PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia Police lieutenant who was fired for sending a bestiality video to two women he supervised has been reinstated after an arbitrator ruled that his conduct was not egregious enough to merit termination.
Lt. Marc Hayes — who was also accused of telling one of the women she could mislead investigators reviewing the incident — was instead ordered to serve a 50-day suspension.
In his ruling, arbitrator David J. Reilly said that although the video Hayes sent was “very disturbing,” “extremely graphic” and inappropriate, the transmission did not constitute sexual harassment.
