'Probably if HR saw this they'd put a kibosh on that'
"You don't talk about 'Hell Day,'" said the former Goodyear PD officer and SWAT operator. “I’ll probably get a lot of (
expletive) or more people will hate me because I’m saying it, but whatever.”
The former officer, whose name was redacted in Chandler police reports described 'Hell Day' in detail.
"You get handcuffed. You get a black mask thrown over your head. You get your gun taken from you," he said.
"Hell Day" is a controversial initiation day for Goodyear Police Department's part-time SWAT team, and not a formal term used by the department, according to the current chief of police, Santiago Rodriquez.