Texas park ranger asking people to comply with social distancing is pushed into lake; suspect arrested

. The LEO assaulted was a Park Ranger.

FWIW, Park Rangers are not hacks, they are deputized law enforcement officers in whatever county they are working in and have full authority of enforcing the law. Each and every one of them are required to go thru their state's law enforcement academy before they can be hired............

FWIW, my dad was a career Detroit Police officer and retired as an Executive Lieutenant. Following retirement, he went on and became the Chief Ranger at a Metro-Park here in S.E. Michigan. Because he was out of law enforcement from the DPOA, he had to again go thru the Detroit Police Academy for recertification before the Metro Authority would hire him......The same academy he taught in back in the early 70's........LOL!

He said during his 13 years as a Chief ranger he had to deal with more problems than he did when he was a Detroit cop. Punks, drunks and drugs were his major concerns.......He was even assaulted by a jogger who was running on the park road rather than the jogging path. The jogger got the bad end of the deal and was ultimately arrested by the Oakland County Sheriff's department.

Given today's climate, many folks here would have excoriated him..............Oh well, this ain't the old FR we grew up with.......

And as a post script, would my dad have enforced the current draconian laws issued by my Michigan governor? No, absolutely not........maybe a slight verbal warning but that is it.

My comments to the morons above were in response to their vigilante actions they called for against the off duty LEO's without thought of complaining to their superiors........

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