A Georgia police officer who responded to a plea from a mother with two kids to ban a man from a public library bathroom has been fired.
Former officer Glen Weaver was axed from the DeKalb County Police Department, according to the Center Square.
The October incident at the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library in Tucker, Georgia, began when a woman with two children complained to a security guard that a man was in the bathroom. The man was transgender Sarah Rose Swinton, who claimed Weaver told him “That’s the women’s restroom and you’re not a woman. That’s obvious.”
Swinton complained, with the complaint going through channels until it reached the top of the DeKalb county Police Department, which sent back down a directive to fire Weaver, even though the department has a policy that says a first infraction requires only a reprimand.
Weaver regrets losing his job, but not what he did.
“There were women and children in the bathroom when he was in there,” Weaver said. “If I was a father, and I had my daughter going to the bathroom, and I’m waiting for her to come out and this dude comes walking into the bathroom – there would have been an issue.”
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