WHERE IS ALL THE CHATTER ABOUT AN ABSENT WHITE CITY BOARD MEMBER?

When both Ward 2 Director Ken Richardson and Ward 1 Director Erma Hendrix , both black, missed some board meetings folks were screaming they needed to be replaced.

At-large Director Joan Adcock has missed all of the meetings of the board in the new year and not one individual has raised an eyebrow or suggest she be replaced.

Chew on that.

IS ACTING LRPD CHIEF HAYWARD FINKS TOO DUMB TO BE CHIEF?

ACTING LRPD CoP HAYWARD FINKS - TOO DUMB TO BE CHIEF?

We obtained all the applications for the open LRPD Chief of Police Position. We found that three active LRPD officers have applied for the position, Assistant Chief's Alice Fulk and Hayward Finks along with patrolman Ethan Williams.

Finks was hired by LRPD in 1988 and Fulk in 1992 . Williams was first hired in 2005 and he quit in 2013 to attend college; he rejoined in 2017.

ALICE FULK

ETHAN WILLIAMS

In Finks' application packet there is a letter in which he makes reference that he had attached a resume. Fink's resume was not included in the response the city provided to our FOI request.

So we attempted to obtain a copy of Fink's missing resume. We were not successful.

We noticed and odd coincidence in the files we obtained. Take a look at Finks' letter again.

Now look at the one from Fulk. 

We find it too coincidental that the letterhead is similar, same blue color used for both. Did Finks and Fulk have the same secretary type their letter for them?

Did the secretary try and sabotage Finks? 

Did Finks intentionally not submit one so that he could look at Fulk's and try and match it?

Or as we suspect, is Finks too dumb to realize that he forgot to include his resume if he actually had one prepared.

Stay tuned for updates.

***UPDATE - 01/16/18***

We sent an email to the city of Little Rock Human Resources Department about Finks' missing resume.  They told us that they did not receive it. We then sent an email to Finks asking about it and he referred us to the HR department. We responded and pointed out that our email had our request to them and their response. We never heard back from him. 

We also received information that Finks, like all other applicants, had to fill out an online application and upload a resume. 

Finks did not understand our simple question and request. He tried to wiggle out and told us to talk to HR about the "application process" when we did not ask about that , we just wanted to know what happened to his resume.

Finks is just like his former boss, that befouled POS Kenton Tremar Buckner.

We don't need a Buckner clone as our new CoP. 
 

WHITE-RUN BOARD BREAKS TRADITION TO AVOID APPOINTING A BLACK VICE MAYOR

The white majority Little Rock Board of Directors voted Tuesday night in an executive session to recycle Ward 7 director B.J. Wyrick to be Vice Mayor in order to keep Ken Richardson from getting the position. Wyrick was Vice Mayor from January 2000 until December 2001.

The board has a tradition that a member with tenure that has not held the position of Vice Mayor is usually the one to be selected. 

Neither Ken Richardson or Erma Hendrix have ever held that position. Both are black.

Capi Peck, who is white, is the newest member of the board has never held that position either.

This is a racist board, as Director Hendrix is fond of saying, and you can do some research and you will find that no proposed ordinance put forth by Hendrix or Richardson has ever gotten enough votes to pass. That is institutional racism and those old decrepit white directors, and Doris Wright (who most always votes with the whites) cannot offer any other explanation than institutional racism.

It's time to sign the petitions to recall these ancient assholes and get this city  on moving forward.

We will go into each board member with great detail and give you some information about them you won't find anywhere else.

Juicy stuff is on the way. Grab some popcorn and get ready.

MAYOR SCOTT ASKS LRPD FOR 24/7 SECURITY DETAIL AFTER RECEIVING DEATH THREATS

MAYOR SCOTT WANTS A 24/7 SECURITY DETAIL PROVIDED FOR HIM AT WORK & HOME

We received a tip that Mayor Scott asked City Manager Bruce Moore to have LRPD provide a 24/7 security detail for protection after receiving death and other threats.

MAYOR SCOTT & CITY MANAGER BRUCE MOORE AT SCOTT'S FIRST BOARD MEETING AS MAYOR

A spokesman for Mayor Scott confirmed that in an off-air telephone conversation during the Black Focus show on the JoyNetRadio.com today (it will be a topic of discussion on the show tomorrow from 12 - 2pm).

The spokesman stated that Scott's stand on the no-knock raids, wanting to establish a citizens review committee and other issues (especially the LRFOP) had made him a target. 

We also learned that Mayor Scott took over the office suite that the City Manager was in due to concerns about "too much" accessibility in the office that the previous mayors occupied.

Stay tuned for more information as this is a breaking story.

***Correction***

One of our city hall sources advised that Moore has not been evicted from his office. Work is being done on the Sister Cities Conference Room to turn it into a new office for Mayor Scott. 

TWO LRPD OFFICERS SUSPENDED DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENTS

Two Little Rock Police officers have been placed on leave and are subject of internal investigations as a result of two unrelated domestic violence incidents.

Officer Ahmed "Jack" Soliman, a/k/a Ahmed Hassa Soliman-Motawie, and Det. Terry McDaniel  have been relieved of duty and are on paid leave pending the outcome of the internal investigations and associated criminal proceedings.

Somalian-Motawie's troubles came to a head back on September 23, 2018. He got into an argument with an ex-girlfriend, Kristen Giggleman and sometime during the encounter he grabbed a knife and intentionally cut himself. The report suggests that Soliman-Motawie might have been stalking her.

KRISTEN GIGGLEMAN - SOLIMAN-MOTAWIE'S VICTIM

 

 

You can view the complete report by clicking here.

Somalian-Motawie's had been recently divorced from his wife Kathryn. The decree from their divorce was filed on May 21, 2018.

You can view the complaint for divorce his wife filed by clicking here and the decree by clicking here.

Giggleman subsequently filed a complaint against Somalian-Motawie and he was charged with Domestic Battering 3 Degree and arrested. The judge in the matter, Hugh Finkelstein, issued a no contact order on October 11, 2018 and had Somalian-Motawie surrender his passport (we have sent a FOI request for filings in this case, but have not yet received the records).

On  October 21, 2018, Somalian-Motawie really screwed the pooch and violated the order of protection. He went to the residence of a relative of Giggleman's which was in violation of the no contact order issued October 11th.

 

You can view the complete report by clicking here.

Somalian-Motawie was arrested again (we have sent a FOI request for filings in this case, but have not yet received the records).

Stay tuned for updates about Somalian-Motawie.

Now to the matter of Det. Terry McDaniel. His domestic abuse case involves Lori Gore, the mother of his two children.

LORI GORE - McDANIEL'S VICTIM

On December 19, 2018, Gore called LRPD after McDaniel tried to kick her door in and then broke a window of her residence and threatened to "beat her ass and hide her where nobody could ever find her". 

We assume a homicide detective could possibly do that - hide a body that is.

You can view the full report by clicking here.

Gore subsequently filed for an order of protection against McDaniel, which was temporarily granted by Judge Michael Reif. A hearing will be held on January 16th at 10:00 am on the matter (we have sent a FOI request for filings in this case, but have not yet received the records)

NOTICE TO McDANIEL ABOUT THE HEARING FOR THE ORDER OF PROTECTION

McDaniel also filed a lawsuit against Gore. In it he claims she filed a false police report about the domestic abuse incident. McDaniel also claims she uses drugs and fake identification.

Apparently McDaniel might have violated a few of LRPD's General Orders and Rules and Regulations in his relationship with her if his allegations are true and he never filed a report about her. Shenanigans all around. 

McDaniel has shot and killed at least two men during his time with LRPD. One of those killings almost caused a riot. The circumstances surrounding both shooting were questionable.

We have obtained videos from LRPD of when they responded to calls from both victims. We will have edited versions posted as soon as possible.

Check back for updates.

***UPDATE - 01/07/19 1:00PM***

We received the court filings for the Order of Protection case involving Det. McDaniel. This is from the affidavit of Ms. Gore.

 

LRPD IDENTIFIES TWO OFFICERS CAUGHT DRIFTING IN THEIR POLICE SUV'S IN A 10 FITNESS PARKING LOT - THE INCIDENT WAS CAPTURED ON VIDEO BY A CITIZEN

LRPD OFFICERS FALLS & WATSON - Photos courtesy of the Bordeaux/Racop Transparency Project

At approximately 3:53 a.m. on Sunday December 16th, two LRPD SUV's were observed drifting in the parking lot of 10 Fitness at University and Col. Glenn.

Their hijinks was caught on video by a Little Rock citizen.

LRPD has identified the two officers as Quinton Falls and Brooke Watson.

These buffons violated LRPD Rules and Regulations.

They also violated some LRPD General Orders as well.

 We will post updates as information becomes available.

LAST TERM MAYOR STODOLA CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE - BOARD WILL VOTE TONIGHT TO BUMP UP HIS RETIREMENT BENEFITS

We posted back on November 9th that last term mayor Mark Stodola was seeking a bump in salary during his last weeks in office to reap higher retirement benefits.

You can read that post by clicking here.

Thanks to the Arkansas Times and Max Brantley's Arkansas blog, we learned late yesterday that a proposed ordinance is to be voted on at tonight's reconvened board meeting that would do just what we said and more.  

In addition to the salary bump during Stodola's last weeks in office, if he kicks the bucket before his ailing wife, she will get widows benefits.

We have sent a request for records about the proposed ordinance and which board members have proposed it.

You do not want to miss watching the live stream of the reconvened board meeting on the city's YouTube channel tonight.  It should prove painful for last term mayor Stodola.

By the way, chicken-shit last term mayor Stodola never followed up on that email request for all the times our publisher has been wrong.  

Maybe he should use that city paid health insurance and get a testosterone booster to help his vanishing balls issue.

***UPDATE 12/11/18 10:23AM***

Human Resources Director Stacey Witherell has provided the smoking gun that proves last term mayor Mark Stolda is a lying piece of shit and needs to be run out of town on a rail after the public tars and feathers him.