GUEST COMENTARY the Law Officer America Needs More Straight-Talking Sheriffs “Society wants to blame everything but where the blame should be. The blame goes to this individual,” CLICK Sheriff TO TAP TO Billy WATCH Woods said. On the afternoon of Thursday Feb. 1, 2024, there was a horrific incident in Silver Springs, Florida. Three people were killed and another was injured when a woman stole a Marion County deputy’s patrol vehicle, led other deputies in a pursuit, and crashed into a pickup truck. It all began when a deputy responded to a “suspicious incident” call at a local shopping center. When the deputy arrived, he spoke with 33-year-old Kendra Boone. He did so by rolling down the passenger window and contacting her while still seated in his patrol SUV. When he got out of the SUV to continue the conversation, she climbed into the vehicle through the still open passenger window, got in the driver’s seat, and started to drive away, evidentiary video shows. The deputy ran after her. But she accelerated onto the road, as the deputy called for help. Minutes later, three people— two of them innocent—were dead. But this commentary is not 14 The Blues - August ‘24 about that incident. It’s about the straight talk some sheriffs give the media and public. Case in point, the magnificent press conference Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods held the day after the Feb. 1 incident. Some of the first words the sheriff uttered in this press conference were: “My deputy did absolutely nothing wrong.” Wouldn’t it be great if more police leaders could bring themselves to support their troops like that? Not only did Woods emphatically defend his deputy. He repeatedly referred to the woman who reportedly stole and crashed the patrol vehicle as a “moron.” And when a reporter asked about the Marion County SO’s policy on leaving patrol vehicles running after exiting the vehicle, Woods got a little peeved. “I had a feeling y’all were going to push my buttons. That doesn’t mean sh*t. That doesn’t play a factor in anything. This moron stole a police vehicle and killed two human beings,” he said. Woods gave a lecture on the attempts of people to point the finger at the wrong causes of tragedies like the patrol vehicle theft and fatal wreck. “Society wants to blame everything else but where the blame should be. The blame goes to this individ-
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