Eimers Grand Jury Investigation: FBI Helped State Attorney Booby Trap Her Own Case
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VIDEO: KEY WEST’S LACK OF EMPATHY
IN STARK CONTRAST WITH NY AND FERGUSON
FBI HELPED STATE ATTORNEY BOOBY TRAP HER OWN CASE
“It’s a very painful day for so many New Yorkers,” said New York City’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio last Wednesday following the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict a police officer accused of choking to death an un-armed black man, Eric Garner. A similar decision recently caused violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri over the fatal police shooting of un-armed black teenager, Michael Brown, and three months ago, in Key West, another grand jury cleared 13 Key West police officers of any criminal liability for the death of Charles Eimers despite the fact [and contrary to KWPD’s initial claims] that Mr. Eimers had been initially compliant with police.
Which begs the question: Do grand juries ever indict police officers? The numbers are revealing. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010, the most recent year for which we have data. Grand juries declined to return an indictment in only 11 of them. However, according to Phil Stinson of Bowling Green University, the ratio is radically different when the accused is a police officer. According to Stinson’s research, during the period 2005 through 2011, there were 2,718 officer-involved “justified homicides” whereas only 41 police officers were charged with criminal homicide during that period.
As the conspiracy theory goes, state attorneys, cornered by public opinion to bring cases against police officers, set the case on self-destruct mode.
In Key West, when State Attorney Catherine Vogel presented the Eimers case to the grand jury, she introduced a poisoned pawn into the witness list. His name is Chuck Joyner. He is the superstar expert defense witness for police officers in trouble with the law. Joyner gained national notoriety after publicly defending a Houston police officer who had shot and killed a wheelchair-bound double amputee. Joyner argued that because the one-armed, one-legged man was waving a ballpoint pen there was reasonable justification for the officer to shoot him square in the head.
The story has kafkayen dimensions: Apparently Vogel paid Joyner $4,262.50 to testify against her own prosecution team. Better yet, the whole deal was reportedly set up by the FBI. This week while being deposed by the Eimers family attorneys, Joyner admitted to having been recruited by local FBI agent Patty Thompson [who works at the federal building on Simonton Street] to rescue 13 Key West police officers accused of causing Charles Eimers’ death.
Arguably, the Eimers grand jury set-up topples in cynicism anything that went on in Ferguson under the direction of prosecutor Robert Mcculloch. Scholars have qualified Mcculloch’s “friendly cross-examination” of Defendant officer Darren Wilson as “highly unusual” and “deeply unfair”. Wilson, who was accused of an unjustified shooting of Michael Brown received, they said, “special treatment.” Unlike Catherine Vogel, Mcculloch did not, however, go so far as to hire an expert to torpedo his own case.
Grand jurors are the captive audience of prosecutors. It all happens behind closed doors and can result in granting immunity to police officers without any public scrutiny.
Closed trials, wrote Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, “breed suspicion of prejudice and arbitrariness, which in turn spawns disrespect for law.”
See also “Shadow Trial, Prosecutors in Ferguson violated our right to an open criminal justice system.” an article by Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West published in Slate.
The right to open trials is “a shared right of the accused and the public, the common concern being the assurance of fairness.” [1986 case, Press Enterprise v. Superior Court]
Under the Sixth Amendment, the administration of criminal justice must be kept open to the public. But what is the difference between a grand jury investigation and an unconstitutional secret trial? Where is the line and did Catherine Vogel and Robert Mccolloch cross it?
Well let’s see. What follows is the grand jury’s purpose as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1992 case, U.S. v Williams:
“It is axiomatic that the grand jury sits not to determine guilt or innocence, but to assess whether there is adequate basis for bringing a criminal charge.” Quoting Blackstone, the Court found the grand jury was “only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution.” Never has “the suspect under investigation by the grand jury been thought to have a right to testify or to have exculpatory evidence presented.”
So what was the Monroe County prosecutor doing when presenting not only expert testimony on the merits of the case, but expert testimony in opposition to the prosecution of the accused? Not surprisingly Mr. Joyner is now on KWPD’s witness list for the defense in the civil rights case filed by the Eimers family.
Are these prosecutors violating the U.S. Constitution by conducting defacto secret trials where they manipulate jurors into “acquittal” of police officers? The grand jury system, initially meant to protect defendants against abusive state prosecutors has morphed into a process by which the state legitimizes its practice of “not prosecuting its own”. After all, prosecutors are partners with the police. They depend entirely on officers’ work and testimony in order to fight crime.
“It is my intent,” wrote Citizen Review Board [CRB] member Tom Milone, “to ask the board to send a letter to the US Department of Justice requesting them to investigate the Eimers matter, including the incident itself as well as the investigations done by KWPD, FDLE, Monroe County State Attorney and the Monroe County Medical Examiner.”
KEY WEST LEADERSHIP
While the death of Charles Eimers in the hands of Key West police clearly resembles the tragic fate of Eric Garner in the hands of New York police officers, the reaction of City leaders in New York and Key West couldn’t be further apart.
Both cities are facing civil lawsuits brought by family members of the deceased men. [New York City has been put on notice that the family intends to sue for $75 Million] Yet, while Mayor Cates in Key West has remained completely silent, Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City offers condolences, apologies, and promises of reform including “retraining the entire police force,” and expulsing officers who are “brutal or racist or corrupt.”
“He [Eric Garner] was a father, a husband, a son, and a good man,” said Mayor de Blasio. He may as well have been describing Charles Eimers. “He should be with us,” continues de Blasio, “and is not. It is a simple fact. I spent some time with Ben Garner, Eric’s father, who is in unspeakable pain.”
In Key West, Mayor Cates was not present at Eimers Candlelight Memorial on Thanksgiving night. In fact, the only person who has tried to present public apologies and condolences to Charles Eimers’ family is Key West’s lone “bearded-prophet”, Sloan Bashinsky, who spoke of Eimers during Citizen comments at Tuesday’s Commission meeting. The response given by Commissioners was as dignified as a bar brawl. “You want to pick a fight with me?” asked Commissioner Rossi. “Thank you Commissioner Rossi,“ added Commissioner Tony Yaniz, “for having the stones to say the way I feel.”
Is the image of this “tropical paradise” so fragile and so dear to our tourist-trap aspirations that we can no longer afford basic human decency?
A link to a video showing Tuesday’s Citizen Comments is here.
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To access all Blue Paper article on the death of Charles Eimers click here.
As you read this story think about what you can do to correct this mess. Do you know someone in the Federal government, the news media, someone who cares, or someone else who does? Contact them. Get this story out to national attention. Respect for the rule of law, common humanity and justice have gone missing along with the missing evidence in the Eimers case and it seems most of the officials we elected are part of the cover up. KWPD to FDLE and now the FBI seem to want to protect their own at the expense of the truth. Let’s hope the Department of Justice can honestly step in without being led down the garden path too. It’s time to clean house…
Excellent article, and the last four paragraphs point out what an embarrassment our city government is.
I just watched the entirety of Mr. Bashinsky’s time before the city commissioners on the city’s website replay. The behavior of those city “leaders” was abominable and truly should be an embarrassment to the electorate that put them in office. The total lack of respect and decorum prosecuted toward Mr. Bashinsky, as well as their complete bootlicking toward the KWPD, should provoke outrage and militancy in the citizens of Key West.
Those commissioners and mayor have shown the people of Key West which side they are on; sadly, it is not the people’s.
Whoa! Mayor Cates and Commissioners…. getting a little hot under your collars? Tony used to be FOR the people. Didn’t take long for him to show his true colors as a pig licking, card carrying, bubba system devotee. As for Vogel…Lady, you have a dad, right??? Children???Grandchildren??? Where is your humanity? Rossi…. your public interests in this town should be in and of itself considered a conflict of interest for you to even serve on the Board of Commissioners. Mayor…. you are the worst of all. WHO IS RUNNING THE CITY????????????? Kudos to Commissioners Lopez and Johnston for attending the candlelight vigil. But why would you sit idly by and allow your fellow commissioners to demean and bully a constituents concerns. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Rossi, Tony Yaniz, Mayor Craig Cates, Police Chief Donnie Lee, State Attorney Catherine Vogel and her thing blue line defense team and the legions of Key West residents who love their police just the way they are, evidenced by the applause Rossi got after the tore into me after I dropped the hydrogen bomb during this past Tuesday’s city commission meeting, must all be dialing their favorite florists to send Arnaud and Naja lots of roses today :-).
I told Naja and Arnaud Girard last night, at their home, after they previewed for me a rough draft of the video, that I liked their comparing KW officials to NY City officials, but they should put my comments ahead of the Rossi and Yaniz comments, and they should include all of what I said, so their readers would know all what had set Rossi and Yaniz off. Arnaud and Naja said they would not do it that way.
I am not identified by name in their video. Charles Eimers is not identified by name in the portion of my comments. Someone watching the video, who has not been following the Eimers case, might have a hard time knowing I am speaking about Eimers, and that I am the person Mark Rossi and Tony Yaniz are going after in the video.
Here’s how to get to all of what I said during citizen comments, which set off Rossi and Yaniz.
Open http://www.keywestcity.com, and put the arrow on Online Services in the top menu, and then open Watch TV Live, and then scroll down to the December 2 city commission meeting and click on the “video” link for that meeting, and when the video replay of that meeting comes up and you start it running, advance it to the 1 hour, 35 minute mark.
The commotion after Yaniz has at me, is my attempt from the audience, off the microphone, to be allowed to return to the mike and respond to Yaniz, which the mayor said I could not do. So, from where I was, I asked Tony if he had even watched the 2nd bystander’s video?, and when he said nothing, I said I bet he had not watched it. And he said nothing.
I am speechless about what is happening/has happened in my beloved Key West. I am as SPEECHLESS are every single one of our elected politicians and local government officials who have not said one word regarding any of this – except for 2 Comissioners who have defended “questionable” police action and official reports. If I was on the Key West police force I would be embarassed and disgusted at what is going on, having my good name dragged through the bowels of hell – because the majority of our force is good and deserves our respect and trust. Maybe you disagree – that is MY opinion.
I agree with ZOBOP – what can YOU do to fix this mess? Do you have some connection or know some one who can get this story to the world – make this story go viral? But ZOBOP’s ending comment is the solution “it’s time to clean house”. We can only clean up this nasty mess by replacing those who make these decisions, replacing those who are supposed to be giving direction and leadership to our community. SO – ARE YOU WILLING TO RUN for office? Or do you know a good, honest, intelligent person with integrety who has no self-serving interest who would be a good representative for Key West – convince them to run for Mayor or Commissioner! Working from the inside out is the ONLY solution to this problem.
I nominate Naja as our next Mayor.
Thanks for including at the end of your article a link to citizen comments. Looks to me, booby trap is too kind to Catherine Vogel. Premeditated sabotage.
I continue to be saddened and sickened, disappointed and enraged at the lack of class by, and the outright ignorance of our local elected officials. If I were a betting kind of guy, I would bet MAYBE one or two of our commissioners have actually watched the videos of the cops killing Charles Eimers. But assuming that even that one of the commssioners has watched the videos, where is the outrage? Where are the questions to your other commissioners and the mayor? The police chief, the city manager? Rossi, we know why you’re sticking up for the cops, you have your businesses to protect. I wouldn’t be surprised if you hired some of these cops (off duty, of course) for security at your establishments. You can’t speak ill of those whose services you need to protect YOUR interests. And Tony Yaniz – you were the breath of fresh air on the commission, the guy who called it like it was. Now it would seem you’re calling it the way you are told to call it. You praised Rossi for having the cajones to stick up for the police department – dude, I’m not sure you or ANY of the Commission know what cajones are. None of you have shown you have ANY. Not sure there’s a full set between all of the Commission.
It saddens me that this town is so dependent on the almighty tourist, and his and her $$$$. We seem to be ok with looking the other way when bad things happen in Key West. Most of the “news” sources in this town, hell in this county, seem too intimidated to report the truth. How many muggings and robberies go unreported because we don’t want to take a chance a potential tourist will rethink his destination? Thank God for Naja and Arnaud and thebluepaper.com!
And while Key West is certainly not at the top of the (trash) heap when it comes to public corruption, I will hold those opinions for another letter. In the meantime, our “One Human Family” really means our One Capitalist Family, because what it comes down to is Don’t F_ck With My Money.
Tragically, citizen majorities across the country support their police no matter how violent. That is why both grand and petit juries overwhelmingly acquit them no matter how heinous the crime. Bill DeBlasio and leaders who try to hold their police accountable are the brave leaders who take a higher moral ground than their constituencies. Weaker leaders get a round of applause for supporting the police, or war, or the biggest employer in the area no matter how polluting, as in Louisiana.
They talk about re-educating the police. What our police have learned nationally is that they can beat on anyone they want, to the point of death, and there are no consequences.
This is truly tragic.
Sloan, Your name appears on the screen in the video as soon as you start speaking [did you miss it?] and you are named in the article as the speaker…
No, I did not see my name on the screen early today, and when I went back and watched it again, I still did not see my name as I was speaking. Now, just going back, I see my name at the top, just as I start to speak – sorry.
It was the video you and Arnuad put together, which I found a bit confusing for someone not familiar with the case, not your article. Much of what I said, which is not included in your video, but is included in the city’s video, was more incendiary than what you used of what I said.
Maybe my dragging God into it, not in your video, was more than Mark Rossi and Tony Yaniz could bear :-), and maybe they would have said nothing, if I had not dragged God into it? 🙂 In my own article on it today at http://www.goodmorningkeywest.com, I use an email from a very old and good friend, “The Shadow”, who often lives in his van when he’s in Key West, in which he wrote:
“You scared the hell out of yaniz and Rossi because they are aware of Being implicated in this murder of Charles Eimers I wish I had the dates of the Interviews of lee and at a later date with cates public radio threats to the homeless with cates saying to bill Becker that the homeless issue is a problem and he will continue to do what they are doing to rid key west of homeless people and we will take the hits ( lawsuits ) because key west has a lot of money and it’s appalling to realize how misinformed the general public is and how they applaud the k w p d for there actions but they will pay in many different ways.”
Rossi, Yaniz, Cates,and the rest of the city’s elected officials are responsible for what their police do when they are on the job being policemen. No way I see any of the seven elected city officials copping to being responsible for the death of Charles Eimers, so they have to defend their police, to defend themselves, just as “The Shadow” wrote to me.
Naja, for mayor!, as per Island Girl’s comment. That would cause a great deal of insomnia in many households in Key West :-). Better, you be elected Queen. Then, you are the BOSS of everybody and everything :-). The mayor is but one of seven talking heads with no power over the other talking heads. Did I only imagine the Hydra has seven heads?
Your and my poor Island Girl friend, speechless. I would like to be there when she’s speechless :-), as, I imagine would a lot of people you and I know :-).
I learned what Key West was really like during the first month I lived on the street here, starting late 2000. As I wrote to someone a bit ago, “Being broke in Key West taught me things about this city not being broke here can’t be learned, and things about humanity, and about me. Heap fun. I recommend it to all politicians, religious people, capitalists, law enforcement officers, priests … 🙂 flat
Bravo Sloan
You folks might wish to peruse the “Naja for Queen, er, Mayor of Key West, and other closely and somewhat distantly related blue movies” post today, 12/6/2014, at http://www.goodmorningkeywest.com.
This is why Vogel protected the police with the professional witness.
The police allover the state would retaliate against the court industry if the Key West police involved in the murder were charged.
How would they retaliate ?? Police across the state would stop issuing summonses and stop making arrest for non violent offences.This would empty the courthouses, the lawyer offices and the courts.
It would hurt the money making law industry.This is the reason why police are seldom arrested .
If Vogel were to charge the police,she would be sitting around a vacant prosecutors office for the next year or so.
I forgot to say in my opinion!!
Let’s blow this thing wide open. Make it world news. They’ve been able to keep things unusually quiet. If Charles Eimers was black do you think this would be unheard of to most the world. No every news station would have be on location that day. They’ve been able to deceive because nobody is paying attention because they don’t know. Let’s inform the world of the truth. Then watch them cower in their seat like Donnie.
Body building and steroid use have taken hold in some police departments. ‘Young Turks’ within a para-military organization, possessing a predisposition towards aggression and the use of force; are in some cases out of control because they lack rigorous standards, training and appropriate supervision. Absent effective leadership, these officers are significantly more likely to participate in acts of ‘police brutality’.
Any police officer allowed to develop a corrupted mind set, with its accompanying illegal tendencies and bad habits, can pose a lethal threat to those they are paid to protect and serve.
Self-restraint, common sense and reasonable methods of applying force appear to be attributes no longer adhered to nor reinforced in some law-enforcement circles.
State Attorneys, investigators and prosecutors can conceal their clandestine behavior; devoid of the transparency required in a free society. Secretive meetings and covert operations have placed a dagger into the heart of ‘lady justice’.
Coordinated attempts to shield and protect the criminal excesses of a rogue police officer and department through the destruction, manipulation and misrepresentation of evidence to a ‘grand jury’; desecrates the blood sacrifices made to preserve our ‘Constitution’.
The aforementioned government entities were never intended to wield such power and unbridled authority. Power corrupts…Absolute power, corrupts absolutely…
Do we want these flawed and faulted human beings rendering omnipotent verdicts from on high???
‘Prosecutorial Discretion’ was never meant to be interpreted as a means of giving police officers an edge when assessing criminal misconduct. They have no legal authority to injure or kill an innocent human being. Violations of this basic constitutional tenant, must face stern and immediate consequences. The basis of our entire legal system is founded upon a “Jury Trial”…
Heavily armed individuals with a badge, must be held to the highest standards of accountability when they engage in violent conduct that ‘takes life’ or harms any human being, especially, an ‘Innocent American Citizen’.
Exactly, Rick.
I imagine prosecutors also are reluctant to prosecute police officers, because they fear for their chances in the next election. Prosecutors, who do not fear not getting reelected, fear for their own lives, and the lives of their loved ones. Prosecutors not hindered by any of that, if there are such prosecutors, are deterred because they know it’s just about impossible to get a jury to convict a police officer of a crime such as the Eimers case and in NY City and Ferguson. Meaning, the reason cops get away with it, if they wish to be criminals, is the public won’t convict them.
Several times last night, after sleep periods, I thought about Tom Milone, Vice-Chairman of the Key West Citizens (Police) Review Board being quoted recently (or did I just dream he was quoted?) as saying he was going to ask the CRB to try to get the US Department of Justice to investigate the Eimers case. Perhaps such a request coming from the CRB, as opposed to from the blue paper or the Horan law firm, would be more acceptable to DOJ.
Meanwhile, The people who voted for Mayor Craig Cates or Margaret Romero in this year’s mayor’s race, who are upset with how the city and the mayor and city commissioners and Vogel and so forth are dealing with the Eimers case, are, in my opinion, talking out of both sides of their mouths, they are hypocrites, and they are causing two different currents to run in the spirit, and that is seriously getting in the way of this case going the way it needs to go.
I told Naja yesterday that it would be a good idea for her to tell her readers, who fit that two-currents profile, who are expressing their displeasure about how the Eimers case is being handled by the city and police department in comments under blue paper articles on the Eimers case, to submit confessions to the blue paper, with their real names attached, and the blue paper publishes those confessions in plain view, and that will mitigate the karma they created by voting for Cates or Romero, who have backed the police all the way in the Eimers case. I also told Naja, if she had voted for Cates or Romero, she should do the same thing.
Not that I say anyone should have voted for me in that race. People who didn’t want to vote for me simply could have not voted in that race. But you know how most people view not voting vs. voting for the lesser of evils. Well, I can tell you that voting for evil is voting for evil. Better not to vote, if evil are your choices if you do vote.
When I came out of Jack Flats Sports Bar a last night, after Alabama had vanquished Missouri in the SEC Championship, the Christmas parade had just reached that part of Duval Street, and Mayor Cates and his wife, and a couple of other people were in a nice convertible, behind 4 or 5 police cruisers with their blue lights flashing. Cates seemed to be having a ball, I hope he was. But I would not have a ball doing that; I would be having a horrible time. I detest that kind of stuff, hide from parades, award ceremonies, unless the angels make me attend.
But that’s kinda beside the point, isn’t it? There is Cates being escorted by those police cruisers, and there are cops on their feet at every intersection, and I’m thinking about city cops murdering Charles Eimers, while I doubt Cates even thought about Eimers during the parade. I doubt anyone in the parade, or any people lining Duval Street, and before that Truman Avenue, thought about Eimers.
The Eimers case appears to be a non-issue for most people in Key West. That, and it seems a lot of people here never heard of Charles Eimers, or of what happened to him here, which indicates the Citizen and the blue paper are not being read by a whole lot of people who live here.
Tom Milone, Vice-Chairman of the Key West Citizen (Police) Review Board, emailed me earlier tonight:
“The Eimers case will be on the December 17th CRB meeting agenda as an action item.”
That was in reply to my having emailed Tom:
“When are you planning to bring this up with the CRB? Will you have seen to it, by then, that the Executive Director has furnished each CRB member with the 2nd bystander’s video and the video of Police Chief Donie Lee’s deposition?
“I talked to imaginary beings again today, actually the CRB members, as if I was at a CRB meeting. I asked them if any of them had not already seen those two videos, before that CRB meeting. And, I imagined one, or two, said no, and I said they should resign from the CRB.
“Here are links to the relevant blue paper articles, which contain You Tube videos for the 2nd bystander’s video and Lee’s deposition.
“EIMERS DEATH-IN-CUSTODY UPDATE: Missing Video Surfaces
“NOWHERE TO RUN: NEW VIDEO DEVASTATING TO KWPD CREDIBILITY
“I think it’s legal under the Florida Sunshine Law, for you to give the Executive Director those links, if he does not already have them, and suggest he furnish the links to the other CRB members, if they don’t already have them, before the CRB meeting where you intend to bring up asking the US Department of Justice to investigate the Eimers case.
“Up you guys go, into the wild blue yonder :-), but it will feel like plunging straight into hell, if it is done right :-). You know what plunging straight into hell is, from having been plunged there by local teenage thugs, and then being dragged through the tedious, drawn out prosecution of those thugs, in which plenty off efforts were made by fine, upstanding, law-abiding, God-fearing, Key West citizens to get the thugs turned lose.
“Chow maim :-).
“Sloan”
Tom wants the CRB to ask the US Department of Justice to investigate the Eimers case.
Sloan, that was reported in our article above.
Yes, and sorry – when I wrote about that at http://www.goodmorningkeywest.com, I was fuzzy where I’d read Tom was going to try to get DOJ involved..
Received this by email yesterday from one of your local blue paper readers:
Subject: under-reported police killings
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-of-police-killings-are-uncounted-in-federal-statistics-1417577504
I replied:
I can’t get into this Wall Street Journal article past the lead sentence, without subscribing to the Journal.
I can’t adequately express my puzzlement over blue paper readers’ frenzy about cops killing civilians away from Key West, which I hardly think is wonderful home of the free and land of the brave patriotism, when the same blue paper readers are not expressing frenzy over how Key West voters voted in this year’s mayor’s election.
Who did you vote for in the mayor’s race? If you voted for either Mayor Cates or Margaret Romero, what moral standing to you have now to complain about what the cops did to Eimers? If you voted for Cates or Romero, you became an accomplice in that crime. As did 5,877 people in Key West, according to the Supervisor of Elections Office. I think that was around a 30 percent registered voter turnout. If so, and if my “old math” is okay, that probably translates to about 19,500 registered voters who would have voted for Cates or Romero in a 100-percent voter turnout.
You can claim your right to secret ballot. You can claim your right to not incriminate yourself. You can claim you were not aware of what the cops had done to Eimers. And the angels will shake their heads. As will they shake their heads, if you don’t tell me how you voted in the mayor’s race, or that you did not vote. Or, you can make that disclosure under the current blue paper article; here’s that link:
Eimers Grand Jury Investigation: FBI Helped State Attorney Booby Trap Her Own Case
At least you put your real name on your comments to blue paper articles about the Eimers case. Blue paper readers who are using alias names with their comments to Eimers case articles also are causing the angels to shake their heads.
A mainland amiga messaged me on Facebook today:
Jacqueline Bush-Holcomb
When do the protests start in Key Weird?
Sloan Bashinsky
I would be surprised to see much of a turnout, if someone did organize a public protest against the cops killing Charles Eimers. Just look at how many “protesters” in the blue paper use phony names. Just look at how many people in Key West voted for either Mayor Cates or Margaret Romero in the recent election, knowing Cates and Romero were backing the cops and demonstrating no remorse nor apologizing to the Eimers children. Just look at how many people spoke during citizen comments at city commission meetings, one, me, as far as I know, against what the mayor and city commissioners’ cops did to Charles Eimers. Oh, stupid me. Your question was sarcastic .”
Fortunately, or unfortunately, the way indeed is steep, and the gate narrow, and few enter therein; many are called, but few are chosen; the work is great and the laborers are few.
Also fortunately, or unfortunately, there is karma, and there is repentance, and the religious people have got it all wrong :-).
Sloan
Do the Key West Police officers even know the difference between a restraining order and an eviction. How dumb have they become?