Kenneth Qualls claims he had permission from on high to give the toddler a $2,500 public urination ticket in November 2012 after the boy began to pee in front of his house.
BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2014, 7:46 PM
Dillan Warden was just three when Piedmont, Okla., cop Kenneth Qualls gave him a $2,500 citation for public urination. Qualls is suing the city over his firing after the incident.
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Dillan Warden was just three when Piedmont, Okla., cop Kenneth Qualls gave him a $2,500 citation for public urination. Qualls is suing the city over his firing after the incident.
An Oklahoma cop canned for citing a 3-year-old boy for peeing outside is now suing the city of Piedmont for unfairly flushing his career.
Kenneth Qualls claims he had permission from on high to give little Dillan Warden a $2,500 public urination ticket in November 2012 after the tot unzipped in his pants on Ryan Drive.
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The prohibited pee was on private property, the boy’s mother, Ashley Warden, said at the time.
"I said really, he is 3-years-old, and [the officer] said it doesn't matter – it’s public urination,” the boy’s grandmother, Jennifer Warden, told KWTV News 9 at the time.
Ashley Warden is the mother of toddler Dillan, who police officer Kenneth Qualls cited for public urination when the little boy started to pee in his front yard.
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Ashley Warden is the mother of toddler Dillan, who police officer Kenneth Qualls cited for public urination when the little boy started to pee in his front yard.
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But about 10 days after the ill-advised ticket, Qualls was dumped from the department, The Oklahoman reported.
“Of course we did receive a lot of notoriety over that,” City Manager Jim Crosby said at the time of the pee heard ‘round the world.
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Qualls contends the charge wasn’t dropped — only amended to contributing to a delinquency of a minor — and that the city’s police chief knew of the ticket the day after it was issued but did not intervene.
A 3-year-old peeing in his own front yard, pictured, was cited by Piedmont, Okla., cop Kenneth Qualls — who was eventually fired over the matter. Qualls is now suing the city.
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A 3-year-old peeing in his own front yard, pictured, was cited by Piedmont, Okla., cop Kenneth Qualls — who was eventually fired over the matter. Qualls is now suing the city.
During the 2012 pissing match, the officer was even called “stupid” by the city’s mayor, furthering muddying his reputation, the suit claims.
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The city denies the claims, except for the fact that a personnel board did vote to fire Qualls, a veteran officer with 18 years of law enforcement experience.
But little Dillan’s grandmother said at the time of the ticket that the officer was just bothering the family and would frequently wait down the rural street in patrol car doing nothing at all.
"I am disappointed that the officer thinks ... what he needs to do with my tax dollars is sitting and harassing our family," she told the TV station.
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