Posted on 06/21/2012 3:38:35 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Saying he's lost the trust of officials, a city manager fired a central Florida police chief who was criticized for his agency's initial investigation of Trayvon Martin's shooting death at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer.
Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte said in a Wednesday statement that he relieved Chief Bill Lee of duty because he "determined the Police Chief needs to have the trust and respect of the elected officials and the confidence of the entire community."
"We need to move forward with a police chief that all the citizens of Sanford can support," Bonaparte said. "I have come to this decision in light of the escalating divisiveness that has taken hold of the city."
The initial lack of an arrest following the death of Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February led to protests across the nation and spurred a debate about race and the laws of self-defense. Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is from Peru.......
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Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte, aka Political Puke of The Year
Lots of luck finding a police chief who can gain the “trust and confidence” of the criminal element amond Sanford’s population.
This has got to be one big bone headed decision.
Is this a “high tech lynching” of a white man?
Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte
I don’t think it’s a bone-headed decision... it’s a decision aimed at radicalizing the criminal justice system and making it serve the needs of the Socialist Agenda, just like the Zimmermann prosecution itself.
In both cases, it’s not stupidity that’s the driving force, it’s pure power politics, with extremely evil motives. And the driving force is coming straight from the WH.
I have a feeling that the non-black citizens of Sanford will make their feelings known in the next election.
I hope you are correct, however we are in central Florida. This is turning into a liberal bastion as of the last few years. One can only hope.
I hope you are correct, however we are in central Florida. This is turning into a liberal bastion as of the last few years. One can only hope.
Since Bonaparte doesn't have the respect and confidence of the entire community either, will he fire himself. Bonaparte has said for months that he would not fire Lee unless civil rights violations were found in how the department handled the Martin investigation. Well -- none were found -- so he lied.
The real truth is that there was an NAACP forum in Sanford last week during which Trayvon Martin's parents appealed to a crowd of about 100 people to press for Lee’s firing and an investigation into the Sanford Police Department. 100 people, out of a city of 55,000, most of whom probably didn't live in Sanford, but were transported in that morning, and the Haitian born city manager bows to their wishes.
The Trayvonistas now run the city of Sanford.
Back when Obama was elected, some said he would set back race relations by decades. My prediction was that he would set it back 100 years. I’m increasingly thinking I was right.
WHY am I not surprised??? I can hazard a guess as to what the skin tone of the new police chief will be.
The Police Chief offered to resign last spring and was turned down
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57419695/resignation-of-zimmerman-case-police-chief-refused/
I guess this Mayor wanted to fire him to look like a big tough “man” (the obama charade) and so the Chief’s benefits could be terminated?
Bill Lee will get a chunk of change from the wrongful termination suit. After all, he was fired by the idiots who refused to accept his resignation.
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