The DeKalb County Police Department fired a veteran officer for telling a transgender library patron to stay out of the women’s restroom, according to internal records obtained by The Center Square media platform. The records also show that the officer, who faced public accusations of “transphobia," got involved that day because a woman with two children complained to a library security guard about a man being in their restroom, according to the security guard’s account to police contained in the investigative file.
Speaking for the first time about the incident to The Center Square, former Officer Glen Weaver was unrepentant.
"There were women and children in the bathroom when he was in there," Weaver said. "If I was a father, and I had my daughter going to the bathroom, and I’m waiting for her to come out and this dude comes walking into the bathroom – there would have been an issue."
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