JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a
former Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant who alleged he was discriminated
against after speaking out about the drowning of a handcuffed Iowa man.
The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports the judge found Wednesday Randy Henry went too far in talking to reporters and posting information on Facebook about the supposed cover-up of 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson’s drowning. The suburban Des Moines man tumbled out of a patrol boat in 2014 while former trooper Anthony Piercy was transporting him for a breath test and slipped out of an improperly secured life vest. Piercy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
Henry alleged he was forced to retire early from the patrol after nearly three decades of service because he was a whistleblower.
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