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MIAMI - Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo wasn't to be removed from her hospice, a team of Florida law enforcement agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted - but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order, The Miami Herald has learned.
Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding.
For a brief period, local police, who have officers around the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called a showdown.
In the end, the state agents and the Department of Children and Families backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice.
"We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in," said a source with the local police.
"The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene," said an official with the city police who requested anonymity. "When the Sheriff's Department, and our department, told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off."
What don't you understand about a possible confrontation between two law enforcement agencies and a throg of supporters being a bad idea maybe even a deadly equation?
They don't care how many people have to die, if "it saves just one woman..."
Because when law agencies out bluff one another the turf wars have begun.
The locals chose the judge and it's now their turf
What you're seeing is a TURF/GANG WAR between agencies.
Wait. You may not see it.
Those cops should have put in cuffs at that point.
Not the FDLE tucking and running.
It was a poker play and the bad guys won.
But in this game, there is no second chance.
Simply because you don't want something to happen makes the results of not doing anything go away.
There are consequences for inaction.
Terri dies.
FDLE is cold-cocked.
Gov. Bush is not in charge - Judge Greer is.