OFF THE WIRE
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Boulder City, Nevada Police Chief and bully Thomas Finn will probably be
fired when he reports back to work on Monday and he is not taking that well.
Finn’s woes began last June when he decided to use his police powers to bully
members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. The Mongols chose Boulder City as the
destination for their national run. The Mongols were accompanied by a local
lawyer named Stephen Stubbs who had filed a federal civil rights suit on behalf
of the Southern Nevada Confederation of Clubs. The suit complains about the
multiple incidents of harassment, intimidation and other abuses by Las Vegas
area police departments. Finn tried to cover his own tracks by destroying some
of the records related to the harassment of the Mongols.
Finn tried to bully Stubbs into silence with a defamation law suit. Stubbs
won that legal battle, was awarded $17,000 in damages and began garnishing
Finn’s wages. Finn earns about $185,000 in salary and benefits from Boulder City
and he gets another $109,000 in retirement income from his previous employer,
the city East Brunswick, New Jersey.
The Victim Finn
After losing civil cases to Stubbs and a Boulder City cop named Dan Jennings,
Finn kept complaining that he was not a bully but rather a victim. And a rat. He
filed ethics complaints with the Nevada Attorney General against Boulder City’s
Mayor, the City Manager and a City Councilman. He also filed a complaint with
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in which he claimed he is about to
be fired not because he is a shameless bully that not even other cops can stand,
not because he is a fool whose department lost an M-16, but because he is
Catholic. He will probably file another suit this month against Boulder City
after he is officially thrown out of his office.
Finn has also learned a little about how journalism works during his time of
troubles. He complained on-camera to the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas,
KLAS, “I’ve got 35 years without a verbal reprimand, no discipline in
my file. I’ve never been charged with doing anything illegal, not even a policy
violation. For them to now destroy my reputation in this way, and take pleasure
in doing so, I’m just standing up. I am not going to let that happen.” Finn acts
like a man who believes his own lies because he hears them coming out of his
mouth.
The Mormons
Finn was back on KLAS this week talking to the station’s “Chief
Investigative Reporter,” a man named George Knapp. He told Knapp that he is a
victim of anti-Catholic bias by Mormons. Until recent decades, Nevada was a
largely Mormon state. About 16 percent of the residents of Boulder City are
Mormons and many city officials are Mormons.
“They are trying to blame everything on me,” Finn told Knapp. “I’m surprised
they haven’t blamed the Lindbergh kidnapping on me, but I’m sure that’s
coming.”
Fortunately for truth and justice, Finn only knows a little about how
journalism works. He has managed to attract attention to himself and he has
managed to portray himself as a victim to a television guy who needs an
attention grabbing story. But Finn really does not appear sympathetic on-camera.
The Las Vegas metropolitan area has been economically devastated in the last
five years and he might find it difficult to convince area residents that
anybody who makes $300,000 a year is a victim. Finn isn’t going to get his job
back no matter what he claims on TV. And, the best Finn can hope for is that his
fantastic claims of victimhood will eventually attract all the Vegas news
sharks.
If he had the sense to come in out of the rain Finn would understand that
more press scrutiny is the last thing he wants. You can watch the KLAS
video below.
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