification.

"We strongly feel if he had been dismissed, it would have been overturned on arbitration," Lokeinsky told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper.

Lilliston does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Chidiac was on vacation and also could not be reached, his office said.

[Dr. Evil]

Let me just say (as a cop of 15 years some may take this as biased) we do not have the whole story.  

Generally, the media lies and twists things to make a better story.  I have given MANY stories to the media... and 90% of the time the final result is nowhere near what I gave to them.  

Take everything you read/see in the media with MANY grains of salt.  Trust me.  [smiley=laugh.gif]

[ccr]

DJW, I work in communications as well, and TG, I personally am not on the front line, but I help to publish assistance to those that are. It is a rough world out there.  The reporters only job is to sell a story.  Any story.  I would love to hear your stories this spring at the smokeys, ought to be very interesting.  [smiley=laugh.gif]

[Elvis]

Let me just say (as a cop of 15 years some may take this as biased) we do not have the whole story.

[Dr. Evil]

Exactly Elvis.... there is MUCH more to the story than we were told.  There is NO way that there would have been any suspension time involved in that story the way it is.  And believe me... I work with a few guys/gals who are WORSE than Mickey Mouse.  This story just sounds fishy to me. [smiley=confused5.gif]

Mrs. We, if you have the time... I have the stories  [smiley=laugh.gif]

[HUBBARD]

Yeah, 'er 'uh, DJW,
 I agree with you.  My Hat's off to you, sir!  "To Protect and Serve" entrusts you with a great burden, of which the liberal media is a participant.  Later--HUBBARD

[Dr. Evil]

Hub... we call 'em the Criminal-liberal media.   [smiley=laugh.gif]