A few weeks ago a story came out of the San Antonio Police Department that officer Matt Luckhurst had given a sandwich, filled with human feces, to a homeless man as a joke. Luckhurst was investigated and fired. He has since tried to argue, through his lawyer, that he was only “joking” about giving a homeless man a sandwich with excrement in it. What was not being reported before, but is now clear, is that the San Antonio Police Department didn’t fire Mr. Luckhurst because of his scatalogical humor.
Newly released internal affairs documents from SAPD say Luckhurst admitted to it when he was questioned about it by another officer.
“That’s when Matt Luckhurst peered around the corner from the front desk area and looked directly at me with a sorrow look on his face,” wrote the officer in his report. “‘It was me. I did it,’” said Luckhurst in the report.
“He went on with a short speech about how sorry he was and that he realized how bad the situation was,” the officer wrote. “His apology to us seemed heartfelt, but [the incident] was still completely uncalled for.”
A SAPD spokesman has said that police officers can appeal a firing in an arbitration hearing where both sides will explain themselves.