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   From: Skeeterweed@proton.me   
      
   In article , nowomr@protonmail.com says...   
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   > Fortunately, there's a well-armed citizenry ready to shoot to kill if they   
   > believe they are endangered by corrupt Dago Desantis' violent anti-vaxx   
   > criminal recruits.)   
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   > Ron DeSantis, who is expected to launch his campaign for the 2024   
   > Republican presidential nomination this week, launched the program to   
   > attract officers frustrated by Covid-19 mandates.   
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   > Florida   
   > DeSantis's $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to   
   > Florida   
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   > Governor?s incentive scheme recruits officers with history of excessive   
   > violence or who have been arrested since signing up   
   > Richard Luscombe in Miami   
   > @richlusc   
   > Mon 22 May 2023 20.39 BST   
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   > Numerous police officers lured to new jobs in Florida with cash from   
   > Governor Ron DeSantis?s flagship law enforcement relocation program have   
   > histories of excessive violence or have been arrested for crimes including   
   > kidnapping and murder since signing up, a study of state documents has   
   > found.   
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   > DeSantis, who is expected to launch his campaign for the 2024 Republican   
   > presidential nomination this week, has spent more than $13.5m to date on   
   > the recruitment bonus program, which he touted in 2021 as an incentive to   
   > officers in other states frustrated by Covid-19 vaccination mandates.   
   > Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7,   
   > "individual freedom," also dubbed the "stop woke" bill during a news   
   > conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens,   
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   > ?This will go a long way to ensuring we can have the best and the   
   > brightest filling our law enforcement ranks,? Florida?s Republican   
   > attorney general, Ashley Moody, said in April last year as DeSantis   
   > announced one-time $5,000 bonuses for new recruits.   
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   > However, among the almost 600 officers who moved to Florida and received   
   > the bonus ? or were recruited in state ? are a sizable number who either   
   > arrived with a range of complaints against them, or have since accrued   
   > criminal charges, the online media outlet Daily Dot has discovered.   
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   > They include a former trainee deputy with the Escambia county sheriff?s   
   > office charged with murdering her husband; an officer with the Miramar   
   > police department fired for domestic battery and kidnapping; and a former   
   > member of the New York police department (NYPD) who was hired by the Palm   
   > Beach police department having once been accused of an improper sexual   
   > proposition.   
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   > That officer, named by the Daily Dot as Daniel Meblin, was also part of a   
   > $160,000 settlement by the NYPD for violence at a 2020 protest against the   
   > deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in which officers were accused   
   > of beating Black males without provocation.   
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   > A Palm Beach police spokesperson told the Daily Dot that Meblin ? who had   
   > complaints against him including abuse of authority and sexually   
   > propositioning a teenager ? had disclosed his background during the hiring   
   > process, according to the NYPD watchdog 50-a.org.   
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   > He has been an ?exemplary? officer since he was hired in October 2022, the   
   > same month he left the NYPD, the spokesperson said, while denying a   
   > request to allow Meblin to be interviewed.   
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   > The Daily Dot compiled its report from state records it obtained from the   
   > Florida department of economic opportunity through a Freedom of   
   > Information Act request. The undated document lists payments of more than   
   > $8.8m split between 1,310 newly hired officers, with most receiving   
   > $6,693.44 from the signing-on and additional bonuses.   
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   > In a press release earlier this month, DeSantis announced the program had   
   > since grown to more than 2,000 officers, with a parallel rise in cost to   
   > more than $13.5m.   
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   > ?To date, 595 law enforcement recruits from 49 states and US territories   
   > have relocated to Florida, including more than 215 recruits from   
   > California, Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania,? the statement said.   
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   > For its report, the Daily Dot matched information from the 50-a and NYPD   
   > databases, as well as published media reports, to officers? names listed   
   > by the state.   
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   > It says it uncovered ?an exodus? of officers to Florida law enforcement   
   > agencies from the NYPD in the wake of a backlash against the department   
   > for its brutal handling of racial justice protests in 2020 after the   
   > murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.   
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   > Among them were at least two dozen officers whose names matched those on   
   > the NYPD?s civilian complaint review board database, including some who,   
   > according to those complaints, ?unlawfully pepper sprayed, assaulted, and   
   > pointed their firearms at suspects, as well as used chokeholds and   
   > offensive language regarding race and ethnicity?.   
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   > A civil rights lawsuit filed in 2018 against former NYPD sergeant Haitham   
   > Hussameldin alleged the officer used physical violence against a teenager   
   > on her way to school. Hussameldin, now employed by Florida?s Manapalan   
   > police department, accrued six formal complaints, including ?multiple   
   > allegations of abuse of authority and overuse of physical force? in New   
   > York, the Daily Dot said. All the complaints were withdrawn or   
   > unsubstantiated.   
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   > Another former New York officer now employed in Florida was involved in   
   > two deaths, one of which led to a $100,000 civil settlement, the Daily Dot   
   > reported. And in October 2022, the Apopka police department hired as an   
   > officer Justin Burgos, 19, the son of a retired NYPD deputy inspector, who   
   > a year earlier was charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving   
   > and obstruction of governmental administration for driving his car into   
   > protesters in Manhattan calling for the firing of an officer accused of   
   > beating a Black suspect.   
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   > None of the police agencies contacted for comment responded, other than   
   > the Palm Beach department, the Daily Dot reported. DeSantis?s office did   
   > not return a request for comment from the Guardian.   
      
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