Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine was placed on paid administrative leave earlier this week, and has since gone on a tour of electronic media blasting Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, Chief of Staff James Barber and others over the handling of a variety of issues including a power struggle over intelligence-led policing.

Prine said he filed two grievances with the city – one in November, and another in January against the executive director of public safety Rob Lasky, a former FBI agent who took over the spot of overseeing the city’s police and fire departments in October. The January grievance is an email to Stimpson that says, in short, that Lasky went to the police department’s public safety recruiter – and not the police chief – inquiring about a digital recruiting campaign. Lasky, according to Prine’s grievance, told his subordinates that he was “tired of Paul Prine.”