One of the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department investigators who worked closely with the Virginia State Police tactical teams said today that the three fatigue-clad state troopers I overheard bragging about scaring county residents and referring to local police officers as "Barney Fifes" were not members of the tactical teams.
All state troopers assigned to Floyd County during the weeklong search for Steven Dale Branscome, accused of shooting at Virginia State Trooper after a chase that ended in West Virginia, wore fatigues but not all were members of the force’s tactical teams.
I have confirmed that the three officers I overheard were not members of the tactical teams.
My apologies to the tactical teams for incorrectly identifying the officers as members of their units. I’m glad to hear they were more professional than the officers I encountered on that day in the Blue Ridge Resturant.
The older I get the more I lean to a libertarian way of life. Too late, though. So, the dictionary sits beside my computer but I refuse to look at it until today. Yep, everybody spells agitator differently than I do but today I will spell it correctly after opening Webster’s book. There are some bad apples in every group because we are all human. I’m sure I am a bad apple at least once a week and some would say more. And if I look deep into my heart I would probably call myself an agitator on occasions. And I would even bet there are some bad apples in the Sheriff’s office even though it’s hard to believe. The thing I worry about is the Task Force of the combined counties and law enforcement. I’ve seen Task Forces break up over minor disputes such as these. It’s a little like the coal field strikes. The troopers there could not participate because they knew the folks would take it out on them after the others left. Very few people like a large number of law enforcement invading their towns. I would never had posted except someone sent me the website. I never even thought of you being in the Village Green. I had no idea what a Blue Ridge Muse was. And for some folks complaining about my ID, this will be my last posting even though most of the writings are quite interesting. Regards to all.
Checkmate:
Thanks for the apology but it wasn’t necessary. You have every right to defend your husband and members of the tact team. We appreciated their work. I’m sorry that a few officers wandered off the reservation but I imagine that with that many in the county at one time the odds favored having some bad applies.
For the record, I’m not a "liberal agitator." I’m a "libertarian agitator." 🙂
Unfortunately, I just had to remove two comments because they failed to heed my warning that we would no longer allow people to throw out insults without using their full names. Checkmate has a legitimate reason for using a screen name because of her husband’s professions. The two comments I had to remove tonight claimed no such reasons.
Our issue here was with a few state police officers who decided to insult our county sheriff’s department and our home. That’s the issue. If you want to throw brickbats, do so with your real names. If you don’t follow our rules, your posts will be deleted and your IP address will be placed on our ban list.
This is my sandbox and when you play in it you play by my rules. If you can’t follow those rules, please play somewhere else.