SHIELDS OF SHAME • GEORGIA OFFICER ACCOUNTABILITY
Alicia N. Parkes: An on-duty confrontation, termination and POST revocation
Two officer interviews expose conflicting accounts of physical contact and an admitted failure to report the encounter. A dated certification record shows what happened to Parkes’s employment and police credential afterward.
College Park Police Department • Interviews: August 18, 2009 • Page updated: October 9, 2026
College Park termination
August 25, 2009
Certification revoked
April 22, 2012
Throat contact, who directed the visitor to leave, and a reported shooting threat
A personal encounter while working
Alicia N. Parkes said she had finished a call and stopped at fellow College Park officer Wesley White’s apartment to use the restroom and deliver curtains. She was working, in uniform, and had recently dated White. She also acknowledged walking his dog. What began as a personal stop became an encounter involving another visitor, physical contact and police equipment.
The interviews were conducted on August 18, 2009, by Lieutenant Lance Patterson and Captain Linda Burke of the College Park Police Department. Their references to the previous night place the reported encounter on August 17. The private visitor is not named or profiled in this article.
Parkes said she intervened because White had told her the visitor would not leave. She described her purpose as de-escalation. According to Parkes, the visitor cursed at her and approached with raised fists, prompting her to grab an arm and push the visitor away. She said White then grabbed her and moved her.
White’s account supported some of that description but introduced a critical difference. He denied that Parkes had assaulted the visitor, then acknowledged a physical altercation and described Parkes grabbing the visitor by the throat. That is White’s description of what he observed, rather than a court finding.
This distinction is central to the story: the officers acknowledged an encounter with physical contact, but they did not give identical accounts of the contact, its justification or the surrounding decisions.
SHIELDS OF SHAME • INTERVIEW ARCHIVE
Watch: Alicia Parkes’s internal affairs interview
▶ OPEN ALICIA PARKES INTERVIEW ↗
Interview dated August 18, 2009. The excerpts below follow the supplied Alicia Parkes transcript. The recording allows readers to hear her explanations and denials in context.
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The reporting failures Parkes acknowledged
The clearest admissions concern what Parkes did after the encounter. Asked why she had not made an arrest, completed a use-of-force report or contacted a supervisor, she said she did not know to complete the force report. The interviewers then described the department’s expectations and asked whether she had done any of those things. She answered that she had not.
“Yes, but unfortunately, I have not read the entire thing”
Alicia Parkes, responding to whether she had been given the department’s SOP, August 18, 2009; transcript around 06:50.
Parkes attributed the omissions to ignorance. She later said contacting a supervisor had occurred to her but she did not follow through. She had spoken with White and a personal friend instead. When asked about calling for backup, she said it had not come to mind.
These admissions give the public a concrete accountability issue to examine: an officer used physical force during an encounter while working, yet the incident did not receive the immediate supervisory review described by her interviewers. The written policy itself is not reproduced here, so the interviewers’ explanation is identified as their explanation rather than quoted as a verified policy provision.
The questioning about making an arrest does not independently establish that an arrest would have been legally required. The important documented point is that Parkes agreed she had not taken the steps the supervisors described.
Throat contact, pepper spray and the disputed threat
Parkes initially denied putting her hands around the visitor’s throat. She acknowledged pushing the visitor and said the encounter happened quickly. Later, when the interviewer asked whether the push could have caught the throat area, she acknowledged that possibility while continuing to deny choking the visitor.
At approximately 15:35 in her transcript, the interviewer revisited the mechanics: Parkes had held an arm with one hand and pushed with the other. Parkes described the grab and push as instinctive and said she released both hands. That explanation should be read alongside White’s account of a throat grab.
Parkes also said the visitor threatened to pepper spray her and that she reached for her own spray. She said White took her hand and told her to calm down. She denied removing the spray or drawing a gun. Asked whether she had put a hand on her gun, she suggested she might have done so instinctively and described a habitual movement.
The interviewers asked whether she had threatened to shoot the visitor. Parkes emphatically denied saying it. A question put to an officer is evidence of what investigators were examining, not proof that the alleged words were spoken. The record supports reporting the allegation and the denial together, without turning either into an established criminal finding.
SHIELDS OF SHAME • INTERVIEW ARCHIVE
Watch: Wesley White’s interview
▶ OPEN WESLEY WHITE INTERVIEW ↗
The supplied transcript places White’s interview at the start of the recording and marks it ending at approximately 04:33. This player opens that segment. His statement is a witness account and should be compared with Parkes’s interview.
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Where the accounts differ
White said Parkes had been at the apartment about 15 minutes before the other visitor arrived. He did not give a definite total duration. Parkes initially estimated approximately 20 minutes for the whole encounter. The interviewers later told her she had been there for more than 50 minutes. She expressed surprise and said she had believed it was 15 or 20 minutes. The underlying dispatch or activity log is not included here, so the 50-minute figure remains attributed to the supervisors.
There is also a dispute over who wanted the visitor to leave. In Parkes’s interview, a supervisor told her White had said he never asked the visitor to leave. Parkes called that a lie and insisted he had repeatedly asked. The supplied opening segment of White’s own interview describes Parkes telling the visitor to leave, but it does not contain the full statement the supervisor attributed to him. Readers should not mistake the supervisor’s summary for a verbatim passage from that segment.
“So, yes, of course, emotions were involved”
Alicia Parkes, August 18, 2009; transcript around 14:24.
Parkes acknowledged that emotions had played a role and said she should have left. The supervisors pressed her on why she had intervened in someone else’s apartment while working rather than leaving the personal dispute. Their questions focus attention on the boundary between an officer’s personal relationships and the authority carried by the uniform.
The documented employment and certification timeline
Parkes’s individual officer profile was generated June 26, 2023. It identifies her as Alicia N Parkes, officer key O139980, and lists basic law-enforcement certification PBLE070935S as revoked. The profile supplies the following employment entries and sanction:
| Date | Record | What it establishes |
|---|---|---|
| December 27, 2006 to August 8, 2008 | POST employment history | Clayton County Police Department employment; voluntary resignation. |
| February 16 to August 25, 2009 | POST employment history | College Park Police Department employment; terminated. |
| August 17, 2009 | Interview references to the previous night | Reported encounter date, inferred from the dated August 18 interviews. |
| August 18, 2009 | Interview transcripts | Patterson and Burke question Parkes and White at College Park. |
| January 11, 2010 to March 2, 2012 | POST employment history | Clayton County Sheriff’s Office employment; voluntary resignation. |
| April 22, 2012 | POST sanctions entry | Final action: REVOKE CERTIFICATION. |
| June 26, 2023 | Profile generation date | Historical snapshot used for the employment and certification entries above. |
The record shows that the 2009 termination and 2012 revocation occurred on different dates, with subsequent sheriff’s-office employment in between. The profile does not state the factual grounds for the revocation. Without the final order or full POST investigative file, this page does not attribute that later sanction exclusively to the 2009 encounter.
The general profile status reads “POST Review Required,” while the specific basic certification is marked “Revoked.” Those are separate fields. Neither should be substituted for the other, and this historical profile is not a live check of current employment.
What termination and POST revocation mean
Termination concerns an agency’s employment decision. POST revocation concerns the officer’s certification. A criminal charge or conviction belongs to a separate process. Keeping those outcomes distinct is essential when following an officer across multiple agencies.
Georgia POST explains its certification investigations and sanctions on its official website. Parkes’s dated profile documents a revocation, but neither that entry nor the interview admissions supplies a criminal court disposition.
The interviews show why supervisory reporting matters. It creates a route for reviewing force, preserving the officer’s account and examining a personal conflict before it becomes an undocumented encounter. They also raise a training question: what does an agency do when an officer says she received the SOP but had not read it in full?
The officials conducting the interviews
Lieutenant Lance Patterson and Captain Linda Burke identify themselves as College Park Police Department officials in the recordings. They question the officers about their accounts, reporting decisions, equipment and time away from patrol. Their inclusion here documents their role as interviewers; it does not allege misconduct by either official.
Open the evidence: two free sample records
Read the records alongside the interviews. These two PDF files are available as free samples. Parkes’s profile provides dated employment and certification entries; the Wesley White record is supplied for readers to inspect directly. No unverified disciplinary or current-status claim about White is made here.
Alicia N. Parkes profile
The reviewed profile was generated June 26, 2023. The employment and sanction entries are summarized above.
Wesley White record
The companion PDF supplied for this case. Inspect its own dates and entries before describing his status.
View the supplied Alicia Parkes case images
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OCTOBER 9, 2026 · RECORDS STATUS
What remains verified
The original Georgia POST profile dated June 26, 2023 documents College Park termination on August 25, 2009 and certification revocation on April 22, 2012. Those are separate administrative actions. The 2009 interviews document disputed descriptions of the encounter and Parkes’s admissions about reporting; the provided profile does not identify the factual basis for the 2012 revocation.
No newer individual POST profile, revocation order, criminal judgment or appeal decision was independently verified for this update. The historical record should not be presented as a live certification lookup or as proof of criminal guilt.
What the records establish and what remains unresolved
Established in the dated profile: College Park termination on August 25, 2009; later Clayton County Sheriff’s Office employment ending in voluntary resignation; certification revocation on April 22, 2012.
Established as statements in the interviews: Parkes acknowledged physical contact, reaching for pepper spray, reporting omissions and emotional involvement. White described a throat grab. Parkes denied choking, drawing a weapon and making a shooting threat.
Records needed to resolve the remaining questions: the complete College Park internal affairs findings and termination notice; the applicable written force and notification policies; dispatch or activity logs documenting the length of the visit; the POST final order explaining the grounds for revocation; and any criminal charging decision or court disposition.
The supplied materials do not establish a criminal conviction or a final disciplinary outcome for White. This page does not treat the absence of those documents as proof that no criminal or administrative action occurred.
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Sources and editorial method
This account uses the two supplied interview transcripts, the corresponding uploaded recordings, and the historical Alicia N Parkes individual officer profile generated June 26, 2023. The Wesley White PDF and the four supplied images are linked or displayed as companion materials. Georgia POST’s official investigations page supplies general certification context.
Interview quotations follow the transcripts supplied to Shields of Shame. Approximate time references help readers locate the discussed passages. A statement’s accurate transcription does not independently establish that the speaker’s account is true. The article distinguishes admissions, disputed accounts, documented employment actions and certification sanctions.
The private civilian is not named or profiled in the article. The source recordings are supplied interview media and may include identifying speech. The Wesley player opens his initial interview segment; a media time range is not a redaction of the underlying file.
A separate 2023-generated copy of Parkes’s profile was available for review. The profile’s printed page label is 1/3, while that reviewed copy contains one page. No unseen investigative findings or additional profile pages are summarized.