I was gonna write a post on how incredibly stupid the Atlanta Police Department and Fulton Count Sheriff's Department are, but Boortz does a better job.
We had a man who played linebacker in college escorted by a petite 51 year old female deputy.
The deputy was overpowered in front of a monitored security camera. It was caught on tape. Evidently the people who were supposed to be watching the monitors had better things to do.
The car the police were looking for was found 13 hours later in the same garage by a civilian!
The fugitive took MARTA (Atlanta's rapid rail system) to Lennox Mall. I guess it is, as Marta's slogan states, "SMARTA to use MARTA". While the fugitive was on MARTA the cops were still looking for the Green Honda that was still in the same parking garage.
I'm glad that I don't live in Fulton County or the city of Atlanta.
Posted by denny at March 14, 2005 02:47 PM
I'm going to give the cops some slack on the Honda.
I mean, put yourself in their shoes. Multiple, cold-blooded killer loose. Are you going to detail 20 cops to check the rest of the garage - the one that anyone sane would have left immediately - just in case he's there?
(Consider if they had. And instead, he was just outside, assaulting someone else - how can you POSSIBLY excuse such behavior? Of COURSE he wasn't there, you MORONS, why were you LOOKING?)
The other stuff is damning, but I don't want to beat up on the cops for the reasonable stuff (Not spreading the word to MARTA seems odd, but again, if he's got a car - and you think he's switching vehicles, I wouldn't have thought he'd hop a train.)
The changing room scenario is unbelievable to me That... will be interesting to see if they try and defend it.
(Minor note: apparently, I played football against him at least one game. (reportedly, he was in Lexington District 1.. and back then, there was just us, Pelion, and Lexington. Pelion we played regular season (but I knew those players, being the other very rural school, about 700 students in both 7-12)), but we had a full scrimmage against Lexington my senior year... Wonder if it was my incredible block on the 34-Counter-gut that started it all......))
Posted by: Addison (the other one) on March 14, 2005 04:15 PMI am glad I got the fuck out of Atlanta in 1969, in 70 it went to shit.
Posted by: catfish on March 14, 2005 05:28 PMI'm a retired cop. Under NO circumstances would you send one female deputy to take a big, strong rapist (yea, alleged) to court. I'm really glad I don't live in Atlanta. This is one of the worst fuck-ups I've ever seen.
Posted by: Alan on March 15, 2005 01:51 AMHey - the chief admitted they FUBAR'ed it. Don't we all have to forgive them now? His Oprah appearance can't be too far down the road.
Posted by: Cap'n Ron on March 19, 2005 05:26 PM