Uniformed Lethbridge police officer allegedly caught urinating in public

• Share on Facebook
• Share on Twitter
• Copy Link

LNN spoke with Lybbert late Wednesday.

“(I was) doing some deliveries, so I was sitting in the parking lot waiting for another order to come through and there was the K9 unit and another van police unit sitting, talking to each other in the parking lot,“ he said.

“I see the officer in question get out of his cruiser …. I couldn’t actually see him pull his penis out of his pants but it’s clear you could tell he was peeing.”

Lybbert said he was parked a few stalls away from the vehicles, so he moved closer to confront the officer.

“As I was initially saying ‘are you really taking a pee here?’, he was actually putting his stuff back in his pants,” he added.

Lybbert stated the officer’s reaction took him by surprise, as the officer said something along the lines of, ‘you bet I am’.

“He just sounded so…no remorse, no shame, no anything to it,” he added.

Some social media comments have asked ‘what’s the big deal? When you gotta go, you gotta go’, but Lybbert said the officer in question was not too far from stores and restaurants.

“When I left the scene, he pretty much got into the police station at the same time as me, so if he was already headed there, he couldn’t have held it for two more minutes,” he said.

“But at the same time, he’s an officer (and) he’s supposed to lead by example and is held to a higher standard than the rest of the people, so I kind of figured, hey you need to be following the laws that you’re enforcing.”

Lybbert alleged that when he reported the incident, the Staff Sergeant he spoke with “really had no interest’ in the evidence he presented.

“He just kind of wrote down a couple of things, asked a few question and I had to actually put the phone right in front of his face and say this is the officer I’m talking about. If I wouldn’t have done that, he wouldn’t have had a clue who I was talking about.”

Lybbert added that he “probably wouldn’t” have reported it if it wasn’t for the way the officer allegedly responded to him.

“It was almost like he was challenging me to report him,” he said.

“Once he was getting out of his vehicle and I had my phone up to take his picture he was like, ‘oh you don’t have to record this, tape this, it’s okay’ and I said ‘well I’m reporting this’ and he said ‘I can give you the right number to report this to and I can help you do this,’ and I’m just like ‘why do you want to help me report you for peeing in public’.”

He described the response as ‘arrogant’ and with ‘no remorse’. Lybbert continued, questioning the actions of the officer’s partner.

“His partner that was sitting in the vehicle beside him, I figure at the same time, should have said ‘hey man, c’mon smarten up, you’re in the middle of a parking lot (and) there’s people around, what are you doing’?”