Bobby Ray Phillips, 75, was given a $257 ticket for disorderly conduct

Phillips said he is loud because of hearing difficulties and asked officer to write questions down

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Belton police officer Thaddeus Shockley was terminated from the Belton Police Department following a confrontation with a 75-year-old man over an open bathroom door, according to Belton Mayor Wendell Page.

Shockley was terminated Aug. 23 for violating agency policy, a day after the Independent-Mail reported on the Aug. 20 incident with Bobby Ray Phillips at the Standpipe Family Restaurant, authorities said.

"We want our citizens treated well, treated fair and we won't tolerate anything less," Page said.

The termination record signed by Belton Police Chief Robert Young and provided by the state's Criminal Justice Academy does not give details about the policy that was violated.

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A small part of the Aug. 20 confrontation was captured on video by a diner, who stopped recording after after Shockley asked the woman taking the video if he needed to take her phone from her.

Page said he has spoken with Police Chief Robert Young, who confirmed that Shockley was terminated.

Young is in training this week and did not respond to requests for comment. Shockley does not have a listed phone number and there was no answer at his most recent listed address.

On Aug. 20, Shockley walked into Standpipe Family Restaurant for lunch and went to the bathroom. When he left the bathroom, Phillips, a restaurant regular, yelled at the officer to shut the door, according to Shockley's written account.

Shockley wrote that he asked Phillips for identification.

Phillips declined and also did not get up to go outside with the officer, as the officer requested, according to Shockley's report.

Phillips told the Independent Mail last week that he was loud, as he always is, due to hearing difficulties. He has an artificial leg and said it is difficult to stand and he wanted to finish his meal.

A small portion of the encounter was filmed by restaurant patron Cindy Young, who shared her video with the Independent Mail.

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Shockley can be seen in the video interacting with Phillips, using the word “handcuff” before turning to Young, saying “ma’am, do I need to take that phone from you?” Young said no and shut off her phone. Young said she was intimidated by the officer and didn’t want to be arrested or have her phone seized.

The restaurant's manager declined to put Phillips on trespass notice and declined to talk about the incident to the Independent Mail.

Phillips was given a ticket for $257 for disorderly conduct.

Phillips said, in text messages Thursday, that he has not heard from the police department and does not know whether his public disorderly ticket has been dismissed.

Shockley had been with the Belton Police Department since January 2013, before that he spent three years with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office and three years with the Liberty Police Department.