Florida sheriff: I'll deputize gun owners if violent protests erupt

Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels gave no indication in a three-minute video released Wednesday that any demonstrations are planned in his suburban Jacksonville county. Daniels also said he would protect any peaceful protests, but added that if anyone starts "tearing up Clay County, that is not going to be acceptable."

"If we can't handle you, I'll exercise the power and authority as the sheriff and I'll make special deputies of every lawful gun owner in the county and I'll deputize them to this one purpose: to stand in the gap between lawlessness and civility," said Daniels, sporting a white cowboy hat as he stood in front of 18 deputies.

Daniels, who is African American, said in the video that his department has a "great relationship" with its residents, but "if you come to Clay County and think for one second we'll bend our backs for you, you're sadly mistaken." "The second you step out from up under the protection of the Constitution, we'll be waiting on you and give you everything you want: all the publicity, all the pain, all the glamour and glory for all that five minutes will give you."

Daniels, a Republican finishing his first term, is being challenged by six opponents in the upcoming election. He is under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after his former employer, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, announced last year that he'd had an affair with a co-worker when he was running its jails. Daniels, who is married, was accused of later having the woman falsely arrested. He issued an apology, but said he wouldn't discuss specifics.

We should do the same here.

I just want to be sure about this. The “we need assault weapons because the government might become tyrannical” saw a government employee kneel on the neck of a person until died and they came down on the cop’s side?

To be sure, he’ll only deputize the white kind of people

Whoa.......that’s kind of a scary thought.....❤️🇨🇦

The Wild Wild West is coming back. And this. Ppl, is what you will get when police are defunded/dismantled. And ya think that will end police shootings, brutality and racism? What a huge can of worms opening now...

Oh, that will solve everything you moron😠

Haha.... that's awesome! And I'm happy the media is printing it. Now these effers KNOW to stay the heck out of his town. Deterrence works! 2A

Good stuff, take notes radical far left domestic terrorists.

I always think of deputize with a Southern Accent, don't know why. Dehp You Tazz

Infringement of my property....damn right I would defend by any means necessary

Come my way. I won't hesitate to bust a cap in a wt pig

I'll like to see that wt try

The implied part would be 'White' gun owners. Yet NO ONE DARE say systematic racism exists.

Lol.. this is no surprise from the right wing morons of Florida

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