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"No doubt he will be given different treatment at the prosecutorial level than you or I would."

I don't have a major problem with that. He is a cop, and Orlando is not New Orleans. ;^)
And the day any DA gives me the same benefit of doubt they give a uniformed LEO, is the day I want a retainer fee and retirement plan!

I do not have any particular "issues" with FDLE or OPD.
I am not aware of any systemic police corruption, and I lived in Florida for over seventeen years.

BATF "agents" have no normal ordinary public LEO training.
IMHO, they should have no authority to interact in a crowd control operation.
They are inherently incapable of dealing with an innocent civilian public freely exercising their individual rights, and should be restricted to interacting with the public only under direct and specific judicial authority, by way of specific court ordered/approved/investigation/arrest warrants, based on probable cause.

Remember Waco?
The local LEOs could have taken David Koresh peacefully into custody at any time, without any shots fired, or any loss of life.
Never bring a federal BATF machine gun to a family barbecue.

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I don't have a major problem with that. He is a cop, and Orlando is not New Orleans. ;^)
And the day any DA gives me the same benefit of doubt they give a uniformed LEO, is the day I want a retainer fee and retirement plan!

I do not have any particular "issues" with FDLE or OPD.
I am not aware of any systemic police corruption, and I lived in Florida for over seventeen years."

I think there are issues with the new law which need to be clarified with regard to non-identified PCLEO's. Apparently almost all the details of this incident are not public, but at some point a PC officer is going to end up being the victim of an incident in which a citizen was acting in apparent compliance since the LEO was in no way visible to the citizen from his angle of view identifiable as such.

There is a reason agencies such as ATF, federal marshalls, DEA, and so many others have their officers at least wear shirts with 'XYZ" in very big letters, front and back.