Geniece Mondé comments on Greenville police officer’s speeding incident

Furman University’s Geniece Mondé spoke to a FOX Carolina News reporter about an incident involving an off-duty Greenville police officer who was filmed driving her squad car at dangerously high speeds in a 45-mph zone. Despite video evidence of the event, no accountability measures were enforced according to the FOX Carolina investigation. Mondé, the Herman N. Hipp Associate Professor of Sociology who studies police interactions, told reporter Scottie Hunter that the lack of disciplinary action sends the wrong message to the public.

“It seems that they (Greenville Police Department officials) were willing to take the officer’s account of what took place as truth without further investigation,” Mondé said. “It sets a bad precedent for how investigations are done when the individuals under investigation are law enforcement officers. It says that there’s one set of rules for law enforcement officers who are to serve and protect and a different set of rules for citizens.”