Punished for Being HUMAN???

Jan 18, 1:20 PM EST


Bradenton police officer reassigned over shopping cart incident


The Police Department is located at the east end of City Centre.

Address: 100 10th Street West
Bradenton, FL 34205
Email: BPD
Phone: (941) 932-9300
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- A police officer has been reassigned to front-desk duty after drawing cheers and jeers for saving a homeless woman's shopping cart full of belongings.

Patrol Officer Nicholas Evans, 26, was celebrated by homeless advocates after he pulled a packed shopping cart alongside his police cruiser for 12 miles to the jail after arresting its homeless owner on an outstanding warrant last week.

But the three-year veteran was widely ridiculed by peers and criticized by Chief Michael Radzilowski for failing to use common sense and not figuring out another way to save the woman's belongings.

He was reassigned to front-desk duty Tuesday while the incident is investigated further. Evans is not likely to be fired, the chief said.

"He believes what he did was right at the time," the officer's wife, Liz Evans, told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Authorities have learned that Evans also dragged another shopping cart while driving after returning to duty later that night - violating a supervisor's order. The second incident involved an empty CVS pharmacy cart that he returned to the store.

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Filing an Objection for the Color Orange

Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence. - Henri Frederic Amiel


The color orange is not only a beautiful color but it has been used for many worthy reasons when someone attempts to garner attention for their cause.

In Tampa Bay and Hillsborough County, the color orange is increasingly treated with disrespect and I've noticed for too long and today I'm filing an objection. When we go and wage PEACE at events, they use big (I mean BIG!!!) ugly city trucks (painted partly orange and perhaps bought solely for this occasion with the Homeland Control (remember replace the word security with control) dollars left over after everyone got new cellphones, cars, hookers and cigars. What did the city/county CHICKS, get? I think I know but they should be better bargainers, yknow?
At any rate,I had never EVER seen any trucks like this in Tampa before that day, and they looked brand new. I refer to the day in late 2005 when Bush came to Tampa to stump for one of the GOP'ers and hundreds of us turned out to specify how we REALLY feel about him Maybe next they'll use those big trucks like in Nazi Germany. Open your mouth or have the wrong last name and they'll toss your body in and drive away when appropriate. Just part of our Control for the current PUS.
And, currently the inmates of Hillsborough Cty and who knows how many other counties are garbed in these loud orange uniforms which is sposed to let you know they are bad people. (So WHY ORANGE??? is there some sick orange bias at work here? It must be nipped in the bud) Check yourself. The keepers are worse than the inmates.

So this is two glaring local instances I see where the color orange is being used in a detrimental fashion and on behalf of the color orange, and the deepest respect for it's loveliness: I OBJECT.

And some other thoughts for the day:


"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance." - President George Herbert Walker Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N., February 1, 1992.
(One case where apparently junior is not like deddy as he pretty much kicks the U.N. in the teeth on a daily basis)

"In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." - U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
(Tampa Tribune --- LIES --- Printed Daily)