User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Grady Judd

Grady Judd is the Sheriff in Lakeland, Polk County, Florida who has been reelected x time. Judd "has a history of news-making comments."

Controversies
Judd urges "his constituents to carry firearms." He has brings many cases regarding "illegal sexually deviant acts" that are "easily dismissed." He threatened "Apple CEO Tim Cook if the company didn't cooperate with Judd's attempt to unlock two suspects' iPhones in a murder investigation."

Contagious shooting
In 2006, Sheriff Judd told the Orlando Sentinel that,

""You have to understand, [Angilo Freeland] had already shot and killed a deputy, he had already shot and killed a K-9, and he shot and injured another deputy. Quite frankly, we weren’t taking any chances. That’s all the bullets we had or we would have shot him more” and “I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that’s all the ammunition they had.""

- Sheriff Grady Judd 2006

Judd defends contagious shooting, in which one police officer or infantryman firing on a target can induce others to begin shooting, often without knowing the reason for shooting.

Constitutional rights violations
According to an 2011 interview First Amendment attorney Larry Walters said, Judd, "has a real hostility toward sexual expression. Anything erotic he assumes to be illegal."

Hurricane Irma 2017
As Hurricane Irma—"of the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic"—approached Florida, Sheriff Judd tweets "warning anyone with an arrest warrant to stay away from shelters" or "we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail."