FL Sheriff Orders Masks Ban For Deputies

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods on Tuesday told his deputies that they are prohibited from wearing masks while on duty just as Florida set a new daily record for COVID-19 fatalities.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1325636

So if one or more of the sheriff’ deputy die, does criminal negligence apply here? Or if there was malicious intent…murder?

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In Errol Morris’s classic “Vernon, Florida” the sheriff is excited about getting a walkie talkie. As the interview progresses we find out that he only purchased one handset.

Sounds like this guy.

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Well, the Sheriff is a dope, isn’t he. He says he can find and equal number of professionals on both sides of the argument. He should bone up on his definition of a professional.

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Wearing a mask helps protecting the community, so it makes you a promoter of communism. And we all know that’s bad. Besides discouraging selfishness is bad for white supremacy.

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“The fact is, the amount of professionals that give the reason why we should, I can find the exact same amount of professionals that say why we shouldn’t."

Not medical ones you can’t, Barney.

The ones that you CAN? Those are called ‘quacks.’

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Talk about a Dupe of Hazards…

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It’s what you would expect from a grown man who still goes by “Billy”…

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That photo makes him look like a tin-star dictator. Perhaps he thinks he can order the virus out of his jusidiction.

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So I’m clear, his position is that LEOs need to be identifiable at all times when conducting police work? Face, badge, name, body cam, etc? And the public will hold him to this?

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The fact is, the amount of professionals that give the reason why we should, I can find the exact same amount of professionals that say why we shouldn’t.”

Liar.

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“Please keep in mind this entire pandemic is fluid and constantly changing the way things are done,” Woods wrote, according to the Ocala Star-Banner. ‘However, my orders will be followed or my actions will be swift to address.”

So, if nothing else, his hard-earned stupidity is consistent. Awesome.

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I bet you this dude would be fine with his deputies wearing masks (and no badges/name tags) while curb stomping protesters, though. Yes indeed, I’m quite sure he’d have zero issue with that.

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It is the tax payers office dickhead.

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The selfish idiocy… it burns.

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Someone needs to defund this guy before he gets people killed.

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Remember when the stoopidest sheriff in America was Joe Arpaio?

Those were the days…

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you post support for BLM the cops tell you don’t think of calling 911; you’re on your own. Want to be safe in one of the Country’s major Covid Hot spots, and you’re on your own there too.
This dweeb personifies what wrong with cops as a class. Focused on what they want for themselves; not the people they are
charged with protecting. There is not a coherent public policy thought in this tough guy’s addled brain.

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Karma is contagious. This dip shit just signed his own “do not treat” order.

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This sounds to me like he is exposing his department to criminal liability.

Fox News has really ruined this country. It has created a weird cultural relativism in which everyone can claim the “right” to any insane opinion if it makes them richer or feel better or let’s them act lazier. Both-siderism has been weaponized into the view that anything is true if you feel it in what Colbert used to call “my gut.” It is a true capitalist paradise where asking people to be considerate to others and wear a mask gets one laughed or sneered at, even as these same selfish people will expect the community to bail them out when they get into trouble or fall ill.

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