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Florida cop suspended after stopping runaway car with kids inside but no driver
Sun Sentinel via Yaoo ^ | October 28, 2023 | Susannah Bryan

Posted on 10/28/2023 9:18:36 AM PDT by grundle

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Some might call Karl Hirsch a hero.

A Fort Lauderdale cop, Hirsch used his patrol cruiser to help stop a moving car that had two little girls in the backseat and no driver. But instead of praise, Hirsch got a 20-hour unpaid suspension.

The Jan. 26 incident caused no injuries, but triggered an Internal Affairs investigation ordered by Police Chief Patrick Lynn. On May 24, Internal Affairs investigators notified Hirsch he was being investigated for potentially violating department policy by “carelessly, negligently or intentionally causing waste, loss or damage to any city property.”

In the process of stopping the runaway car, Hirsch caused nearly $10,000 in damage to his own squad car.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; florida; footshooting; fortlauderdale; internalaffairs; misleadingheadline; nogooddeed; patricklynn; rondesantis; susannahbryan
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To: grundle

maybe he should have left them in the car like the cops in the story yesterday

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4192714/posts

not


21 posted on 10/28/2023 9:42:13 AM PDT by algore
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To: grundle

Internal Affairs investigators need to be investigated for moronic behavior. Let’s try a 1st grade reading test for a start.


22 posted on 10/28/2023 9:42:25 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: grundle

Internal Affairs investigators need to be investigated for moronic behavior. Let’s try a 1st grade reading test for a start.


23 posted on 10/28/2023 9:43:06 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: livius; All

People please read the story! Not the fake headline.

The headline is a lie. Someone else stopped the car and then this deputy came along an rear ended it. His actions could have actually hurt the children. This was also his 3rd preventable accident within the year.


24 posted on 10/28/2023 9:47:29 AM PDT by Revel
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To: kenmcg

Just another Cheap Shot at the Best Gov in the country by a Trump cultist .
Gov are now supposed to micromanage local police dept matters.


25 posted on 10/28/2023 9:48:03 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: dontBSme

RE: They obviously need a new “Chief”

From the pool of chief applicants....

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=577472328&q=mel+brooks+as+indian&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi29ZqrmZmCAxXxhYkEHX9rDqwQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=1196&bih=548&dpr=1.33


26 posted on 10/28/2023 9:50:33 AM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: Retain Mike

It seems that it is freeper’s who need to learn to read. It is obvious that not one of them... Including you, actually read the story. The sensationalist headline turns reality on its head.

Incompetent deputy got what he deserved.


27 posted on 10/28/2023 9:50:51 AM PDT by Revel
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To: grundle

I think the officer might soon be the new chief (at least in a normal world).


28 posted on 10/28/2023 9:51:50 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: frank ballenger
Deputy Got what he Deserved
Read the story.
29 posted on 10/28/2023 9:52:51 AM PDT by Revel
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To: MeganC
Bring back armed citizens, sheriff’s posses, and vigilante committees. Crime will come to an end PDQ.

Don't forget to combine "defunding the police" with appropriate punishments:

Murder: hanging.
Rape: hanging.
Grand Theft Auto (modern horse thievery): hanging.
Etc.

30 posted on 10/28/2023 9:52:56 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Revel
Hirsch also claimed that he tried to block the car from behind in order to prevent the driver from fleeing the scene after the car was stopped by the other deputy.

Wait a minute … wasn’t the other police vehicle used to physically stop the moving car because that car HAD NO DRIVER?

This guy Hirsch sounds like a moron (at best).

31 posted on 10/28/2023 9:56:01 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Spok
Many, if not most, mature organizations die due to bureaucratic sclerotization.

Nothing can get done and even trying costs too damn much (think light rail or replacing the Twin Towers).

The bureaucracy becomes an organism that lives only to protect itself (think Deep State).

32 posted on 10/28/2023 9:59:11 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Our time is short, not due to Climate Change, but rather Corruption in high office.)
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To: grundle

Cops are treated like President Trump. He’s always wrong and everything is his fault. Friggin’ hippies are still as useless as they were back in the 60s.


33 posted on 10/28/2023 10:03:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: jimtorr

He’s getting the Harry Callahan treatment.


34 posted on 10/28/2023 10:04:04 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🇮🇱)
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To: Alberta's Child

The key bit of the story

“A Broward Sheriff’s deputy driving an unmarked unit following behind maneuvered his F-150 truck in front of the car to bring it to a stop.

In his report, Hirsch said he was worried the car might roll backward or the third suspect might jump behind the wheel and take off. He attempted to maneuver his squad car behind the Infiniti to barricade it in place. But as he hit the grass he lost control of his cruiser and ran into the Infiniti, causing $9,721 in damage to his vehicle.”

So he attempted to maneuver his car behind an already stationary vehicle and crashed into it instead.


35 posted on 10/28/2023 10:04:42 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: Alberta's Child
The details of the article tell a different story.

You READ the article?

Isn't that against the rules?

🤡

36 posted on 10/28/2023 10:04:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: grundle

From Yahoo, so I expect bias. It’s in Florida, so I expect the article to hype the story. It’s about a cop, so I expect the article to be written from the point of view that the cop is at fault.


37 posted on 10/28/2023 10:05:06 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: MeganC

DING, DING, DING !!!

WE HAVE A WINNER! !!!

My Uncle has got to be spinning in His Grave...

If He were still alive He could spend a few weeks going around the Country
Bitc}{$LAPPING these idiots that are labeled Police Officers.


38 posted on 10/28/2023 10:15:44 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: grundle

Insanity strikes again. Who are these dummkopf’s in charge and why are they not fired for their sheer stupidity?


39 posted on 10/28/2023 10:17:09 AM PDT by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: usurper

No. Local citizens should fire incompetence. Unions have no place in a free society.


40 posted on 10/28/2023 10:18:25 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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