911 operator who hung up on calls gets sentenced to ten big ones in jail

"I don't got time for this garbage"

Harris County, Texas -- She hung up on emergency calls "thousands" fo times. Maybe people died because of her stone cold insolence to people in crisis, maybe they didn't, but Crenshanda Williams, the Harris County 911 operator, finally got what was coming to her: a jail sentence. 

Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday after "systematically" hanging up on calls sent by residents in crisis, KTRK reported.

Yes, Williams will be spending the next ten years days in the slammer and will have to spend the following 18 months on probation. It could have been worse--the judge could have given her a full two weeks, but since the prosecution couldn't prove if anyone died from her hang ups, they gave her a break.

Williams was said to have had a high number of "short calls" which were 20 seconds or less. Prosecutors found she had hung up on "thousands" of calls.

An emergency call by Jim Moten told KTRK that he called in 2016 after observing two vehicles speeding on a highway where people had recently been killed in speeding accidents. He believed his call was dropped after a few seconds.

Moten said that before he could finish his explanation of the emergency, Williams reportedly said, "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real."

She also hung up on a caller reporting a violent robbery, according to The Chronicle. 

Williams reportedly spent about 18 months at the Houston Emergency Center [mis]handling 911 calls but got caught and in August 2016 was fired.

"The citizens of Harris County rely on 911 operators to dispatch help in their time of need," said Assistant District Attorney Lauren Reeder in a statement. "When a public servant betrays the community's trust and breaks the law, we have a responsibility to hold them criminally accountable."

Remember, Williams will be spending ten entire days locked up in a cage, with no decent food, no justice, no peas. 

Ten. Entire. Days.

Her lawyer, Franklin Bynum, argued that Williams "was going through a hard time in her life" when she hung up on the "thousands" of calls over the year, and said "punishing her doesn't do anything to fix the problems that still exist at the emergency center."

Whatever her "problems" are, Bynum didn't say. But obviously, they have more to do with her internal problems than her external ones.

Williams was taken away in imaginary chains and will be sent to prison where hopefully she will learn to properly let loose and yammer.


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