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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.