ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) – Two Alexandria police officers face termination after an internal review and subsequent Louisiana State Police investigation found their conduct in three separate incidents last month did not meet department standards, officials said Friday.

The officers were given pre-termination letters this week following incidents that occurred within a 24-hour span on July 27, 2025, according to Chief of Police Chad Gremillion. He said the behavior appeared isolated but was serious enough to violate departmental policy, infringe on civil rights and potentially constitute criminal conduct.

“After reviewing the three incidents that I believed violated departmental policy, infringed on the civil rights of individuals, and potentially constituted criminal conduct, I referred the matter to the LSP Criminal Investigations Division,” Gremillion said. “We must be accountable for our actions, and we cannot accept anything but the highest standards of public service.”

The department’s internal reporting system flagged the incidents for review on July 29, two days after they occurred using “internal reporting systems.” On July 30, the officers were placed on administrative leave, and the mayor and senior command staff were briefed.

City officials said the mayor personally reviewed body camera and other video footage before concurring with the decision to move forward with termination.

Description of Events

1. Event One: Two officers arrive at a local motel July 27, 2025, on a disturbance call due to a “resident” playing music too loud and “disrupting others’ peace” in the motel. Officers make contact with the resident. He disagrees with them and, with minimal pushback, lawfully complies with all requests. The officers appear to manufacture the scenario in which they claim he batters one of them as he exits the room. Video evidence shown to the public does not support this claim. By reasonable inspection of the video evidence, the resident is compliant, minimally exhibiting frustration, carefully trying to exit through a doorway in which the officer apparently is standing to force a “touching,” and neither batters nor attempts to harm the officers. The officers threw away the residents’ important personal property needlessly, including his phone and DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty).
2. Event Two: The officers respond to a call at a facility dealing with mental health patients in which, in the light most favorable to officers, the two officers may have reasonably believed the facility was rioting or a unit was uncontrollable. Upon entering the unit, the situation was either deescalated or had been related initially to be more serious than was apparent on entry and investigation of the unit. Nonetheless, one of the two officers “dry stunned” a non-compliant patient with a taser who did not pose a threat justifying the deployed use of non-lethal force. The officers threw her through a doorway to the ground. In the circumstances the victim could have been scared or, more likely, minimally aware of what was happening. The force deployed was not required under the circumstances and was not made in good faith. The overall approach in the unit by the officers was needlessly escalatory under the circumstances.
3. Event Three: The officers responded to a call of a banned person refusing to leave a bar. The two officers seem to bait the banned individual into an escalated event from a deescalated situation. The man complied with officer commands at all When the man wanted to “see the K-9 unit,” officers incited rather than diminished curiosity with the K-9, ultimately taking the man to the ground and deploying unnecessary force.

Both officers, who are white, were involved with victims identified as two Black men and one white man. Officials said no racial slurs were used and no evidence of hate crimes was found.

The officers’ names were not released. They remain entitled to due process, including notice, hearings and appeal rights, before termination is finalized.

The city and police department have reached out to the individuals involved. No serious injuries were reported, though officials acknowledged the tactics and behavior used were “intolerable.”

Mayor Jacques Roy’s administration emphasized its zero-tolerance policy for unconstitutional policing while highlighting recent declines in violent and property crime since 2023.

Between January 2022 and December 2024, vehicle burglaries dropped 11 percent, aggravated burglaries 50 percent, and overall property crime 12 percent. Homicides fell by more than half, and gun violence dropped 46 percent through mid-2025.

City leaders said those trends demonstrate reforms and new policies are working, but misconduct threatens public trust.

“Inappropriate policing becomes a danger to us all,” officials said in a statement. “Unconstitutional policing erodes trust and damages community relationships. The only way forward is accountability.”

The Louisiana State Police investigation remains ongoing, and findings will be forwarded to prosecutors for review.