2 Georgia Officers in Hot Water for Using Coin-Flip App
SAVIDGE: Two police officers in Georgia are in hot water today. They used a coin-flip app after pulling over a speeding driver. The incident was captured on one of the officer's body cams. Just take a look and listen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: A heads or tails.</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: OK.</s>UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: This is tails, right?</s>SAVIDGE: Not the usual crime-fighting tool you might expect. CNN's Kaylee Hartung is joining me now here on the set. Kaylee, what was going on here? What was happening?</s>KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's what the police chief in Roswell, Georgia, is trying to figure out. He sees this behavior as completely inappropriate. In fact, saying he finds it appalling that any law enforcement would trivialize the decision-making process of something as important as the arrest of a person. What we know is that this woman driver, Sara Webb, was late to work one morning in April. She was speeding down a wet road in bad conditions. She was pulled over by an officer, berated at that time as well. When this officer went back to her vehicle, called for backup, this was the solution in the moment that the two decided on. Used a coin-flip app to decide if they would arrest this woman or release her. What's interesting, when you really pay attention to the details of this exchange is they determined tails to mean they would release the driver. Yet, when the coin flip landed on release, on tails, they still chose to arrest her and charged her for reckless driving, too fast for conditions and speeding. This woman, Sara Webb, the driver, didn't know this conversation was taking place. She was arrested, very visibly upset when you see her in the back of the patrol car. But when prosecutors saw this body cam footage that was uncovered, all charges against her were dismissed. The Roswell Police now conducting an internal investigation, Martin, and these two officers are on administrative leave.</s>SAVIDGE: We always wondered how justice may be meted out on the side of the road. This doesn't help on the part of some officers. All right, Kaylee Hartung, thanks very much. The backlash over the use of a racial slur by the founder of Papa John's Pizza, well, the fallout is continuing. The pizza chain now removing John Schnatter's face from advertising materials. He has appeared on Papa John's Pizza boxes, TV ads, and he's been in the store's interior, at least his image for years. Now the fallout for the company is growing. Several professional sports teams are cutting ties with the pizza chain. He's speaking out now, offering an apology, and his explanation about what happened. Here's what he says.</s>JOHN SCHNATTER, FOUNDER, PAPA JOHNS PIZZA: It wasn't a slur. It was a strategy and media planning and training, and I repeated something that somebody else said, and said we're not going to say that. We don't use that kind of language, vocabulary. And, sure, it got taken out of context and, sure it got twisted, but that doesn't matter. I hurt people's feelings. That's what matters here. And for that, I'm sorry. And I'm disappointed in myself that something like that could happen.</s>SAVIDGE: Schnatter resigned his position as chairman of the company's board after it became public that he used the slur in the conference call. Next, a woman missing for a week after her car plunged over a cliff has been found alive. Where rescuers found her, coming up.