[mhking]

And please keep FulCo Sheriff Myron Freeman as far as is humanly possible from a microphone. His command of the English language makes Chief Moose sound like a Rhodes Scholar.

 

Double-barrelled Mega-PING! to both lists! If you want on, FReepmail me!

[NonValueAdded]

Revised headline: Senior judge has keen sense of the bleedin' obvious.

[NonValueAdded]

I gotta say it: they should put Rambo in charge!

[L98Fiero]

"Senior Superior Court Judge Philip Etheridge said it was "absolutely ludicrous" that the sheriff's office would allow an armed deputy to be alone in a holding cell with a prisoner known to be a high security risk."

I said something to this effect yesterday in a thread and got flamed by about 25 people.

[kdot]

Rambo said deputies transporting prisoners should go in pairs and be armed only with Tasers, mace and batons, not loaded firearms.

Why would you increase the number of deputies but denude them of their power? I don't get it. Increase the number, fully arm them and increase their ability to take down a prisoner.

[BIGZ]

Atlanta is run like Third World country.

[Peach]

Barnes had requested additional security for Nichols' trial on rape and other charges after deputies found two crude weapons in the defendant's socks earlier in the week. Sheriff Myron Freeman on Saturday could not say whether Hall was aware of the increased threat or whether extra precautions had been put into place.

Etheridge said the deaths were "absolutely preventable."

Finally, someone is speaking sense and willing to tell it like it is. These deaths WERE preventable and should never happened. Which makes it all the more tragic.

[af_vet_1981]

Finally a judge speaking the truth to power in Atlanta ...

[ShandaLear]

I blame feminism and political correctness for throwing common sense out the window.

[spodefly]

Finally, some sanity in the discussion.

[SE Mom]

Neil Boortz must be going wild- he's always talking about the way Atlanta is run.

If I heard Freeman say ONE more time how he'd only been on the job a couple of months I thought I'd have to buy a new tv. These men are grown-ups, it's time the citizens of Atlanta hold them to account.

[G.Mason]

Although there will be a hugh and cry for money to be thrown at this obvious "problem", much like the NEA and their enablers bellow for more "blood" fom the tax payers, this is not a money problem.

Plain and simple rules of conduct, outlining the procedures that shall be adhered to by all persons, as pertaining to the transportation and handling of prisoners, needs to be developed and instituted.

No police officer, anywhere in this country arrests a simple, non-violent, drunken driver without handcuffing him/her, behind their back, prior to transporting.

[JSloth]

...faulty security.

GEE, ya think? (directed at the article, not the poster)

[thathamiltonwoman]

current policy guidelines allow a single deputy to escort as many as four prisoners at a time, and allows a solitary deputy to enter a holding cell with a prisoner. >

Now that's just crazy right there.

[Brian Allen]

There are all kinds of reasons that Police Men were once called that -- and all weighed two-hundred pounds and were six-feet tall.

And this assinine bloody atrocity illustrates only one of them.

[GladesGuru]

Thank the PC crowd for forcing the hiring of women for jobs where they are simply physically unfit.

Be the job description basic training (where most females can't throw a grenade far enough to avoid the blast/fragments of the grenade they just attempted to throw) to hiring a female to guard a male far superior to her in size and strength, Femi-Nazi, PC whackos, and assorted other varieties of socialists are the real reason for our present precarious position.

[gleneagle]

The "political correctness" of women's lib and affirmative action can kill. In this incident it took 4 lives. The MSM will not discuss this.

[pageonetoo]

Who do want to show up as your backup, when confronted with a car full of beefy boys on crack, and desire to do harm, Jim or Brigette?

Who would you want stepping off after you in the LZ, Bob or Cathy?

Call me sexist, but there are jobs for men, that just don't fit a woman!

Magnum Side-Zip Stealth Ladies

[The Great RJ]

I question whether a single female deputy would have been the best choice to guard this predator.

[Gritty]

Political Correctness will ultimately be the death of this country. Four victims in Atlanta have already found out how deadly it can be on a personal level.