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Could Key West Reach the Ferguson Flashpoint?
Key West The Newspaper ^ | August 22, 2014 | Arnaud and Naja Girard

Posted on 08/24/2014 4:11:34 AM PDT by Elle Bee

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To: PeteB570
Go back a few issues in the newspaper at the link There's a story almost every week. But nothing ever happens

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21 posted on 08/24/2014 4:55:48 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look it up it’s true. Matty would provide little boys to the wealthy patrons then rob and/or blackmail them. NYPD just looked the other way while the genovisse family ran a string of unlicensed clubs in and around the Village,


22 posted on 08/24/2014 5:00:03 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: DaveA37
>"consider if YOU were a police officer and had to put up with the lying, stealing, looting, murdering, etc. “street rat” mentality they deal with everyday."

Sounds like a good reason to repeal drug prohibition laws!

Take away the LE targets and they return to public servants instead of tyrants.

Nazi drug squads kickin in doors in the middle of the night with machineguns and grenades dont make many friends. No wonder the people and the cops are paranoid of each other. And the prohibition cartel rolls on.

23 posted on 08/24/2014 5:01:22 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Elle Bee

How many of those problems have the created for themselves?


24 posted on 08/24/2014 5:02:35 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

As a police office you are lied to just about every hour dealing with people making very bad / really stupid decisions. It gets harder and harder to be objective. If you were an officer and you saw a guy with an open containersbgo right through a stop sign while texting I think we’d agree we’d pull him over too. But what if he ignored you several times and it was obvious he’s a traffic nightmare waiting to happen? You might taze him too. I don’t think I would have wiggled the wires to cause more pain though. Of course I wasn’t there so who knows what really happened...


25 posted on 08/24/2014 5:02:59 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Elle Bee

Oh, I believe you, but they’ve mythologized the Stonewall Riots into the Bunker Hill of the “battle” for gay rights and no amount of facts is going to change that. Boy, that “blackmailing homosexuals” game must’ve gone the way of the rotary phone and the livery stable by now.


26 posted on 08/24/2014 5:07:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Popman
HA. Well Jessie Jackson can be found in his speedo vacationing on SunSet Key

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27 posted on 08/24/2014 5:07:13 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: DaveA37

I tend to look at it like I do Psychologists/therapists etc.

If the people you deal with the most on a daily basis are nuts in one way or another you tend to look at everyone in the world the same way. The same thing goes for police officers.


28 posted on 08/24/2014 5:07:22 AM PDT by The Working Man
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I suppose they made for easy pickings and the NYPD wen along for the ride so with no place to turn a hand full of people gathered and broke a window. To hear it now they were all gay Rosa Parks torching the East Village

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29 posted on 08/24/2014 5:11:03 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: DaveA37
I know there are a number of “cop haters” here on FR but before you all jump on what I have to say, consider if YOU were a police officer and had to put up with the lying, stealing, looting, murdering, etc. “street rat” mentality they deal with everyday.

Then a person shouldn't become a cop in the first pace if he or she doesn't have the personality and psychological disposition to put up with bad people without abusing them and disregarding the Constitution. This is no different than a teacher who can't stand children or a an EMT who can't stand the sight of blood. Pick a different profession.

Yes, there are rogue cops but by in large, the majority are good cops doing a job most other people would not.

The majority of cops are not good cops as long as they are part of the blue wall of silence, which allows the rogue cops to stay on the force. By analogy, the Honor Code at the United State Military Academy simply states that a "cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do." A cadet who fails to blow the whistle on a fellow cadet is subject to the same discipline as the cadet who lies, cheats, or steals. There is an affirmative duty to speak up and the failure to do so will result in discipline, including, suspension or expulsion from the Academy. All cops should be held to the same standard.

30 posted on 08/24/2014 5:26:54 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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You understand this is a kid on a bicycle on an island with a 30mph speed limit and a stop sign on every corner?

The big crime down island is bike theft. They're stolen by the dozens painted black, resold and stolen again. But a 120+ man force on a 2x4 island never stops the cycle (no pun intended). There's an ever growing homeless population that has made bicycle theft a thriving business. There are several yards over in Bahamas village where you can find dozens of black bicycles being 'chopped' and resold. The cops never lift a finger. It's a protected racket

burglary muggings. The tourists never come back for trial so why care? Try to file a police report! The make you stand in line outside of the locked station to fill out a form then wait at least an hour to speak to a detective through a bullet proof glass window - he's inside your out in the sun

a very effective way to dissuade citizens from reporting crime and stilling your crime stats

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31 posted on 08/24/2014 5:27:49 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Labyrinthos
Exactly. Very very well put

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32 posted on 08/24/2014 5:30:25 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

If its as bad as you say Elle call in the FDLE let them sort out what is going on and let the chips fall where they may.
The FDLE,Fla. Dept. of Law Enforcement, is one of the finest law enforcement agencies in the state(perhaps anywhere) and was created for situations exactly like this one so let them handle this.


33 posted on 08/24/2014 5:30:38 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepuplic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: Elle Bee

Naja Girard d’Albissin

Addresses
1214 Newton St
Key West, FL 33040-7024

Phone number
305-296-1816

...needs to be called and asked why she is stoking the divisional flames and attempting to get a race war started - instead of writing about true atrocities in the Middle East, especially when it comes to ISIS...


34 posted on 08/24/2014 5:31:20 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Labyrinthos
And least we forget a corrupt judiciary and state attorney's office that support the Blue Wall

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35 posted on 08/24/2014 5:32:38 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

LOL>

Key Worst is filled with a bunch of libtards. Let ‘em see what happens when they decide not to have law breakers.

See, folks? When nothing is wrong, when there are no absolutes, you have chaos.

Enjoy the world you built, Key Worst.


36 posted on 08/24/2014 5:34:46 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: rodguy911; Elle Bee

I agree. Indeed, the only time the KW cops seem to behave is during large events when the Florida State Police are on joint patrol with the locals.


37 posted on 08/24/2014 5:35:13 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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Maybe because she writs for a small town newspaper that hasn't asked her to cover international affairs????

just guessing

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38 posted on 08/24/2014 5:35:27 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

or maybe she trying to jump on the wagon and get her name out there by writing a story of a simple arrest that goes on in any state of city everyday???? That story had no substance - no point...


39 posted on 08/24/2014 5:37:50 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: DaveA37

When you treat the average citizen like “..the lying, stealing, looting, murdering, etc. “street rat” ..” don’t be surprised if public opinion of LEO’s falls.

Don’t try and excuse it. If you can’t take it quite - don’t take it out on citizens.


40 posted on 08/24/2014 5:40:09 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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