Posted on 02/28/2018 4:23:20 PM PST by Starman417
The photo car says it all about Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel: his self-serving vanity, his shallow and blatant political ambitions, and his insensitive self-absorption visible in the wake of the Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead. Police cars are for patrolling the community, not for the political self-promotion perpetrated by Sheriff Israel in 2015:
A Broward County sheriff's spokeswoman confirmed vehicle wraps featuring a large image of Sheriff Scott Israel, which cost taxpayers $12,500 in total to cover five Ford Focus vehicles, have been removed.It was the same kind of bloviating vanity that led Sheriff Israel to appear on CNN's gun control town hall, in the full knowledge that his deputies showed cowardice by not entering the Parkland high school, where an armed killer would eventually leave 17 dead. He blamed the NRA and browbeat NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch for pointing out that gun ownership is a constitutional right and that it was law enforcement and not the NRA that failed to heed the scores of warning signs about what was to happen:The move came days after a Local 10 News report on the cars in which one of Israel's opponents, retired Broward Sheriff's Office Sgt. Willie Jones, condemned them as a campaign ploy financed by the public[.] ...
Broward Collision was paid $2,500 per car for wrapping the vehicles. Elections office records show that just days before the work had begun Israel accepted $2,000 in campaign contributions tied to Broward Collision, including $1,000 from the business and another $1,000 in the name of a relative of owner Keith Petron.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, a big fan of gun control, sensed an opportunity to pile on and deflect a little attention from his own agency's failings. After survivor and student organizer Emma Gonzalez confronted Loesch with a nonsensical question about making it harder to obtain automatic weapons and Loesch shut it down, Israel stepped in:Unfortunately, Sheriff Israel never understood what he was supposed to do, which was to show the leadership necessary to protect his citizens – and particularly their children – from armed predators. Instead of doing his job or finding out what went wrong at Parkland, he pointed fingers at everyone but himself, taking the time to bask in the light of a CNN town hall, soaking up the free publicity for his ego as the citizens he failed were burying their dead children. He repeatedly dodged rather than accepted his responsibility and culpability for the Parkland massacre:"I understand you're standing up for the NRA and I understand that's what you're supposed to do. But you just told this group of people that you're standing up for them, you're not standing up for them until you say I want less weapons."
"I gave him a gun. I gave him a badge. I gave him the training. If he didn't have the heart to go in, that's not my responsibility." So says Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, a man atop a corrupted institution which failed its citizens in not just one moment, but instance after instance where the laws and policies put in place by the representatives of the people should have been more than sufficient to stop the massacre of February 14th[.] ...Sheriff Israel is a cowardly lion, the coward of the county, the coward of Broward. One only wishes his heart were as big as his ego. He made that remark about lions and sheep two years ago in response to charges of corruption in his office:[W]e already know enough to argue this is not one failure by a school guard who'd earned enough time for retirement, but that it included at least three more Broward deputies, who were hiding behind their cars outside the school when neighboring Coral Springs police arrived. That Israel is so vociferous in his blame for others – for the NRA on CNN's town hall, for the school guard as a lone actor, for others in his organization for failing to handle repeated reports of the shooter's red flags – is an indication of how much he wants these questions to go away.
When Israel was previously accused of corruption, he responded with a paraphrased quote from Game of Thrones: "Lions don't care about the opinions of sheep."
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What a doofus!
Barney Fife (or at least Don Knotts) had more common sense even if bumbling than this failed Broward sheriff.
No he is not.
Barney was an inept naive but heart in the right place, trying to do a good job, kind of guy.
This guy, he is not that kind of a guy. He covers stuff up. Ignored repeated warnings about the thug.
C’mon, Barney Fife was a nice guy, unlike this doofus.
Thats where he belongs but in the back seat with cuffs on
I object to the title. He is more sinister than comical.
Never a fan of folks that diss the character Barney at least if he could not handle something he had a good sheriff to turn to unlike this fraud
When are local muni elections in Brwd ?
That will be the telling factor ?
No... Barney was neurotic as could be, but he did have some decency about him.
Agree. The real Barney Fife in this is the cop who hid in the stairwell pointing his gun at a wall as the killing went down.
much more like Benghazi than Mayberry
One is a TV character.
The other is a criminal, an Islamic terroristophile,
who also helped murder children,
and for years and years did shepard
—and then coverup— their assaults and rapes.
Barney wasn’t an evil, narcissistic, megalomaniacal criminal bastard.
He's still there.
He's still dangerous.
Barney was lovable. This prick is despicable.
“When are local muni elections in Brwd ?
That will be the telling factor ?”
A 2/3 Hillary county? Are you kidding?
What was needed was well armed and well trained TEACHERS AND COACHES!! with semi auto rifles in locked safes plus trigger locked semi auto pistols in reach of teachers. This was an insane slaughter totally avoidable. Trump is exactly right. If this sniveling coward had thought that bullets were coming his way he would still be home watching porno. Never rely on police for your safety— NEVER!!
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