by Chief of Police, Bud Biddle, Ret.
Chief Lee, of the Sanford Florida Police Department, in the wake of the Zimmerman/Martin rush to judgment matter, formally resigned today, 4/23, and his resignation wasn’t accepted by the City. It is still highly unlikely that Chief Lee will ever work as a Chief again unless Mr. Zimmerman is acquitted of all charges.
America 2012, where a police chief is ostensibly fired [-put on administrative leave-] before any real facts are in evidence. Where the rush to judgment in this racially charged, media driven matter is almost exactly like the Richard Jewell case in 1996; the case regarding the Olympics bombing which occurred in Atlanta, Georgia. That wrongful, rush to judgment by media guru’s and others led to the ruination of a hero cops career. It also cost the taxpayers millions in wasted funds to investigate the wrong man and eventually settle a lawsuit after Jewell was fully exonerated.
Sadly, 2012 American reality exposes a racially charged, highly subjective, media/political bias which provokes/promotes a dangerous, systemic radicalism/racism/prejudice and therefore creates negative, polarizing confrontations throughout our fragile society.
Chief Biddle, CA-r…
If I wanted America to fail —
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/twitter-suspends-account-of-group-that-created-viral-if-i-wanted-america-to-fail-video-without-explanation/
“Chief Lee, of the Sanford Florida Police Department, in the wake of the Zimmerman/Martin rush to judgment matter, formally resigned today, 4/23, and his resignation was accepted by the City. It is highly unlikely that Chief Lee will ever work as a Chief again unless Mr. Zimmerman is acquitted of all charges.”
Well, of course he resigned. His department has been found spectacularly inadequate.
It’s so odd. I mean, here in California, you knife to death some clown who’s crawled through your bedroom window … you get booked. The DA may very well decline to prosecute … but you get booked.
In Florida, apparently, if the homocidee is a black boy in a hoodie in the road … you don’t get booked. This is the beginning and the end of the difficulty.
And now we have the tardy indictment called into questiion, which doesn’t surprise me. I mean, if the local PD is in such a state, it only stands to reason that the local DA might not be able to string two cogent sentences together. I work in the legal profession and see a great deal of that. The 80s were a horror, educationally speaking … and on all fronts.
But I’ll go with the dubious state, before I’ll cast my lot with doofuses with guns.
Bud, I read tonight that the city council rejected his resignation:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7K4YzPp7EJP42o758vRZxZ9SyCw?docId=bc92cf41d8764b66adfafa2f9c5aabd3
Good news if it holds IMO.
Also:
Fox News in Orlando released documents related to trial. Find them here:
http://media.myfoxorlando.com/photogalleries/042312-zimmerman-document-release/indexGallery.htm
Click on each for an enlarged view.