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Broward County Sheriff's Office makes the news again, and again not in a good way:
‘Sheriff, hurry up please.’ Disabled Florida man battles intruder as cops wait down the street. (tampabay.com)]
Older gent is just getting out of the shower before going to bed when he realizes there's somebody casing his house.
That "18" is apparently not a typo.
RTWT, the article linked discusses the 'no duty to protect' issue as well. All in all a great article for getting your own gun and training.
Oh, and in other recent news:
Florida’s top law enforcement agency confirms it is investigating Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony over a wider range of issues than it acknowledged six months ago.
Broward County Sheriff's Office makes the news again, and again not in a good way:
‘Sheriff, hurry up please.’ Disabled Florida man battles intruder as cops wait down the street. (tampabay.com)]
Older gent is just getting out of the shower before going to bed when he realizes there's somebody casing his house.
Seventy-year-old Bill Norkunas, a childhood polio survivor, headed over to the light and flicked it on hoping to scare away whoever was there. Instead, the light was a beacon drawing a young man to his front door, a door made of glass.
And then for the next 15 minutes, Norkunas stood there, barefoot and unclothed, with his crutches, on one side of the glass pane trying to steady a gun in his trembling hand while the stranger stood on the other side, pounding on the door, banging it with his hip or gnawing at the thick hurricane-grade glass with a garden paver.
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And as bewildering, and just as terrifying to him, is the knowledge that a squad of Broward sheriff’s deputies responded to his Tamarac neighborhood, but none came close to his home to stop the man. Instead, they waited down the street until he walked over to them and surrendered, witnesses told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
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A dispatcher hears the glass breaking and alerts the 18 deputies who had been assigned to go to Norkunas’ home, according to a dispatcher’s log that documents the call and response. The Sheriff’s Office initially refused to release those public records, as well as the 911 call and police report, until the Sun Sentinel’s attorney got involved.
That "18" is apparently not a typo.
RTWT, the article linked discusses the 'no duty to protect' issue as well. All in all a great article for getting your own gun and training.
Oh, and in other recent news:
Florida’s top law enforcement agency confirms it is investigating Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony over a wider range of issues than it acknowledged six months ago.
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