Drunk_Dynasty wrote:lol that is wild. Dude is a fat toad that enjoys sucking on the teats of the taxpayer funded government.
Put there by the people who elected him.
There are pros and cons to any LEO position just like in any industry, but I've always liked the fact that to become sheriff you have to get elected. LEO's are much more likely to serve and protect the people when the only way they keep their job is by those same people voting for them.
In bigger counties you lose a fair amount of that aspect of sheriff policing versus municipal hired city police officers, but you have to still admire and respect the way it works in rural counties. You have to be doing something blatant with the possibility of harming others before they'll bust you.....if you're a local citizen in decent standing within the community.
The best part about this guy was that he was headed home from a state sheriff's association meeting in Alexandria.....pretty safe bet that he wasn't the only one leaving that meeting impaired. I might have known a guy who worked the bar at a resort after one of those meetings was held there....the dude is a pretty good example to base a stereotype off of.
I will say this in his defense.....I highly doubt he's pulled over a bunch of people after bar close to go fishing for drunks in years. He's not that type of cop. If it was a suburban city cop who rolled their issued vehicle while drunk?
I'd be happy to see karma come around the other way on a hypocrite to that degree.
This doesn't upset me nearly as much as it would had it been a city cop.
Should he resign? Should rolling a vehicle paid for by the taxpayers who elected him while shitfaced be worthy of his immediate resignation?
Absolutely......
.....in pretty much every other county besides Hennepin.
The mayor of the biggest city in that same county just got re-elected.....the people who voted him back in office for another term are the same people this guy was largely elected by. Everyone who voted in Minneapolis to keep Frey as mayor will have a vote when this sheriff runs for re-election.
If Frey can get re-elected after deliberately giving a police precinct to a rioting mob so they could burn it to the ground and feel like they got their trophy? Before that same mob spent most of the next week burning down half the city.....entire business corridors like Lake Street leveled to ashes......
If Frey can pull that shit and get re-elected?
Why would this sheriff resign over a single vehicle being totalled due to him rolling it while hammered?
Maybe this guy knows his constituents fairly well, and that's why he's not worried about getting re-elected?
Or maybe he doesn't.....because a straight white male being too much of a party guy might be where the line is drawn by the Hennepin county voting public.
Now if he was a black tranny elected official who used the excuse of, "hitting the bottle too hard as a way to try and deal with the pain in the aftermath of George Floyd being murdered?"
Then he'd/she'd win in an landslide.
Drunken straight white male LEO going Super Trooper on the bit?
That's probably the one thing the voters of Hennepin will get pissed off about....