A Southern California police chief has come underneath fireplace over a striptease incident at a vacation work get together.
Chula Vista’s high cop Roxana Kennedy is accused of placing two $1 payments in an officer’s pocket when he took his shirt off on the occasion on December 13.
She then bowed and returned to her seat whereas the group laughed and cheered on the Chippendale-style dance, in response to her lawyer Cory Briggs.
Kennedy disappeared on medical go away on the finish of January, resulting in rampant hypothesis her job was on the road.
However Briggs shot down the claims, arguing she has been the sufferer of a months-long conspiracy to strain her to stop the drive.
The drama stems from the police union’s vacation get together, through which two off-duty officers competed in a dance-off throughout a raffle on the get together, earlier than Kennedy slipped the topless one the $2.
Briggs instructed the San Diego Tribune: “One thing that was jovial and jocular and harmless amongst adults is now being twisted into one thing that wasn’t.”
He despatched a letter on Friday to the town asking it to protect all proof relating to “allegations of improper self-discipline, retaliation, discrimination and/or a hostile work setting,” and alleged “antagonistic actions” used in opposition to the chief.
The town hit again saying it was “deeply involved by these accusations,” and “categorically rejects all allegations” in his letter asking it to protect proof, together with emails.
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It additionally mentioned any sort of conspiracy to interchange the chief “is solely false.”
Chula Vista Mayor John McCann, who not too long ago returned from deployment as a Navy reservist, defended Kennedy.
He mentioned: “She has been an distinctive chief. I need to ensure that we are able to get again to having the town run in a superb, optimistic means, as a result of she has accomplished an extremely nice job because the police chief.”
Kennedy has been with the division for greater than 30 years and has been the pinnacle of the division since 2016.
Chula Vista police Sgt and police union president, David Martinez, mentioned she additionally has the assist from the union, whose total 10-member board voted unanimously to again her amid the turmoil.
Kennedy has been out on medical go away since January 23 and hit again not too long ago at a social media report claiming she was out on administrative go away and never coming again, calling it “inaccurate.”
She wrote: “To be clear, I’m at the moment on medical go away, not administrative go away. I’ve additionally made no plans for retirement.”
The town added it’s “prohibited from commenting on particular actions associated to the 2025 vacation get together or any particular person personnel matter,” citing “authorized constraints.”
