D.C. police lieutenant gets his job back

A D.C. police lieutenant has been brought back to work after six years of conflict with a department that once fired him — for having been previously fired by them.

Tim Haselden had been arranging traffic cones at the police academy and drawing his $100,000-per year salary while he fought to be sent back on the streets. On Christmas Eve 2003, he was fired following a couple of angry confrontations with his wife. The department said he was a wife-beater. Haselden appealed and an administrative law judge held that, in fact, Haselden had tried to defuse the confrontations.