Dirty cop said racial slurs. This is her mugshot from 2020. She was the cop who held a realtor and his buyer at gunpoint in 2018. |
The Cincinnati Police are doing damage control after a white cop said NIGGER on her body camera.
Rose Valentino, a former reality TV star who participated as a four member women unit of the department, could lose her job after she was caught saying racial slurs when she was complaining about her daily patrol. This dirty cop has been a taxpayer's burden.
Valentino has a lengthy history of misconduct. This is the latest and could possibly lead to the cannon firing she deserves.
14-yr Cincinnati (OH) police veteran Rose Valentino was caught on bodycam using slurs during an outburst! Her behavior is disgusting & highly worrisome, considering this isn't the 1st time her aggression has escalated an incident. She shouldn't be patrolling our communities! pic.twitter.com/AV9mBXYxWk
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) July 28, 2022
In 2020, Valentino and her sister were arrested on charges of domestic violence and criminal damaging after an argument at a card game turned violent, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
Valentino and her sister, Angela Hauger, are accused of hitting each other with fists and repeatedly striking the hood of each other’s vehicles with an umbrella, according to criminal complaints filed in Butler County Area I Court.
Valentino faces an additional charge of assault. She is accused of punching a male relative of Hauger’s, the complaint states.
Both women had swollen eyes, an incident report states. They were criminally charged for their dispute.
In 2011, Valentino was one of four female Cincinnati police officers featured in TLC’s Police Women reality documentary series “Police Women of Cincinnati.”
Bad cops like this one will get good cops killed. |
She also was one of three Cincinnati police officers named, along with the city of Cincinnati, in a federal lawsuit filed last year by a realtor and prospective homebuyer. The men alleged they were illegally detained after a retired Cincinnati officer called 911 to report a break-in.
“Fucking NIGGERS, I fucking hate them!” Valentino raged as she punched the steering wheel of her squad car on April 5, according to an internal affairs report following its investigation, NBC News reported.
Valentino was notably irritated because a crowd of vehicles lined up to pick up students at Western Hills University High School wasn’t moving when she activated her lights and siren. The former Police Women of Cincinnati star grew particularly angered, the report revealed, when a Black “male student walked by and gave Officer Valentino the middle finger.”
According to the report from the Cincinnati Police internal affairs department, Valentino told investigators, “This is a hard job, and I was getting to a point where I was really being affected by it,” noting she’s been on the force for fourteen years. Valentino said she plans to seek treatment to relieve her stress and claimed she doesn’t regularly use racial slurs.
Another dirty cop used racial slurs. |
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval said in a statement he “was appalled to see Officer Valentino display such hateful, angry, and racist language. He added: “Our law enforcement represents all of this city, and Black Cincinnatians deserve to feel safe knowing they will be treated with mutual respect.”
“Officer Valentino has maintained that she does not have any racial biases that have affected her work,” the internal report says. “Officer Valentino believes this was a mental episode.”
Despite her denials, Valentino has been removed from the streets of Cincinnati, relegated to duty behind a desk.
“We hold all of our employees, and especially our sworn police officers, to high standards” said Interim City Manager John Curp in a statement. “The body camera video of Officer Rose Valentino is disturbing. I expect CPD to thoroughly investigate this matter and recommend discipline in strict accordance with the City’s disciplinary procedures.”
Curp asserted that Valentino “will not be on city streets in uniform, wearing a badge, or carrying a firearm.”
The city’s NAACP President Joe Mallory also expressed concern about the officer’s fitness, saying, “To have that agitation, that aggressiveness, that anger, to be triggered like that, it shouldn’t be that easy to be triggered.”
Another Cincinnati Police officer who works with the city's intelligence said racial slurs as well.
A Cincinnati cop was suspended for a week after going on a “verbal tirade” with telemarketers and calling them “NIGGERS” in front of her colleagues—twice in one month.
Officer Kelly Drach, a 23-year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Department, was suspended from her job in May for violating its code of conduct for “failure of good behavior,” according to documents released Monday and shared with VICE News.
The first incident happened on Nov. 17, 2021, at the department’s Real Time Crime Center (RTCC), according to the internal investigation. Drach reportedly made a habit of picking up calls from telemarketers and arguing with them. During this particular call, the report says she called the person on the line a “Sand NIGGERS.”
An RTCC senior crime analyst with family from Iran overheard Drach and confronted her about it.
“What the fuck, Kelly?” the employee asked in shock, according to the internal report. Drach apologized, though the analyst told investigators the apology did not feel as sincere as she’d hoped.
Cincinnati Police should fire these dirty cops now. |
About a week later, Drach used the slur once again in front of her colleagues during another heated argument with a telemarketer.
“I heard a girl in there yelling NIGGERS in there two times. I have to sit right next to [their] door and they should not be saying this word,” an employee wrote in an anonymous letter to human resources. “Someone who uses this word should not work for my city. I hope you do something about this.”
The suspension is the first time Drach faced disciplinary action. According to her prior evaluations, she was considered an exemplary officer.
The Cincinnati Police Department declined to comment on Drach’s actions.
During a hearing in February, Drach didn’t refute that shed used the slur. However, she reportedly said that her actions were the result of an immense amount of stress she’s been facing outside of the workplace.
“The stress emanates from the effects of the pandemic, health issues with her father, the loss of two children, her husband losing his job, and her eldest son who suffers from mental health problems,” the document says.
The department’s decision marked the second time this year a white cop in the department faced disciplinary action for using a racial slur on the job.
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