An 84-year-old World War II veteran named Daniel Daley broke his neck outside a Florida bar after being slammed to the ground by an Orlando police officer young enough to be his grandson. It happened in 2010, after Daley left his car in the wrong parking lot. He came out as a tow truck arrived. An argument ensued. The next thing the octogenarian remembered was being in the hospital.
But a POLITICO review of police data, court documents and interviews with those who dealt with Demings as police chief revealed widespread dissatisfaction with her responses to incidents of brutality during her four-year tenure, from 2007 to 2011, and earlier a brief stint as a deputy chief overseeing the department’s patrol bureau, a position she was appointed to in 2006.
She says she was obliged to do so because of a technicality—the department had failed to inform Trinidad he was under investigation for falsifying the report—and that the decision not to initially release the surveillance video to Asprilla’s attorneys was made by prosecutors. “I value the work they’re doing,” Demings added of the post-Floyd protesters. “As chief, I regularly met with and included members of my community in addressing some of our toughest challenges, including holding us accountable.”
“I never saw any changes in policies,” said Lawanna Gelzer, a Black community activist and longtime critic of the Orlando police. “I never found anything to bridge the strain between policing in the community. I saw overpolicing. The same patterns continued during [her] administration that we’re still dealing with today in Orlando.”
“I joined the Orlando Police Department when I was 26 years old—a young Black woman, fresh out of an early career in social work. I am sure you can imagine the mental and physical stress of the police academy,” Demings wrote in theop-ed, which was published four days after Floyd’s death. “Not only the exams and physical training, but the daily thoughts of, ‘What am I doing here?’ as I looked around and did not see many people who looked like me.
“However, a local weekly publication chose to do an eight-page story on 98 claims of excessive force during the five year period,” she wrote in theThat was before the incident involving Daley, the World War II veteran who parked in the wrong lot, a case that attracted sympathy for him and criticism for Demings’ defense of the officer.
And her husband is a closed minded coporate yes man. Someone who won't listen to anything that he does not agree with. I think he is a republican lack. A shame for Val. I really like her until I heard him on Katy Turr.
God forbid we get a real (non-apologist) cop in charge who actually stands up to the BLM crowd. HT to RepValDemings
No skills to be president
For Liberals Today is the only day that matters...... All others get Canceled.
EXACTLY why she’d be a GREAT CHOICE for VP!
Give me a break...She would be a FANTASTIC choice. Apparently the people in her district don’t have an issue with her, nor her husband, also a former officer, now Mayor. She is my first choice. Karen Bass is my other strong preference. We are seriously so dumb the way we judge.
Or it could be that she understands both sides of the issue and understands it will take both sides coming together. America is tired of division. This is an issue we HAVE to come together on and get right.
And yet with all his history Trump was elected President Sure can find something wrong in everyone's past but most change for better not worse like Trump has. Doubt anyone who has been Police or Politician or lawyer doesn't have some bad it's more important who they are now
She doesn't check the right boxes for the left They need a non-cop, full-on African-American woman That means No Val, No Kamala, No Warren, No Tammy Countdown to Michele O parachuting in...
I think you know you aren’t allowed to criticize female liberal minority politicians. It’s clear racism. Or any minority candidate for that matter. Get it together people!!!!
Karen Bass for VP.
There's only two women that I believe in. One was supposed to have had 57% of the VP vote, but the surveyors didn't like it so they ask twitter how they felt. So I said, 'If KamalaHarris has the votes stop Fuckin around!' The other is quick on her feet w/ plans/policies Ewarren
Need those police union $$$
Val's no 'Gal,' IMHO. Rounded skull; large hands; square jaw; broad shoulders (trying to minimize by dropping)...
Joe Biden's 'arrested development' thinking: BLACK - Check FEMALE - Check PAST PERFORMANCE RECORD: Who cares? It's a 'Minority' whose articulate--voters will eat it up. They won't know I'm pandering.
Whoever Biden picks needs to come clean. Own up to how & why they screwed up. Really apologize (not a Hillary 'I'm sorry I offended you' apology). Obstacles they encountered. Lessons learned. How to move on. But, I'd vote Biden even if he picked a covid laced turd. Biden2020
Nope. Not her
Harris is no good either given her time as AG in California.
Biden needs a female Negro V.P. but it can't be an ex-cop. What to do What to do?
Thanks for writing this piece and digging into real data. Biden would be a fool to tap Demings given the climate of the country and unrest related to criminal justice issues. We will see what happens.
I hope JoeBiden vetting team see this.
Was wondering when Politico was going to attack a possible Biden VP pick. They don't have Clinton or her emails to attack anymore so now it's Biden's VP choices.
She’s a bad choice
That's because all democrats are corrupt and vile. They hate America The party of envy, hate, and prejudice. No thanks, I'll vote for realDonaldTrump
was wondering when this was going to come out
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