A Multnomah County probation officer has filed suit against her employer, the county’s Department of Community Justice, alleging gender discrimination and retaliation.
This actually is an astonishing story when you break it down.
According to the complaint, filed in federal court Aug. 28, the officer, Holly Fischer, was “treated like a perpetrator” after accusing a co-worker, her boyfriend at the time, of sodomizing her without her consent on St. Patrick’s Day 2017. The co-worker, Kevin Novinger, claimed the act never happened, and prosecutors declined to press charges.
WW reported the allegation last year after the county concluded Novinger was lying about what happened that night (“The Odd Squad,” WW, Aug. 10, 2022).
So she lies about a co-worker and boyfriend (don't fuck your co-workers people) and the county later determines the co-worker lied despite the prosecutors believing the opposite.
Fischer’s lawsuit alleges what happened next. She says she was forced to take a demotion in 2019 after making two errors during firearms training. The county subsequently forwarded “ninety pages of email communications and allegations of misconduct” to a psychologist, who ruled her unfit for service.
TWO ERRORS? During FIREARMS TRAINING? How the FUCK is she not fired after ONE?
Holy shit can you imagine working with someone who failed firearm training TWICE and still kept their job?
I guess they realized they couldn't fire her because she's a woman so the county decided to use a third party, in this case a psychologist.
But wait!
The ruling was overturned after another psychologist found the emails “were consistent with an individual processing a traumatic event” and that the first doctor had assumed the assault didn’t occur. Fischer returned to her job as a probation officer in December 2021, although she continues to be the subject of “negative gossip” and “unfounded oral reprimands,” according to the complaint.
Can't even fire her for that. Not in Portland.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries has already dismissed multiple complaints by Fischer regarding her treatment by the county. The county did not respond to a request for comment prior to publication.
The ruling was overturned after another psychologist found the emails “were consistent with an individual processing a traumatic event”
I remember reading an article titled something like "Inconsistencies in rape accusations are evidence of truth", and it was all about how we should expect rape accusers to contradict themselves. Find the right psychologist- and it's probably not that hard- and there is absolutely nothing in those emails that could have convinced him that they weren't true. If this one is using the words "consistent with a traumatic event", he is almost certainly one of those psychologists. #ListenAndBelieve.
So she lies about a co-worker and boyfriend (don't fuck your co-workers people) and gets proven wrong.
Not that this affects anything that much, but it's actually the opposite: the article reported that the boyfriend was determined to be lying about the incident.
I would only push back slightly and ask what errors occured in firearms training. They are deliberately vague there and I'm curious why. Did she get chewed out for weapon malfunctions and needing to clear them? Did she flag the shit of somebody? Have a negligent discharge? No idea. They're being vague. "Errors during"!="failed twice". Not by a longshot.
This actually is an astonishing story when you break it down.
So she lies about a co-worker and boyfriend (don't fuck your co-workers people) and the county later determines the co-worker lied despite the prosecutors believing the opposite.
TWO ERRORS? During FIREARMS TRAINING? How the FUCK is she not fired after ONE?
Holy shit can you imagine working with someone who failed firearm training TWICE and still kept their job?
I guess they realized they couldn't fire her because she's a woman so the county decided to use a third party, in this case a psychologist.
But wait!
Can't even fire her for that. Not in Portland.
What an absolutely pathetic country we live in.
I remember reading an article titled something like "Inconsistencies in rape accusations are evidence of truth", and it was all about how we should expect rape accusers to contradict themselves. Find the right psychologist- and it's probably not that hard- and there is absolutely nothing in those emails that could have convinced him that they weren't true. If this one is using the words "consistent with a traumatic event", he is almost certainly one of those psychologists. #ListenAndBelieve.
Not that this affects anything that much, but it's actually the opposite: the article reported that the boyfriend was determined to be lying about the incident.
These are the "trained police and military" that should be the only people with guns, according to graboids.
I think you misread it.
They did not press charges, they investigated and found no proof.
EDIT: Oh I see that the county determined he was lying. You are right, but the psychologist later determined she was lying.
I would only push back slightly and ask what errors occured in firearms training. They are deliberately vague there and I'm curious why. Did she get chewed out for weapon malfunctions and needing to clear them? Did she flag the shit of somebody? Have a negligent discharge? No idea. They're being vague. "Errors during"!="failed twice". Not by a longshot.