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Florida Sheriff floats deputizing all gun owners in county to battle protests
The three minute video is full of the bluster that traditionally plays well in Clay.
By A.G. Gancarski
on July 1, 2020
A Northeast Florida Sheriff facing a competitive primary used department resources to make a self-promotional video this week under the guise of combatting civil unrest.
The message to would-be protesters: Youve been warned.
(The message to political opponents, meanwhile, is one of the power and prerogatives of incumbency, especially in a crowded field of candidates.)
Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels released Tuesday a red meat video vowing to, if needed, deputize gun owners in the event Black Lives Matter protesters came into the county.
The warning (not a threat, Daniels says repeatedly), is especially interesting, given that Camp Blanding, from which the National Guard could deploy as it did during riots in actual cities, is in the county.
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https://floridapolitics.com/archives/345399-deputize-gun-owners-clay
budkin
(6,682 posts)Like. Ever.
MagickMuffin
(15,872 posts)I guess since he has made this call, he can't discriminate and everyone with a gun gets to be deputized!
Mariana
(14,830 posts)blm
(112,873 posts)Solly Mack
(90,730 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,275 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)under the color of law. what could go wrong?
Sheriff is a fascist idiot.
Mariana
(14,830 posts)It doesn't matter if he never actually acts on the threat. Next election, his constituents will remember that he said this, and more of them will vote for him because of it.
sop
(9,846 posts)The chances BLM protesters show up in rural Clay County are rather slim, but he's staking out the christian law-and-order political platform just in case: "God is raising up men and women just like the folks standing behind me who will have strong backbones and will stand in the gap between lawlessness and the citizenry were sworn to protect.
Daniels is himself under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement related to an affair he had with a fellow officer back when he was at the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office and a subsequent false arrest of that officer. Currently Daniels has six challengers in his upcoming re-election bid, he'll probably be out of office soon.
marie999
(3,334 posts)won't he also be deputizing people who are against him?
Phoenix61
(16,926 posts)soryang
(3,298 posts)that's my impression of it. pilots, military officers and retirees, lawyers, medical professionals. That's in the more heavily populated area closest to Duval County. Further away it is predominantly rural.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Our brilliant plan to begin the revolution in East Bumblefuck Florida has been whiffed out by the ever-vigilant, ever-paranoid nutters. Time to draw up plans to start the revolution in West Bumblefuck idaho.
jab12
(13 posts)trump especially, pandemic, race riots, or worse.This shits gonna get bad.
Wounded Bear
(58,362 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Let's ride our horses in and have a shoot out right here in the East. Bang, bang, shoot em up.
A lot of this country is turning into vigilantes, 2020 style.
Wounded Bear
(58,362 posts)right here in River City. We need more gunfights on Main Street at noon and OK Corrals in America.
I guess we're just too dull.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,539 posts)Demovictory9
(32,297 posts)own guns? Libs?
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)What could possibly go wrong? Who could have foreseen the horror?
struggle4progress
(117,949 posts)Author: First Coast News Staff, Anne Schindler
Published: 2:38 PM EDT July 1, 2020
Updated: 6:07 PM EDT July 1, 2020
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. A yearlong investigation of Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels may be drawing to a close.
First Coast News has learned from multiple law enforcement sources that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has completed its initial report into misconduct allegations against Clay's top cop. The report is now in the possession of the 4th District State Attorneys Office, which must review and make recommendations, an FDLE spokesperson confirmed.
The investigation was sparked in May 2019 after Daniels called 911 on his lover of six years, whom he accused of stalking, and asked his own officers to place her under arrest. Cierra Smith was arrested and detained for 6 hours but not jailed after an assistant state attorney found there was no probable cause to book her.
It later emerged that Daniels began his affair with Smith when he was her direct supervisor at the Duval County Jail ...
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/investigation-of-clay-county-sheriff-nears-conclusion/77-c80918a2-fdba-4ab5-b887-dc7d63abec40
struggle4progress
(117,949 posts)... Denise Daniels filed the papers Friday in Duval County, noting that the marriage was "irretrievably broken" and that she wants to drop Daniels' last name, according to court records.
Daniels' long-running affair with Cierra Smith, a woman he supervised when he was chief of the jail for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, became widely known after Daniels accused his ex-lover of stalking.
In early May, Daniels filed a report accusing Smith of having a gun in her car and following him in a "manner that caused him great concern." His deputies resisted an order from Daniels to arrest Smith, citing a lack of probable cause, according to a State Attorney's Office document ...
https://www.news4jax.com/news/2019/07/30/wife-of-clay-county-sheriff-darryl-daniels-files-for-divorce/