Officers Fired For Flipping Coin To Decide Arrest Of Speeding Woman

Two police officers were terminated in Roswell, Georgia, on Thursday morning after a video surfaced of them using a coin-flip app to determine whether a speeding driver should be arrested or not.

The video, obtained by WXIA-TV, shows officer Courtney Brown asking the driver Sarah Webb if she knew how fast she was going. "The ground is wet and it's been raining and you're going over 80 miles an hour on this type of a road. That's reckless driving," Brown can be heard saying.

Webb apologizes saying she was late for work. Brown then tells fellow officers to check if Webb should be arrested or just given a ticket. She then asks them to wait and opens a coin-flip app on her phone.

Kristee Wilson, the other accused officer, suggests that heads would mean arrest and tails would mean release. Brown then flips the coin in the app.

"This is tails, right?" Wilson asks. "Yeah, so release?" Brown responds.

The officers, however, decided to arrest Webb for going too fast. They handcuffed her and put her in the back of a patrol car.

Roswell community relations manager Julie Brechbill confirmed that both the officers were terminated Thursday morning following an internal investigation, Fox News reported.

"I have much higher expectations of our police officers and I am appalled that any law enforcement officer would trivialize the decision making process of something as important as the arrest of a person," Roswell police chief Rusty Grant said in a statement. “They engaged in conduct on or off duty which adversely affects the efficiency of the department and has a tendency to destroy public respect for the employee or the department."

"This isn't a police procedure, to bring a coin flip — whether it's an app or an actual coin toss — that’s not part of that decision making to decide to take someone's freedom," he said, NBC News reported.

According to police records, Webb was arrested on charges of speeding, reckless driving and driving too fast for conditions. The case against the woman was dropped after the prosecutor watched the video.

"These are people who are supposed to protect us, and instead are treating our freedom and our lives like games," Webb told NBC News in a phone interview. "It’s disgusting. It’s scary to think police officers do stuff like this."

“They're very degrading and rude and mean," Webb told Inside Edition. "Wow, these people put my freedom in the hands of a coin flip."