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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Lee, Sanford police chief when Trayvon was shot, tries to resign. City rejects his resignation!
City blames "outsiders," not Lee, for the "uproar" about Trayvon.
JHC! This has got to be the stupidest, most racist community ever.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/sanford-florida-police-chief-bill-lee-jr-step-180637247.html
global1
(25,270 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)and it's the same thinking Zimmerman had when he followed and shot Trayvon.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)"Elected officials used this man as a scapegoat to heal our community," she said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. "Our community was never broken."
Mahany, who had supported Lee during the political furor over his departments investigation, called the resignation a "terrible tragedy." She said she blamed civil rights activists whose protests "ruined the reputation and career of a really stellar law enforcement officer."
Lee "is nothing but a scapegoat," Mahany said. "Our police department did nothing wrong."
more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-nn-sanford-chief-resigns-20120423,0,4096682.story
after reading this, she has a short memory or doesn't understand when a community is broken.
Cop's Son Accused Of Beating Man Walks Out Of Jail
SANFORD, Fla.
The son of a Sanford police lieutenant, who is accused of beating up a homeless man, walked out of jail late Monday afternoon. On the same day, former Sanford Police Chief Brian Tooley retired, according to city officials.
Justin Collison, 21, turned himself in to the Seminole County jail at 8:01 Monday morning. He was booked into the jail on aggravated battery charges and posted a $4,000 bond. Collison walked out of the jail with his attorney and brother at around 4:30pm.
Collison could face as much as five years in jail, in a case that has had an impact throughout the Sanford Police Department and across the city itself.
more; http://www.wftv.com/news/news/cops-son-accused-of-beating-man-walks-out-of-jail/nKJgK/
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Out of curiosity, would you appreciate being called a racist for the actions of somebody else who you've never met and had absolutely no power over? I doubt it.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)And if I lived there I would be ashamed and horrified about my community. And yes I would feel it deserved those negative descriptors.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)I for one live in a town that is in very large percentage stupid, racist, and knuckledragging. That doesn't mean that I would find it okay to effectively say that everyone who lives here is responsible for those attitudes.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Bill Lee, the good guy, brought down by all those meddling, liberal outsiders.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)For everyone to try and save face while maintaining status quo. Too bad these rednecks are dumb and made themselves just look worse.
BumRushDaShow
(129,445 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)is black.