Posted on 02/29/2024 11:28:46 AM PST by billorites
The sheriff of the Georgia county where a Venezuelan migrant has been charged with murdering nursing student Laken Riley had campaigned on refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, a resurfaced interview shows.
“It is not my intention, when elected sheriff, to cooperate with those detainers,” John Williams, now the sheriff of Athens-Clarke County, said in a 2020 interview with Athens Political Nerds.
He was referring to detainers ICE placed on illegal immigrants who were arrested on criminal charges.
“I see it as the sheriff’s responsibility, any law enforcement, to protect and serve the community,” Williams continued.
“We can’t help with a culture of fear in our community and expect our community to respond and help us in situations, because the fact is that a lot of law enforcement is based around community support,” he explained.
“Building relationships is key and if we’re antagonizing people because they are undocumented, then they built that fear in them, and they’re not likely to come to us — not only when we need their help, but when they need our help.
“So that’s not something that we’d be doing. We won’t be doing any type of round-ups and we won’t be contributing to that culture of fear,” Williams vowed.
“We want people to respect the police, but we also want them to trust us.”
The 2020 interview resurfaced online shortly after Athens Mayor Kelly Girtz was brutally heckled over his own soft stance on immigration.
On Wednesday, the mayor defended his stance over the shouts of the hecklers, attempting to dismiss what he described as “the notion of a sanctuary city” on his turf.
“There is no legislation from this government that’s created sanctuary city status,” Girtz said.
“You’re a liar!” one man shouted back, according to a report by Fox.
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Her family should be able to sue them personally.
SMH
i KNEW he would be BLACK!! WTF has happened to BLACKS??
“ WTF has happened to BLACKS??”
Huge $$$$$ for absolutely no work, just keep the position to follow the policies set forth by the Marxist elites that are giving them the $$$$$ for nothing.
That photo needs to be ‘shopped with blood dripping from his hands.
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