re: #157 jaunte

Thomas dissents because there might be something bad in there and he’s fully corrupt.

How about, his wife Ginni’s into it up to her eyeballs and there’s probably something in those tranches of documents which indicate it.

Oh, in other news, the tiny town of Brookside, AL, population 1,253 has somewhere between nine and 16 police officers (it’s unknown) but half of its funding since 2018 has come from ratcheting up the number of traffic citations it’s issued.

Ramon Perez came to court last month ready to fight the tickets he’d been handed by Brookside police, including one for rolling through a stop sign and another for driving 48 mph in a 40 zone.

He swore he’d seen the cop from a distance and was careful as he braked.

“I saw him and we looked eye to eye,” the Chelsea business owner said. “There’s no way I was going to run that stop sign.”

When he got to court Dec. 2, he saw scores of people just like him lining up to stand before Judge Jim Wooten, complaining of penny-ante “crimes” and harassment by officers. He saw so many people trying to park in the grassy field outside the municipal building that police had to direct traffic.

He figured there was no point.

“I saw the same attitude in every officer and every person,” he said. “That’s why I hesitated to fight it. They were doing the same thing to every person that was there. They own the town.”

Perez, it appears, was right.

al.com

Oh, and apparently this teeny tiny town has TWO police dogs, to wit:

(I found this when I went to look for the police department, which has apparently nuked its Facebook. I made sure to drop a link to the AL dot com article and point out that Brookside has 1,253 people in it.)