SOUTHWEST HARBOR, June 29, 2023 - Citizens here and in Machias, from which he was fired in 2011, launched multiple efforts on social media yesterday to seek the removal of police officer Richard Strout, who was hired this week with a trail of accusations and lawsuits for assaulting and groping women during arrests and who sued his former employer for wrongful termination.
Horrified. Simply horrified. What in the HELL is Southwest Harbor thinking with this decision???? Flat out insanity! He needs to go NOW, and going FORWARD, these hires need to be town CITIZEN decisions, as clearly the “decision makers”, are falling woefully short!!!! Furthermore, the town needs to be personally accountable for any damage that he has done and WILL do AGAIN.
As one who has personally been assaulted by an on duty officer in this manner as a teenager, I can tell you, it doesn’t end. Not for the one doing it, nor the one assaulted.
Predators choose these positions and occupations in order to exhibit the control and authority that they so desperately need.
This is outrageous Southwest Harbor, and whomever hired him? Shame on you.
This officer needs to go NOW before it’s YOUR friend or child, or unfortunate VISITOR, falling into his hands. 🤦♀️
So now, with the town of Southwest Harbor’s “directors”, being on notice about this guy, if they DON’T act, the legal ramifications are now damning beyond measure if and when something DOES happen.
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Horrified. Simply horrified. What in the HELL is Southwest Harbor thinking with this decision???? Flat out insanity! He needs to go NOW, and going FORWARD, these hires need to be town CITIZEN decisions, as clearly the “decision makers”, are falling woefully short!!!! Furthermore, the town needs to be personally accountable for any damage that he has done and WILL do AGAIN.
As one who has personally been assaulted by an on duty officer in this manner as a teenager, I can tell you, it doesn’t end. Not for the one doing it, nor the one assaulted.
Predators choose these positions and occupations in order to exhibit the control and authority that they so desperately need.
This is outrageous Southwest Harbor, and whomever hired him? Shame on you.
This officer needs to go NOW before it’s YOUR friend or child, or unfortunate VISITOR, falling into his hands. 🤦♀️
So now, with the town of Southwest Harbor’s “directors”, being on notice about this guy, if they DON’T act, the legal ramifications are now damning beyond measure if and when something DOES happen.