Two Georgia police officers fired for using a coin toss app to decide whether to arrest a speeder

• Two police officers pulled over a woman for speeding in April.
• Bodycam footage shows them using a coin toss app to decide whether or not to arrest the woman.
• The footage shows them assigning "arrest" to "heads' and assigning "release" to "tails."
• An investigation was launched when the footage surfaced, and the two officers have now been fired.
• The police chief said their actions could "destroy public respect" for the department.

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Two Georgia police officers have been fired after bodycam footage showed them using a coin toss app to decide whether or not to arrest a woman.

An investigation was launched after the bodycam footage shows police officers Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson pull over a woman, Sara Webb, for speeding in April.

In the video, obtained by WXIA-TV Channel 11, the officers return to their vehicle to process Webb's license, where they then decide to use a coin toss app to decide if they would arrest her. "A [arrest] – head. R [release] – tail," can be heard, followed by a dinging noise that signified they had used the app to flip the virtual coin.

While the app lands on tails, which they had chosen to represent "release," they still decided to arrest Webb.

Once the video was released, the Roswell police department placed the two officers on leave while all charges were dropped against Webb. She had been arrested for charges of speeding, reckless driving and driving too fast for conditions.

Julie Brechbill, the community relations manager for the city of Roswell, confirmed that the officers had been terminated news to NBC News on Thursday.

Roswell Police Chief Rusty Grant said in the termination letter that the officers had "engaged in conduct on or off duty which adversely affects the efficiency of the department and has a tendency to destroy public respect for the employee or the department."

Webb described the officers as "very degrading and rude and mean" to Inside Edition.

"Wow, these people put my freedom in the hands of a coin flip," she said. "And that's disgusting."

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