The system is broken.

For one police officer, will the ninth strike mean he’s out?

This time around, Sgt. German Bosque—who has been fired eight times from three different police departments—has been charged with leaving his assault weapon with his girlfriend’s father, a trained security guard, while on an eight-day leave, according to CBS4 Miami.

That’s a no-no, says the Opa-locka Police Department, which presented its case to dismiss him in front of an arbitration officer on Wednesday.

*snip*

The Miami cop has managed to return to his post despite his alleged vices. The Miami Herald reports Bosque has beaten back a long list of head-turning charges, including:

- busting the skull of a handcuffed suspect

- beating juveniles

- having dope and booze in his squad car

- ripping off suspects

- falsifying reports

- participating in an unauthorized chase where four people were killed

- calling in sick … from Cancun

“It’s allegations. Allegations are not convictions,” said Bosque’s union-provided attorney, Andrew Axelrad. “We have a system in place, and that system is a fair system.”

To hear Bosque tell it, he just loves his job. “I love serving the community. I love what I do for a living, and I’m very proud,” he said.

More: Miami Cop Fired 8 Times Could Make It 9

A Florida woman was accidentally shot in the jaw while riding in a sport utility vehicle late Sunday. She was part of a group of gun enthusiasts on their way to a shooting range when a firearm accidentally discharged, hitting the woman, said Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).

The FHP said that the incident took place near Northwest 12th Avenue in Miami on the Dolphin Expressway. No charges were filed and the woman is expected to recover. Her name has not yet been released.

Always remember: “Guns don’t shoot people…..until they do”.

#derp

A Florida police sergeant was fired for possessing several so-called Trayvon Martin shooting targets, authorities said Saturday.

Sgt. Ron King of Port Canaveral Police Department was fired Friday after an internal review investigated how he offered the hoodie paper shooting targets to two fellow officers, said John Walsh, interim CEO of the Canaveral Port Authority.

The officers, who saw King with the targets in his police vehicle, declined the offer, Walsh said.

“Port Canaveral Police Department considers that behavior unacceptable,” Walsh said of King’s conduct.

See the story here:
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More: Bill Banning Shariah Law in Florida Family Cases Passes Senate…

By Dara Kam

Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers are poised to pass a controversial law banning courts from using foreign law, after a split Senate committee signed off on the measure.

The bill (SB 58) would ban courts or other administrative authorities form using religious or foreign law in deciding matters related to family law, including divorce and child custody. The House approved a similar measure last year but it died on the Senate floor.

The Senate Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee approved the bill by a 5-4 vote, with one Republican voting against it and one Democrat voting in favor, surprising opponents of the bill, who expected it to fail.

Critics, including the Florida Bar, the Anti-Defamation League, the ACLU of Florida and the National Council of Jewish Women, contend the bill would have a negative impact on Jewish divorces, called “gets,” and could trouble the state’s relationship with Israel. Under Jewish law, only a man can grant a divorce to a woman.

That violates Florida and federal constitutional protections, David Barkey, religious freedom counsel for the Florida Anti-Defamation League told the panel. And it would bar courts from recognizing any divorce settlements granted under Israeli or Jewish law, he said.

“This legislation … could undermine Florida’s strong reputation and track record as a center for trade with Israel and other nations” and “serve as an incentive for them to take their business elsewhere,” Barkey said.

And the bill could have a chilling effect on Israeli nationals and dual citizens already living in Florida, NCJW Vice President of Advocacy Linda Geller Schwartz, who lives in Boca Raton, said.

“The message being given to the Jewish population and other minorities is a very unwelcoming one,” she said.

Read more at Palm Beach Post.

Fuck you, Pam.

FREEDOM VICTORY: Anti-Sharia Legislation passed the Florida Senate Committee: SB58 by Senator Alan Hays, Ameri… bit.ly/12Ba9qE

— Pamela Geller (@pamelageller) April 9, 2013

Criminal charges have been dropped against nine of 13 people arrested last year in Florida for allegedly participating in paramilitary training with the American Front, described by authorities as a well-armed, militia-style white supremacist group.

Only its leader, Marcus Faella, 39, still faces trial next month in Osceola County. He is charged with participating and teaching paramilitary training, attempting to shoot into an occupied dwelling, and directing the activities of a gang.

Previously, defendant Christopher Brooks, 28, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Luke Leger, 32, and Kent McLellan, 22, each received four years probation after pleading no contest to charges of participating in paramilitary training.

Defense attorneys have told various media outlets that the state’s case began to fall apart when they were able to question a government informant under oath and view a secretly made video of the paramilitary training at Faella’s property.

Prosecutors may well have concluded that the video, their major piece of evidence, didn’t show a crime occurring. The video showed members of the American Front firing guns and making racially charged statements, but their defense attorney argued that it showed no criminal activity, Orlando television station WFTV reported this week.

The informant was paid $40,000 to infiltrate the white supremacy group, which gathered on a 10-acre plot near St. Cloud, Fla., owned by Faella, 39, and his wife, Patricia, 36. Charges against her and defendant Dylan Rettenmaier were dismissed before their trial was scheduled to start on Monday.

At the time of their arrests, prosecutors alleged the American Front members were planning acts of violence and preparing for “an inevitable race war” in which they would kill Jews, immigrants and other minorities. Court documents described a compound that featured fortified gun entrenchments, barbed wire and firing ports cut into the side of the Faellas’ mobile home.

More: Charges Dropped Against Most Defendants in American Front Case

To hear some people talk, you’d think all older Americans were living large on Easy Street. Policy wonks debate whether older people have too many advantages. Every week, it seems as though Washington comes up with another proposal to cut Social Security benefits, restrict Medicare eligibility or scale back veterans’ benefits.

But a new AARP Florida survey reflects a far more sobering reality for Floridians 50 and older, and by extension, older Americans across the nation:

Some 53 percent of Florida voters age 50-plus now say they plan to put off complete retirement, compared to only 8 percent who say they are very likely to retire as planned.

Asked why they are planning to work past what they considered “retirement age,” 62 percent of them said they will need the money.

Older Floridians overwhelmingly say they are banking on Social Security to be there for them when they retire. Some 83 percent say they expect Social Security to provide income for them in retirement.

By contrast, only 48 percent are expecting a pension from their employer, and less than half expect income from stock investments (46 percent), an IRA (38 percent) or a 401(k) retirement account (33 percent).

More: Every Week, It Seems as Though Washington Comes Up With Another Proposal to Cut Social Security Benefits, Restrict Medicare Eligibility or Scale Back Veterans’ Benefits

“Scott Prouty.”

The fellow on the other end of the phone call pronounced his name with hesitation. For nearly a fortnight, he and I had been building a long-distance rapport via private tweets, emails, and phone conversations as we discussed how best to make public the secret video he had shot of Mitt Romney talking at a private, $50,000-per-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida. Now I was almost ready to break the story at Mother Jones. I had verified the video, confirming when and where it had been shot, and my colleagues and I had selected eight clips—including Romney’s now-infamous remarks about the 47 percent of Americans he characterized as “victims” unwilling to “take personal responsibility and care for their lives”—to embed in two articles. We had blurred these clips, at the source’s request, to make it difficult to tell where Romney had uttered these revealing comments, while clearly showing that it was Romney speaking. The goal was to afford the source a modicum of protection.

More MoJo coverage of Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” remarks:

The Story Behind the 47 Percent Video

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters

Romney “47 Percent” Fundraiser Host: Hedge Fund Manager Who Likes Sex Parties

Full Transcript of the Mitt Romney Secret Video

Obama Strikes Back—With “47 Percent”

Who Was at Romney’s “47 Percent” Fundraiser?

The source was justifiably worried about repercussions. Once the video was posted, he might lose his job. He might face criminal prosecution or a civil lawsuit. Months earlier, he had anonymously posted a snippet from the video, in which Romney nonchalantly described the work-camp-like living conditions at a Chinese factory he had visited. The source, offended by these comments, had hoped that the short clip would catch fire in the political-media world. But it hadn’t, partly because its context and origins were unknown. The source’s desire to remain in the shadows had hindered his ability to bring the story to the public.

More: Meet Scott Prouty, the 47 Percent Video Source

One of the most ferocious insects you’ve ever heard of — it’s the size of a quarter and its painful bite has been compared to being knifed — is set to invade Florida this summer.

An adult gallinipper feeding on human blood. CREDIT: UF IFAS / Sean McCann

The Sunshine State, already home to man-eating sinkholes, invading Burmese pythons, swarming sharks, tropical storms and other disasters, can expect to see an explosion of shaggy-haired gallinippers (Psorophora ciliata), a type of giant mosquito, according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida.

Gallinipper eggs hatch after a rainstorm or flood, and the state saw a big jump in the numbers of gallinippers last summer after Tropical Storm Debby dumped its load on Florida. Eggs laid last year could produce a bumper crop of the blood-sucking bugs this summer if Florida sees a soggy rainy season.

More: Monster Mosquitoes Poised to Strike Florida

Just like George Killerman, another blood thirsty asshole from Florida armed himself, got out of his truck, and shot an innocent person:

A man walking his dog was shot in the leg by a disgruntled motorist when the animal lurched into the road, forcing a pickup to stop.

St. Petersburg police are searching for a man who shot Peter Harbachuk, 46, on Friday after his dog got off its leash.

[…]

The 4-year-old dog wiggled her way out of the leash and jolted across the road near 88th Avenue North and Seventh Street North, running out in front of a dark pickup truck.

The truck stopped, and a woman got out and yelled at the couple, St. Petersburg police said.

[…]

Minutes later, the woman got back in the truck and a man stepped out. He had a gun.

“Some dude hopped out and he pointed a gun toward my head,” Harbachuk said. “I said, ‘Hey. This doesn’t have to go down like this.’”

The man lowered the gun a bit, closed his eyes and squeezed the trigger, he said. He and the woman quickly sped away, and police and paramedics arrived soon after.

[…]

Police said the man is 30 to 35 years old, about 5-foot, 10-inches tall, about 200 pounds, clean-shaven and muscular. The woman is 25 to 30 years old, about 5-foot, 5-inches tall, petite and has short, brown hair. [comment: no description of race/skin color is provided]

It’s only a matter of time before the gun fetishists/apologists blame video games, bath salts, Hollywood, Union Thugs, Obama, Benghazi, etc. In the world according to gun fetishists/apologists, gun owners are “law abiding” up to the point where they shoot someone and then they are “crazy”.