Originally published at: Why would Ron DeSantis help cover up a police scandal? | Boing Boing
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Republican politicians of all stripe are for “law and order” only insofar as they get the votes and donations of LEOs and of those citizens whom they really “serve and protect”. Everyone else, including their marks, can pound sand.
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It’s just a race to the bottom for these guys. Look at the post-debate love for Vivek Ramaswam, bottom-of-the-barrel republicans love the worst guy in the room.
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Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
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Because he’s an asshole?
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If only we had a federal bureau whose job was to investigate things like this.
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There’s nothing any Republican in any state won’t do to hold onto power. The “party of law and order” long ago parted ways with anything remotely like moral behavior. Trump just provided the final push over the cliff.
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“If only we had a federal bureau whose job was to investigate things like this”
You mean the one that’s been dragging it’s feet with the investigation of Ken Paxton?
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… I also can’t help but wonder if DeSantis, after being previously told that it was illegal to do what he was doing with the last official, may have additionally stepped in it here by potentially making himself a contributor to this abuse.
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Love that the photo you used has that wrinkled, obviously plastic backdrop behind the plastic “governor”.
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Wilhoit conservatism: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
This is an excellent case in point.
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that whole article is worth a read - and one wonders if the cops were deliberately slow walking paperwork to make the da office look bad - but this stuck out
Worrell told The Daily Beast that two incidents in particular had called prosecutors’ attention. In one, a deputy made headlines when he decided to repeatedly tase an annoying dirtbiker who’d led cops on a chase—only his decision to fire his taser happened at a Wawa gas station, setting off a fireball that caused injuries and was caught on tape. In the other, two deputies opened fire on a group of four men in a car at a Target parking lot who appeared to have stolen items from the store minutes earlier. One died, and two others were gravely injured.
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Wouldn’t this just lead to the replacement attorney filing those charges? The legal matter doesn’t belong to the person, it belongs to the office.
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one would think.
given that this is fascist florida-da, the desantis appointed DA will simply dismiss the case and look for Black people to prosecute for… reasons.
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