TAMPA, Fla. --
Mary O'Connor submitted her resignation after an internal affairs review found she violated police department policy during the Nov. 12 stop by a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy. The deputy issued only a verbal warning instead of a citation, according to the internal affairs review. The golf cart did not have a license tag, a requirement for when such vehicles are driven on public streets. O'Connor's husband, Keith, said they had just come from a restaurant and didn't usually drive the cart on streets.
Law its above and beyond this⁉️🥴
Florida folks are the absolute worst drivers in all America. Fucking terrible.
Disgusted at her!
It was more then that so quit lieing
Haha pig
Jane Castor should have never appointed her with her past of punching a deputy and kicking out a cruiser window after a DUI stop of her and her boyfriend. Yet Jane Castor fired her Fire Chief because she disagreed with how he disciplined HIS direct reports. She wants all women.
They used the power to intimidate the law
Where is the body camera footage of Pelosi?!
Because she didn’t want to pay a $100 fine.
我覺得應該要依法處理!
Thank goodness for getting the criminals off the road!
Watch carefully, looks like her husband tried to wave off the badge. He takes it and closes the wallet. Like he's familiar with the ethics code.
Frank Regan would’ve booted her 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Trumper no doubt
Lol that is ignorance on another level.
The part that got her in trouble was 'I’m hoping you’ll let us go tonight' If she would have just introduced herself and let the officer decide she would have been fine.
Criminals gonna crime.
This type of thing happens all of the time.
Yuck!
Let's let bygones be bye gone's.
That is so incredibly disappointing. Zero integrity.
Happens all the time w cops. No man would resign. Pay the fine and move on.
Good that she resigned! Two rules of law is unacceptable.
Buh bye
This doesn't seem like that big of deal. 🤷
Don't police do this all the time?
Yess ..
so what , it's not like anyone was a victim , phucking snow melts ffs get over it
RHIP didn't work in this case, fortunately.
Who cares Honestly
Why did she have to say anything about her profession - because she was strong arming him obviously. No one is above the law.
MonicaRivpin I betcha she wished she just paid the ticket.
This behavior sheds light on the gang like operations of some police and sheriff’s department in this country officers who operates in the best interest of themselves and their department, at the expense of properly enforcing the law a danger to the community
I’m not surprised, have seen better cops behave worse… the justice system is fucked…exercise your right on the first amendment protect yours the bad guys now wear capes too 😋
MonicaRivpin Perfect example of abuse of power.
I don't understand what the big deal is. She was riding in a golf cart on a public road, is that the biggest crime they've got in Tampa? Meanwhile other cops abuse, maim, and kill suspects in custody and keep their jobs.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what she said. Shame on the media for making this out to be something that it is clearly not. TheMediaNeedsToGoBackToSchool
Todos coludos o todos parejos😂
Someone wanted her job .
Fuck Around and Find Out
roadrunner6149 Classic cop move.
And she was aware of the video recording ...Wao Jaja
She has past history of very bad ass behavior. Read up on her. People really don’t change much
Dull!
She did resign, right?
how can ABC ignore the biggest scandal in US history? Collusion to silence a legitimate news story days before an election. The country needs to wake up.
Ahh ha ha...what? I never heard of traffic stops for golf carts. Isn't that more like to joke with people? You know, just like when a cop gives a little kid a ticket when driving a kid's car on a sidewalk or at side of a slow road?
MontcoCourtNews If I was her i would have too
These disgusting people.
ACAB
Privilege
So what?!! So what!!!!!
She should not have resigned!
Corruption
get_this_v
Was her husband doing burnouts in the golf cart?!
How fast can a golf cart go? LOL
Gross privilege
The cop who did nothing should be disciplined too. Compare this stop to Sandra Bland's. This is textbook profiling.
Why would she preface her introduction with “Is your body camera on?” That told me everything I needed to know before even getting to the worse part of the video. To those who are saying this is fake and unfair outrage over a “golf cart” should to do some real self work.
She was very professional and nice....she didnt act like this fool
Ohh, pensé que en los países DESARROLLADOS eso no hacían eso.
What a great colleague the one who leaked the body camera footage! Worse than the mist demeanor of this police officer (chief or not) is the lack of brotherhood between cops… Unless she is recidivist on this kind of behavior and should be stop by her peers… Who knows?
Creepy energy
“White privilege”
Long standing job perk. This is the way the world used to work before everybody got so unforgiving…except for real criminals…they get a pass.
Film The Police
Unjust advantage through abuse of power. I’m shocked desantis hasn’t stepped in
I don’t see the problem, I would asked for a warning too and shown him my blue check on twitter….
Driving an unregistered vehicle with no tag on it on a public road. Let's look up the VTL on that: 320.02(1) - 60 days jail / $500 fine & 320.0815(1) - unsure What would a citizen get in this circumstance? Should the Police Chief be held to a lesser, same or higher standard?
The Golf cart part is kind of irrelevant…an apology and at worse a ‘fix it’ ticket would have sufficed. But to use rank, badge and imply future favors if needed elevates this to utterly inappropriate conduct - so yes, her resignation is warranted
She could just have that ticket, and there will be no problem at all ! However, I believe it was her time to leave the office with a bad reputation!
Actually, I think what really got her in trouble was the offer of the business card and stating to ‘call her’ for anything…. If only the flash of the badge, she might have gotten some trouble, but the business card was the nail…
Why's it that it feels like there's a lot more to this story than I can read about in the news? Her resignation looks like damage control. Hopefully it will spark a much needed internal affairs housecleaning campaign and another press conference. Just as a public courtesy.
There should be initial and regular ethics training to maintain police certification.
if she's willing to flash her badge over this (a very minor incident), imagine what else she'd use it for. Both the officer that pulled them over and the police chief should be out of a job for this. Neither one has any integrity.
And you believe this is news worthy and Hunter Biden and all the crap that was unleashed at Twitter isn’t?
If she’s this weak, she should resign.
Just could have taken the ticket.
If you can't follow the law as a Police Chief, how would you expect your Department or civilians to follow it? 😲
Man she used her get our jail free badge on damn golf cart violation 🤣🤣🤣
I honestly don't see anything wrong with this. She didn't threaten the officer. She asked if he could let her go with a warning. I don't know her. She could be a terrible person, but what she did I'd NOT illegal.
She should be fired.
There was no problem with it until the very end when she handed him her card and said if I can ever do anything for you let me know.(Up until then it was just a professional courtesy that happens in all professions). That made it a quid pro quo and problematic.
Every one of those 'thin blue line' stickers on the back of personal vehicles is the same thing...asking for special treatment by 'fellow law enforcement.' It's unethical and shameful.
Soooo…. Who cares! What’s the scandal? Officers let me go with a warning all the time. Shame on ABC for reporting this an 0 minutes on Twitter Gate! Disgusting!!!
I think it would be more of an issue if she’d bribed the deputy. All she did was identify who she was and asked if they could go about their business. No different than if I’d been stopped, showed my CPL license, veteran ID and asked if I could go.
No one is above the law period! Including any US President as long as the media does not take side and be double standard. Trying to cover up for any one.
The cop is trash as well. It's one thing to worry about police chiefs gone bad, but these cops are just as bad. It's a vicious circle jerk.
I wonder how this actually surfaced. It seems so common it almost feels targeted.
She flashed her badge to get out of a citation for driving a golf cart. Everyone relax. Fake outrage.
Wow
She’ll have a lot more time now to ride around in a golf cart…
Sure but with a written warning lic and insurance please
GOOD
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