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Incident: Officer Matthew Luckhurst, a bike-patrol officer, gained notoriety for a 2016 incident in which he placed dog feces on bread and fed it to a homeless man as a “feces sandwich.” Luckhurst bragged about the act to a fellow officer and was given an indefinite suspension in October 2016
. Just a month later, in November 2016, Luckhurst and another officer defecated in the women’s restroom at the downtown bike patrol office and spread a brown, tapioca-like substance on the toilet seat, an act which earned him a second indefinite suspension
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Outcome: Luckhurst was fired by SAPD for the feces sandwich incident, but in 2019 an arbitrator reinstated him, shortening the indefinite suspension to just five days on a technicality (discipline was imposed outside the 180-day window)
. However, the second firing for the restroom incident remained in effect; Luckhurst awaited arbitration on that case
. He ultimately did not return to SAPD. By 2022–2023, Luckhurst found law enforcement work elsewhere – he was briefly hired in Floresville and, as of 2023, employed as an officer in Benavides, Texas
. The chief in Benavides acknowledged the past allegations but noted an arbitrator had once ruled to reinstate Luckhurst
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