Comment by duxup
8 hours ago
What is wild about this is the cops showed up, held the guys, they showed them their letter that they were authorized and the cops called the references on the letter and everyone was fine.
Then the Sheriff showed up and insisted they be arrested...
Everything was fine until one person who didn't get it, who happened to be in charge, showed up.
Oh I'm sure the sheriff got it, he just wanted to get in a pissing match with the people who signed the letter.
The sheriff felt like he had "egg on his face", and responded like a child.
Per the legal system, arrested is probably safe course of action until they could verify the authenticity of the letter. It's really the ensuing events after that were abysmally stupid.
They did verify the authenticity. The police won't launch a full investigation for every single possibility and doing so would be a colossal waste of resources. They are, in fact, allowed to make some calls and be satisfied at that point that the letter is authentic without investigating every single fraudulent possibility.
So you read this:
> the cops showed up, held the guys
> they showed them their letter that they were authorized
> the cops called the references on the letter
> Then the Sheriff showed up and insisted they be arrested...
and your response is:
> Per the legal system, arrested is probably safe course of action until they could verify the authenticity of the letter.
?
It's the irresistible taste of boot.
If they know who they are, what's the point? You can track them down later and throw on ~fraud charges if the letter ends up fake.
>When Sheriff Leonard arrived, the tone suddenly changed. He said the Dallas County Courthouse was under his jurisdiction and he hadn’t authorized any such intrusion.
Reading only ever so slightly between the lines, it's clear that he probably did get it, just that he either wanted to swing his dick around for its own sake, or, more likely it seems from the dedcription in the article, resented that he was kept out of the loop on "his turf".