The former police officer charged in the death of Ahamed Aubrey shooting, Gregory McMichael, seem to have worked for years inside the Glynn County District Attorney’s office without maintaining proper certification to be a law enforcement officer.
Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson is also in trouble as she knew he wasn’t qualified and had asked officials to overlook the embarrassing mistake. McMichael was a retired chief investigator in the Brunswick DA’s office. He retired in 2019, but personnel files obtained by NewsJax claim that in 2014, McMichael was not properly certified to be a law enforcement officer.
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After failing to maintain annual training hours with Georgia Post, the agency that certifies all law enforcement officers in the state. McMichaels lacked firearms qualification and the use of deadly force courses. His file claimed “he knew he had been behind in his hours, but recently discovered that he had not had arrest powers since January 2006.
An investigator told DA Johnson that McMichael had failed to qualify or have the use of force training in three of the years listed in the report.
Because McMichael didn’t have arrest powers since 2006, the liability of improper actions would fall on the DA’s office. She knew it and tried to sweep it under the rug.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on May 13, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [2] and is used by permission.