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As Hurricane Irma's destructive path nears Florida, a sheriff is warning sex offenders to beware of officers checking IDs at shelters. But now people are worried the rules will also affect others with outstanding warrants.
[...] "If you go to a shelter for #Irma, be advised: sworn LEOs will be at every shelter, checking IDs. Sex offenders/predators will not be allowed."
The sheriff explained the tweet further by writing on top of it, "If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail."
[...] RT America contacted the sheriff's office, and was told a public information officer would call back with further information.
Free pajamas and meals provided at no cost.
Source: Florida sheriff offers jail as 'secure shelter' for those with warrants fleeing Hurricane Irma
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:06AM (20 children)
In case you didn't notice, this news comes from RT. Anyone has another source?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Informative) by SixGunMojo on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:16AM (4 children)
Here you go. :) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=polk+county+sherriff+warrents+irma [lmgtfy.com]
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:34AM (3 children)
WTF
(Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:38AM (2 children)
The website requires scripting to work.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Arik on Sunday September 10 2017, @06:59PM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 11 2017, @06:22PM
Someone wasn't listening during the math lesson on ensembles, inclusion and exclusion.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:30AM (5 children)
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170906/13220538158/florida-sheriff-plans-to-use-hurricane-irma-to-bump-up-arrest-numbers-fill-his-jail.shtml [techdirt.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @02:27PM (4 children)
According to the source article [hrw.org], it is suggested that 517 out of 600 prisoners drowned or were otherwise killed as a result of New Orleans jailers in the employ of the county sheriff abandoning the jail with all 600 prisoners left locked inside.
Highlights:
- many had not even been brought before a judge to be charged with a crime, much less being convicted of anything
- locked cells flooded
- toilets backed up and overflowed due to flooding
- bodies floating in inside floodwaters
- no fresh water, so prisoners resorted to drinking "contaminated" water. Think about it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @04:10PM (3 children)
A-yup. I feel like a certain portion of US law enforcement would feel just at home in, say, Saudi Arabia. Cutting off hands and heads for minor offenses, stuff like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @06:05PM
Yet it works just fine there. Cut off whatever was used to commit a crime... Sex offenders especially.
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Monday September 11 2017, @02:41AM
I'll tell you, the Saudis are fabulous. They bought a whole floor of Trump World Tower. And when I went there, so friendly! They love me. We did a sexy sword dance. And Wilbur Ross said there wasn't one protester. Not one. Fabulous! 🇺🇸
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 11 2017, @06:30PM
"law enforcement" ?
A significant portion of the US isn't thinking very differently from the Saudi or the Taliban about people they find ... unpleasant. It's just the words and underlying concepts that change.
The law enforcement subset is just a product of selection of individuals based on their willingness to perform certain tasks. That biases the sample a lot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:31AM
https://web.archive.org/web/20170910005738/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/07/florida-sheriff-warns-sex-offenders-people-with-warrants-at-shelters-will-be-arrested.html [archive.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:34AM
Yes, RT has links to the tweets themselves. There is no better source than the primary source.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 10 2017, @11:57AM
They don't need to make this stuff up - but it does fit the old rhetoric nicely, not surprising they're giving it a broader audience.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:46PM (5 children)
The funny thing about Russian foreign propaganda is that they've figured out that the truth works really well.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday September 10 2017, @04:09PM (3 children)
Yep, that's why I use it so often when I'm in a trolling mood. There's nothing better than pissing someone off with unarguable facts.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Geezer on Sunday September 10 2017, @06:03PM (2 children)
"There's nothing better than pissing someone off with unarguable facts."
I humbly submit that a nice cold beer while doing it is better. Getting a hummer under the table all the while approaches perfection.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday September 10 2017, @06:28PM (1 child)
I stand corrected. You, sir, are a visionary.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 11 2017, @06:34PM
On the matter of standing, hiding the hummer under the table is what prevents it from being perfection.
Proper body shape selection allows for both the troller's beer and keyboard to rest on a naked person. With proper training, she'll hold the screen up to the right height, too.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:36PM
Selective truth, published about any population of millions, can paint them all as just about anything you want.
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