This Florida Story is intriguing. I am including a few stories and a couple opinions. I say this has a lot of bearing in the social attitudes out there.

 And then there was this article

Thousands of mourners expected at funeral for Polk deputy

LAKELAND, Florida (AP) — Thousands of mourners are expected at the funeral tomorrow of a Polk County deputy slain alongside his canine partner.

The funeral for Matt Williams and his police dog Diogi is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at Victory Church in North Lakeland.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says authorities looked for the biggest church in the city.

Diogi will be cremated, and his remains will be interred with Williams at Auburndale Cemetery.

They were killed Thursday in Lakeland. SWAT team members fatally shot Angilo Freeland — who allegedly fatally shot Williams after being pulled over for speeding — on Friday after an extensive manhunt.

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If you notice, these last 2 are both Associated Press Stories

Now I am going to post 2 opinions and finish with my own opinion so please bear with me.

Just when I thought people could not get more unreasonable and strange, I was once again surprised and sickened after the manhunt in Polk County, Fla., that occurred only days ago.
The suspect in this case is still unidentified, despite the fact that the police already found and shot him to death.
It seems that on Thursday at around 11:45 a.m., the man was pulled over for a routine speeding offense. He explained to the police officer that he had no driver's license but did have a Florida identification card.
The officer returned to his car several times during the traffic stop, and the suspect continued asking, "Are you going to put me in jail?" This behavior alarmed the officer, who called for backup just in case the situation got hairy.
It was at this point that the suspect jumped out of his car and ran into the nearby woods. As soon as the backup arrived, the two officers and a dog went into the woods about 300 yards before being covered in a burst of gunfire.
One of the officers was killed.
The manhunt that ensued had to cover about 150 acres of thick forest, so the police had their work cut out for them.
On Friday, the man was found after having dug himself under a formation of oak tree roots and covering himself with brush. Upon realizing that they were standing right on top of the man, officers demanded to see both his hands. He only showed them one hand. When they removed a cover from his other hand, they saw a pistol and shot him multiple times, killing him instantly.
This is a beautiful example of poetic justice in my book, no matter how I look at it. This police officer had a wife and children, and was killed on his wife's birthday because he pulled over a man for speeding.
I wish they could have shot the suspect a few times for fun just for being such a sick excuse for a human being and murdering someone like that.
The police are having a hard time identifying who the suspect was because they have no way of really gaining information on him. The ridiculous thing is that I have seen people getting up in arms about the fact that the police shot a man they could not even identify.
It seems to me that they don't need to identify him. They identified him as a cop killer who was hiding under a bunch of weeds with a gun. That is all the identifying I would have to do before I pumped off a few rounds at him.
The police in this situation were dealing with a dangerous murderer and acted accordingly, and yet some people would dare chastise them.
It is often that I agree with police, coming from a generation that was taught to distrust them. But in this case, we have a man who got killed and was taken from his family because he tried to do his job.
So next time a police officer pulls you over and he/she seems a bit aggressive or suspicious of you, think about the fact that people are getting shot over speeding tickets nowadays. I reckon I would be a little suspicious of the driver behind that wheel, too.

By Darin Kordyak Columnist

Modern day lynching in Florida: Racist cops shot suspect 68 times


By Noble Johns

LAKELAND, Florida (BNW) – It was no more than a modern day lynching when five hundred racist cops went on a death hunt for a suspected cop killer. When they found him hiding under a fallen tree, instead of giving him the opportunity to surrender, they riddled his body with bullets like they did so many innocent Blacks during the era of lynching in the South.

During a news conference last week, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the God will judge this Nigger, and if he calls himself God, he certainly did. What makes this lynching so horrendous and different is that Black cops were part of the lynch mob.

Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy, according to an autopsy and records released by the sheriff's office Saturday.

Angilo Freeland — who was suspected of fatally shooting the deputy after being pulled over for speeding Thursday — was hit 68 times by the SWAT team members' shots, the examination showed.

He also was suspected of wounding a deputy and killing a police dog.

Freeland's death ended a nearly 24-hour manhunt that forced schools to lock down and families to stay indoors as about 500 officers scoured the woods.

The wounded deputy had pulled Freeland over for speeding and became suspicious of his identification. The suspect got nervous and bolted into the woods, officials said.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the number of shots fired because it was a death hunt for a Nigger anyway did not concern him.

"You have to understand, he had already shot and killed a deputy, he had already shot and killed a K-9 and he shot and injured another deputy," Judd said by phone Saturday. "Quite frankly, we weren't taking any chances."

Ten SWAT officers surrounded Freeland on Friday as he hid beneath brush and a fallen tree in a rural area. Authorities say he raised the gun belonging to the deputy he had killed, prompting nine officers to fire.

"I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that's all the ammunition they had," Judd said. "We were not going to take any chance of him shooting back."

The SWAT officers who shot Freeland have been placed on paid administrative leave, standard procedure in all police shootings.

Also released Saturday were autopsy results for the deputy, Vernon Matthew Williams, 39, which showed he had been shot eight times. He was not wearing a protective vest, but shots hit him in his right leg and behind his right ear, among other places.

Diogi, his German shepherd police dog, was also killed. The dog had been shot once in the chest.

Authorities said deputy sheriff Doug Speirs, also 39, was fired at several times and shot once in the leg. A sergeant and an officer from the Lakeland Police Department were also fired at, authorities said.

Stopped for speeding

It all started because of a trumped up traffic stop. That’s how the racist cops operate in trying and stop suspected drug dealer. They will terrorize the whole Black community just to try and stop a few drug dealers.

Speirs pulled the suspect over about 11:45 a.m. for speeding, Judd said. The suspect told Speirs he had a Florida identification card but no driver's license. He was described as a black male, 6-feet-tall, wearing a white or light khaki T-shirt and dark pants and having a "Jamaican" accent.

Police said Friday they shot and killed a suspected cop killer who was armed and who failed to raise both hands when Florida SWAT officers stumbled upon him hiding in thick brush.

The suspect, on the run since Thursday afternoon, had dug under a fallen oak tree and covered himself with brush, Judd said, only about 75 yards from where police said he killed a sheriff's deputy. (Watch the sheriff describe how the suspect was killed -- 2:50)

"I was standing on top of him before I ever saw him," Judd said a SWAT team member told him.

The SWAT team members ordered the suspect to show his hands and he made only one hand visible, the sheriff said. When SWAT officers removed a cloth over the man's other hand they saw a weapon and began shooting.

"SWAT team members shot and killed the man who killed our deputy," Judd said, adding that the man was shot "numerous times."

"The killer chose his end. He chose his end because he didn't show both hands," the sheriff said.

Judd said police found a 45-caliber handgun believed to have been taken from the dead sheriff's deputy.

Judd said police still have not been able to establish the identity of the man who was shot, but expressed confidence that he was their suspect in Thursday's traffic stop that resulted in the death of Deputy Vernon Matthew "Matt" Williams and his police dog "Diogi."

Judd said, "It's still a sad day for law enforcement and certainly for the sheriff's office."

"We have no idea whether or not [the suspect] shot [at police] but we saw him and we saw the gun," Judd said. "We don't have the details and we shot numerous times."

Hundreds of police were swarming "through every square inch" of thickly overgrown Florida woods Friday before the announcement. (Watch how identifying the suspect has become challenging

Police insisted they would not rest until they captured the man, whom they suspect of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another during a routine traffic stop. They thought he was involved in a narcotics ring.

Williams was a 12-year veteran of the department.

Deputy Doug Speirs was shot in the leg and is expected to make a full recovery. He was treated and released at a hospital.

Judd said the suspect's body would be examined during an autopsy.
'Significant' leads; suspect 'armed and dangerous'

Before the suspect was shot Friday, Judd said, "We've run dozens of leads through the night. He's armed, we know he's very dangerous." He said police have "significant investigative leads."

Judd said police had been scouring between 75 and 150 acres of woods.

"It is so thick in that particular area you could literally walk by him close enough to touch him and not be able to see him," the sheriff said.

A $40,000 reward had been offered for information on the suspect.

"We've also developed through witnesses that his name is possibly Alex or Andrew Cloxton or Angleo Freeland," Judd said. "We know that he has friends and associates in Polk County." They believe he is from the Miami area.

The man is suspected of shooting the two sheriff's deputies, one fatally, and killing a police dog after being pulled over for speeding on Thursday, the sheriff said. (Watch sheriff vow: "We will find him"

During the traffic stop, Speirs went back to his car and returned several times to talk to the man, who was driving a rental car. At one point, the man asked, "Are you going to put me in jail?"

According to Judd, Speirs had already called for backup because he was suspicious and did not want to aggravate the situation. The deputy told the suspect that he doubted he would go to jail, saying, "It's a hot day. I'm not in the mood to drive all the way to the county jail."

But the man then ran into nearby woods, Judd said. Speirs went in about 200 to 300 feet, then returned to meet arriving officers and set up a perimeter.

Williams, the police dog and Speirs went into woods and faced "a sudden burst of gunfire," Judd said.

Williams, Speirs and the dog were shot in the ensuing gunfight. Speirs called for an ambulance, paramedics and additional police units.

Williams was shot multiple times, Judd said. "I don't believe he felt a thing."

A short time later, a Lakeland police detective was also fired on when he was notifying residents that the suspect might be in the area. When he returned fire, the suspect ran back into the woods, Judd said.

Police released a photo of the suspect but said it was taken off a Florida identification card thought to be false and could not verify the man's name or address.

It was believed that Diogi may have attacked the suspect before being shot, and deputies also returned fire at the suspect. He may be shot or bitten, Judd said.

His wife and three children, a twin son and daughter, 16, and a 19-year-old son survive Williams, Judd said. He was shot to death on his wife's birthday. So, that was the reason for the lynching!

Now as for the opinion of Darin Kordyak Columnist. He is off the mark also. Our Police Force is off on Steroids for the most part and do not think with clear heads. The person shot will never be tried for his crime. He was only a suspect. The fact that the man was shot with so much vigor is incredible and it should make us all take note.. As far as the police stopping him for speeding. If the man could not produce a Drivers License. Shouldn’t that cause the Police Officer to call for back up? With the Flir systems out there they couldn’t find the guy with helicopters? Isn’t Darin aware of the “Cowboy Mentality” of todays Police Force? Does he think about this when he gets pulled over for speeding? The Police use that a lot of times to be able to search vehicles. Maybe that is what this guy was doing. Just so he could be a proud cowboy.

 Now, if it only happened because ALL the Police knew it was this man’s wifes birthday.. then perhaps all police officers should take their spouses birthday off and we better spread that to include children and parents too. That way this might be avoided in the future.

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