First the story about the Sheriff’s Association – The Grady Judd part follows….
(Via GWP) The Florida Sheriff’s Association agreed earlier this week to support the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law.   The Ledger reported:
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, the new president of the association, announced Friday that members agreed earlier this week without opposition to support the law “as currently written.”
“Our current judicial system is comprised of multiple checks and balances to ensure fair and equitable application of all laws, including ‘stand your ground,’” Judd said in a prepared statement.
When the National Rifle Association-backed law was approved in 2005, the association remained neutral on the issue.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Fort Walton Beach Republican who supports “stand your ground” and whose subcommittee will hold a hearing on the law, called it enlightening that a group that “has traditionally been tepid” on the law now “recognizes its value.”
“I think they recognize that Florida is a safer place when our citizens don’t have a duty to retreat and run,” Gaetz said.
The voice vote Tuesday came with 57 of the state’s sheriffs in attendance.
The sheriffs support the law as written.
Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law

 A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity, and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.   F.S. §776.013(3)

Grady JuddThe new head of the Florida Sheriff’s Association is non other than Grady Judd.   As far as constitutional law enforcement go, well, he takes those matters quite seriously.

Back in the holiday season of 2010

[…]  A man in Colorado a couple of months ago published a book called The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure, and he didn’t get arrested for it, and this made Grady Judd mad.
So the sheriff of Polk County, whose job is to protect and serve the roughly 500,000 people who live in the mostly agricultural area between Tampa and Orlando, had one of his undercover detectives contact Phillip Greaves of Pueblo, Colo., and ask to buy his book. Greaves sent a signed copy back to Polk, where Judd got a search warrant, and then sent two of his men 1,856 miles to arrest him the week before Christmas.  (link)

But perhaps Judd Grady’s most famous line was to the associated press after his officers shot and killed Angilo Freeland.   October 2006:

[…]  Oct. 14, 2006 – It all began with a simple traffic stop. Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Doug Speirs pulled over Angilo Freeland just before noon on Sept. 28 for speeding along an avenue in Lakeland, Fla. But when Speirs asked for Freeland’s driver’s license, Freeland, 27, produced a dubious-looking state ID card. Would he have to go to jail for not having a valid license? he asked the deputy, according to authorities. Moments later, Freeland fled into a wooded area beside the road.
Deputy Speirs radioed for backup, and soon Deputy Matt Williams arrived with his dog Diogi.   The three set off into the woods. Freeland apparently hid behind the exposed roots of a fallen oak, according to dispatch tapes and a law-enforcement account given to The Tampa Tribune.
Catching his pursuers by surprise, Freeland shot and killed the police dog, then quickly pumped Deputy Williams full of bullets, one of which penetrated his spine. Freeland then shot Deputy Williams twice more in the head at point-blank range.
[…]  Deputy Speirs moved toward the gunfire. “I’m coming to you,” he told Williams over the radio, according to the Tampa Tribune report. Then Freeland appeared over a ridge and fired at him. Though Speirs managed to shoot back, he was wounded in the leg during the exchange. “I’ve been hit, too,” he told the dispatcher.
Now authorities mounted a massive manhunt, including 500 officers, every available police dog, a SWAT tank and a helicopter. They soon found Deputy Williams dead, and his gun and ammunition missing.
For the rest of the day and overnight, authorities scoured the woods for Freeland. Not until the next morning did a 10-person SWAT team finally corner him. He was hunkered down under another fallen oak, not far from where he’d killed the deputy.
When the cops spotted a gun in Freeland’s hand—Williams’s .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol—they opened fire on him. And plenty of it: 110 bullets in all, 68 of which hit him.

The Black Grievance Industry stepped in lead by non other than the Florida Civil Rights Association (FRCA), and, wait for it……..  Yep,  J Willy David III

[…] Race may have been a factor, the FCRA argues; Freeland was black, while most of the officers were white.

“The police tactics and the force used in the manhunt of a black man … is profoundly disturbing and raises questions that are too important to be dismissed,”

…… says J. Willie David III, FCRA’s president. The group is especially critical of certain comments made by Polk County authorities in the aftermath of Freeland’s death.  (link)

So the Associated Press and other reporters questioned Sheriff Grady Judd, asking him why his officers shot Freeland 68 times?   Judd replied:

“I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that’s all the ammunition they had, or they would have shot him more”   – Sheriff Grady Judd (link)

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