a game of chicken
St. Pete cops slice up homeless tents, inviting national outrage.
Tampa cops arrest a rape victim, inviting national outrage.
This one-upsmanship scares me. I think they ought to settle it with a game of chicken on the Howard Franklin, and we’ll hope no one flinches.
Wayne Garcia has a real good bit on the difference between the way both cities, the mayors, and your daily papers reacted to the horrible f*ckups.
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February 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I think St. Pete is actually ahead — remember when the two St Pete cops charged into the car rental office and roughed up the two employees in a mistaken drug sting? Cuffed them, ground their faces into the carpet, then hi-fived each other, before finding out they were wrong. All captured by the security camera.
I’m a Gold Shield Foundation donor and I usually stand up for cops because they have really wretched jobs, but at times like this, it’s hard to be proud of law enforcement.
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Cops aren’t bad people. They’re just poorly trained, managed and paid.
February 3rd, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Might want to check your facts, the people who “charged into the car rental office and roughed up the two employees in a mistaken drug sting” were actually from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Also they weren’t employees of the business. Nice try with the association though. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/11/Southpinellas/County_to_pay_for_bus.shtml