Two Georgia police officers who used a simulated coin toss to decide whether to arrest a woman during a traffic stop have been fired.
Roswell city spokeswoman Julie Brechbill tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson were fired Thursday, weeks after video of the April stop surfaced. The officers had been on administrative leave.
The footage showed them using a cellphone app mimicking a coin toss to decide whether to arrest Sarah Webb, who’d been pulled over for speeding.
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