[WayneS]

Florida law allows the governor to suspend a municipal officer from duty for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, habitual drunkenness, incompetence, or permanent inability to perform official duties. The law does not allow a governor to unilaterally remove an elected municipal official from office. I daresay any governor who sets out to suspend a sheriff for "incompetence" had better have 100% of his ducks in a row before doing so.

I will amend my statement to say the governor effectively has no control whatsoever over how a sheriff runs his own department.

The bottom line is, the governor is not responsible for the behavior of this sheriff or his deputies, and the actions being called for by young Mr. Hogg run counter to every principle associated with the right of the People to elect their own political representatives and constitutional officers.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Florida law allows the governor to suspend a municipal officer from duty for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, habitual drunkenness, incompetence, or permanent inability to perform official duties."

That's how incoherent Hogg is. The governor would not have been privy to the inner workings of the Broward sheriff's office unless someone told him, and there is no evidence of that that I'm aware of.

As for the police's response on the day of the shootings, an investigation might reveal "malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty" and so forth, but that would be a reason for the governor to suspend the SHERIFF, not for the GOVERNOR to resign. Hogg is repulsive.