An upstate New York prosecutor who came under fire for calling a police officer who pulled him over for speeding a “terrible person” has deleted his social media accounts amid the impending controversy.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Dawley ignored a Webster, N.Y., police officer who tried to do his job and pulled her over after he spotted her speeding and threw away her privileges, police body camera revealed. It has been heavily criticized ever since it was captured on video.
Now, the embattled prosecutor appears to be making himself rare online.
“The officials [X] “Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office Sandra Dawley’s page has been removed,” WHEC-TV News reporter Posted by Jennifer Luke on Xformerly known as Twitter, Sunday.
“Last I checked, the comments on every post were flooded with comments from all over the world calling for her to resign,” Luke said in the post.
A check of Dolly DA’s Facebook page revealed that the content is no longer available.
Mr. Dawley’s office did not respond to a request for comment from the Post on Sunday.
Prosecutors in an upstate state were fuming last week after body camera footage allegedly captured a brazen encounter with a police officer and clocked him going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone.
Dooley refused to pull over and drove home, calling the unnamed officer an “idiot” and saying, “I know the law better than you” when he asked for his ID. I scoffed.
She then called Webster Police Chief Dennis Kohlmeyer to complain and got on the phone with the unscrupulous officer, the footage shows.
Despite the prosecutor’s tantrums, she received a traffic ticket and eventually paid off the fine, but only after the explosive video went viral and prompted calls for her resignation.
“Once you realize the intention, [police car] When he tried to pull me over, I called Chief Webster to let him know I was not a threat and that I was going to speak to the officers at my home down the street,” she said in a statement. Ta.
Although the crime came a little too late, the riot on video did not go unnoticed by the Rochester City Council, which unanimously sent a letter to state Attorney General Letitia James requesting an investigation into Mr. Dooley.
The attorney general’s office did not respond to a request for comment Sunday.
