How COVID, BLM protests and two dead cows came between Bethel s mayor and police chief
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WCPO Staff
and last updated 2021-02-18 19:56:46-05
BETHEL, Ohio â There s not much Mayor Jay Noble and Police Chief Steve Teague have seen eye to eye on over the last year.
In a lengthy Feb. 4 memo to the Bethel Village Council, Noble outlined a laundry list of accusations 11 in all criticizing Teague s conduct while overseeing the department over the last year and calling for his removal from office.
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The day before a Black Lives Matter rally in Clermont County s village of Bethel turned into a national spectacle last June, police officers received reports that counterprotesters were planning to disrupt the event, possibly with violence.
One report warned that motorcycle gangs, including the Hells Angels, planned to attend the rally in hopes of breaking it up. Another said people opposed to Black Lives Matter were being urged to shower the protesters with a good old ass kicking.
Despite the reports of potential violence, which were revealed in an independent audit submitted to village officials this month, Bethel police were significantly outnumbered and outgunned when armed counterprotesters swarmed into Bethel on June 14 and June 15, the audit found.
Bethel police chief on leave as departmental review faults his handling of protests BLM protesters clash with anti-protesters Monday in Bethel, Ohio. (Source: WXIX) By Jennifer Edwards Baker | January 27, 2021 at 2:25 PM EST - Updated January 27 at 2:32 PM
CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (FOX19) - The chief of a local police department is on paid administrative leave amid an independent review that found issues with his handling of protests that turned violent last summer, including his use of force with a Taser and overall leadership style.
Bethel Village Council requested the independent audit of the police department and Police Chief Steve Teague in September.
Cincinnati and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year that was 2020
Some nice things happened! (Like, two) Cheers, 2020! You were horrible. (Source: WXIX) By Brian Planalp | December 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM EST - Updated December 31 at 6:50 PM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Difficult. Trying. Unprecedented.
These are the words just a few of them we use to describe what kind of year it’s been. (Did they run out of meaning by April or June?)
Meanwhile, the year itself, “2020,” lurks somewhere between a lament and a punchline hard to say aloud without laughing, whether it’s funny or not.
Often it was not. Businesses closed. People went missing. Beloved community members died. Shootings turned grotesquely commonplace.