Judge says San Diego police officer stalked ex-husband, orders her to surrender firearms<\/a><\/p>\n Officer suing for discrimination <\/p>\n
Court records show that on the same day, the department sent Stephanie a letter stating the restraining order \u201ccame to their attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was directed to immediately relinquish any department-issued weapons and controlled items, including my service pistol, Ruger Carbine, shotgun, AR-15, handgun magazines, police radio, high-capacity magazines, OC, baton, taser, body armor, electronic key card, badge(s), and identification card,\u201d Stephanie wrote in her declaration.<\/p>\n
Last month, the officer announced she was suing SDPD for discrimination.<\/p>\n
Her attorney told reporters after Wahl let her return to work, rumors spread that she had an affair with him , which she denies.<\/p>\n
“She became the target of sexist and degrading rumors that she had an affair with Chief Wahl, that she traded sex for leniency,” said Mila Arutunian, Cockrell’s employment attorney.<\/p>\n
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Amol Brown\/Team 10<\/p>\n
Employment attorney Emilia Arutunian says San Diego Police failed to protect officer Stephanie Cockrell from sexist discrimination. <\/p>\n
Team 10 reported in August the City of San Diego paid over $37,000 to a law firm to launch a confidential investigation into allegations made against Wahl.<\/p>\n
Stephanie said in her legal claim last month an anonymous letter sent to the city council alleged she had an affair with the chief and triggered an internal affairs investigation.<\/p>\n
‘Heightened personal safety concern’<\/p>\n
The officer, who said she has no criminal record or history of violence, is now asking the court to grant her an exemption so she can get both her personal and service-issued firearms back.<\/p>\n
She said as a female officer, she is often at a physical disadvantage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been recognized while off-duty by individuals that I previously arrested, which creates a heightened personal safety concern. Being permitted to carry a firearm while off-duty is a critical component of my ability to protect myself,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Court records show Stephanie was scheduled to undergo a psychological evaluation Thursday \u2014 a mandatory requirement before a court can consider restoring an officer\u2019s right to possess firearms.<\/p>\n
Stephanie and San Diego police did not respond to Team 10\u2019s requests for comment before press deadline Thursday.<\/p>\n
A judge is expected to rule on her request in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2014 A veteran San Diego police officer who was forced by a judge to turn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8876,236,8877,74,76,75,985,8875,986,8878,8279],"class_list":["post-9218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-cockrell","tag-police","tag-restraining-order","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police","tag-scott-wahl","tag-sdpd","tag-stephanie-cockrell","tag-suing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}