It is the first time Massachusetts has decertified an officer under a 2020 police reform law that was created and passed in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police off…
The state’s law enforcement licensing commission decertified a former Woburn police officer accused of helping plan a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., a move that adds the cop’s name to a national database of decertified officers.
“The respondent John Donnelly has entered into a voluntary decertification agreement under which he has agreed to the revocation of his certification as a law enforcement officer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the entry of his decertification in the National Decertification Index,” the order reads, referring to a national registry of officers whose certifications or licenses were revoked because of officer misconduct.
Donnelly resigned from his post only days after he was suspended and “prior to the conclusion of its internal investigation into this matter and prior to the imposition of any discipline,” according to the POST Commission. The POST Commission started a “preliminary inquiry” into the allegations against Donnelly on Nov. 22, 2022. A month earlier, a reporter from HuffPost.com and a group called Ignite the Right “both publicly alleged that [Donnelly] engaged in misconduct and/or is unfit to be a police officer in Massachusetts,” the POST Commission said in an outline of the case that Donelly signed on March 26.
“Since its inception, the POST Commission has met statutory obligations and deadlines while focusing on the critical tasks associated with building the agency, Zuniga said in a statement to the Herald. ” We anticipate regularly updating this section going forward.”
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