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Tampa police chief Mary O’Connor resigns after video shows her flashing badge during traffic stop
Fox News ^ | 12/4/22 | Greg Norman

Posted on 12/05/2022 12:55:18 PM PST by Impala64ssa

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To: xp38
"How far does this courtesy go? local, statewide, the entire nation, world wide maybe just some countries or places?"

Usually "professional, courtesy" extends mostly other police officers and law-enforcement agents, basically anyone who carries a gun and has arrest power. Spouses get a break because the officers have to pay for it as well..

61 posted on 12/05/2022 4:20:57 PM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Florida? I would think a cop would be relieved to know who he or she was dealing with.


62 posted on 12/05/2022 4:25:29 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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She had been previously fired for striking a fellow officer and kicking his car.

Yep. You're right.

See: The Tampa City Council voted 4-2 to confirm O'Connor, whose appointment by Tampa Mayor Jane Castor met with some opposition.

O'Connor, 51, who retired as assistant chief in 2016, had been fired from the department in 1996 after she was arrested after her future husband was stopped for drunken driving.

O'Connor kicked the windows of a patrol car and punched a deputy. She pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and obstruction. She was fired, then later reinstated.

63 posted on 12/06/2022 7:15:50 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: fr_freak

In Florida, golf carts driven on paved streets need to be road worthy, and follow the rules of the road.


64 posted on 12/06/2022 7:36:11 AM PST by NautiNurse (There was a 2022 mid-term Red Wave...in Florida! )
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To: Fester Chugabrew

There is more history than covered in the story. She was a controversial hire into the position due to her history, which includes charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, obstruction and disorderly intoxication. Appointment as Tampa Police Chief was her “second chance” to make good. She failed in less than a year.


65 posted on 12/06/2022 7:47:57 AM PST by NautiNurse (There was a 2022 mid-term Red Wave...in Florida! )
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