Beeville rescinds firing of former police chief, accepts resignation<\/a><\/p>\nFormer Beeville Police Chief Kevin Behr is speaking out after losing his job last year and talking about his run for Bee County Judge.<\/p>\n
Behr served as police chief for three years before the city fired him last August following a complaint alleging he made inappropriate sexual remarks to a female officer. The allegations sent shockwaves through City Hall and the police department.<\/p>\n
Behr has consistently denied the claims.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was given the opportunity to resign or be terminated for this allegation, this confirmed allegation,\u201d Behr said. \u201cI refused to resign. I did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
What followed was months of behind-the-scenes negotiations. In November, Behr and the city reached a financial settlement. Then, just days before the end of the year, the City of Beeville reversed course officially rescinding his termination and accepting a voluntary resignation instead.<\/p>\n
The city also offered Behr his old job back.<\/p>\n
Instead, Behr says he\u2019s turning the page and taking his leadership experience into politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe I brought a lot to the police department,\u201d Behr said. \u201cI brought them kicking and screaming, perhaps into the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behr is now running in the March Republican primary for Bee County Judge, where he\u2019ll face Commissioners Sammy Farias and Kristofer Linney. The winner will become the county\u2019s next judge.<\/p>\n
Behr says controversy hasn\u2019t scared him off and may have prepared him for the role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to be a 40-hour-a-week plus, accessible County Judge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Until primary day, Behr plans to crisscross Bee County, meeting voters face-to-face and making his case as the race moves from the police department to the ballot box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 It\u2019s a story that started with controversy, moved through a costly settlement, and now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-108033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}