Racist Detroit police chief supports the second amendment.
“Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon,” said Craig, who has repeatedly said he believes armed citizens deter crime. “I don’t want to take away from the good work our investigators are doing, but I think part of the drop in crime, and robberies in particular, is because criminals are thinking twice that citizens could be armed.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140716/METRO01/307160034
i can beat that:
on-duty police officers attended a rick scott-for-governor event:
TALLAHASSEE — A police union official filed a complaint Thursday with the Florida Elections Commission, accusing Gov. Rick Scott of illegally coercing on-duty police officers to attend a campaign event in Tampa on Monday.
The complaint was filed by Jeff Marano of the Florida Police Benevolent Association, a union supporting Scott's leading Democratic challenger, Charlie Crist. Marano is president of the PBA's Broward County chapter.
Under Florida law, it's a first-degree misdemeanor for a public official to "directly or indirectly coerce" any employee to engage in political activity, and employees are prohibited from doing so while working.
Scott's campaign said it made its intentions clear but a high-ranking member of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office insisted that he believed he was going to a state event to meet the governor and discuss ways to reduce crime, which is why he asked several deputies to come along.
"We obviously didn't know we were going to a campaign event," said Hillsborough Col. Jim Previtera. "Had we known it was a campaign event, we wouldn't have been there."
Previtera said he was working on Friday, the Fourth of July, when Cody Vildostegui, a Scott campaign aide, asked him to attend a press conference Monday about reducing crime. Previtera's boss, Sheriff David Gee, who supports Scott, was unable to attend.
Also in attendance was another Scott supporter, Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who said the same campaign staffer made it clear to him that it was an event promoting Scott's re-election bid.
"It was unequivocally clear to me that this was purely a political event," Gualtieri said. "I knew what I was going into … Where the communication broke down, I don't know, but it didn't break down with me."
Gualtieri said Scott's campaign even asked him for his private email address to avoid using a government email account for political purposes.
As an elected official, Gualtieri is exempt from the ban on public employees attending campaign events during working hours.
The Tampa event was part of Scott's three-city "Let's Keep Florida Safe" campaign swing. Public notifications of the events were made by his campaign, not the governor's office.
Also present were Holmes Beach police Chief William Tokajer and Craig Baker, a law enforcement officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a state agency under Scott's control.
FWC spokeswoman Katie Purcell said she didn't know who told Baker to attend but that the request came from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which she said asks FWC to provide additional security for the governor at events.
"There was a misunderstanding as to what it was for," Purcell said. "We were under the impression that's what it was for. It turned out to be more of a political event."
FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger confirmed Purcell's account, and said it was a misunderstanding. "We've taken steps to ensure similar misunderstandings will not occur in the future," Plessinger said.
To buttress his allegations, Marano cited news reports by WFLA-Ch. 8, the
Tampa Tribune and WTVT-Ch. 13, which quoted Chief Tokajer as saying the campaign did not tell him that the event was political.
