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Fort Worth officer fired for false time sheets

A Fort Worth police officer who was supposed to be monitoring sex offenders is accused of falsifying time sheets and has been fired.

Abron Jernigan, was a 21-year veteran of the department.

Officials said they put him under surveillance. They said they saw him at home or making personal visits, also doing yard work, when he was supposed to be on the job.

"The failure to monitor the registered sex offenders poses a significant risk to the citizens of Fort Worth," states a disciplinary letter, signed by Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead.

Jernigan's lawyer claimed that Halstead arbitrarily deals with time cheaters.

"What blows me away is this chief's inconsistency in the way he disciplines officers accused of falsifying time sheets," said Jernigan's attorney, Terry Daffron Porter.

Read more in Deanna Boyd’s report.

— Bill Miller

4 officers fired after review of videotaped beatings

You may recall a story that Crime Time reported on recently of the TV video from Philadelphia in which police officers are shown beating three suspects.

On Monday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey announced that four of the officers will be fired and four others disciplined for their roles in the beatings.

Ramey said the disciplinary decisions were made after reviewing frames from enhanced tape of a video shot by a television news helicopter from station WTXF on May 5. The video was shown on many news outlets around the country and drew outrage in the Philadelphia community.

-- Lance Murray