Randy Smith’s resignation was part of plea deal after attack on podcaster Bobby Couvillion at a Madisonville restaurant
A suburban New Orleans sheriff who had held one of his community’s most prominent political offices for a decade has retired shortly after pleading guilty to battering a podcaster who often criticized him.
Randy Smith, 61, also agreed to serve more than a year of probation after admitting to a late May beating at a steakhouse where he had bought 18 alcoholic beverages on his tab on a Friday afternoon – which all but halted his four-decade policing career.
Smith had been sworn in as the elected sheriff of St Tammany parish, Louisiana, on 1 July 2016, succeeding a predecessor who eventually pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges and was separately convicted of serial child sexual molestation.
Yeah it’s his pension. But we, the tax payer should take it away from him as punishment/compensation for his victims. I don’t know what we’re missing here.
For police, a pension should just be a security deposit that you get back at retirement/career change if you’ve been good and not behaved like an animal.
Nah fuck that, put his ass in prison sure, but until we fix our broken ass country I’m not sentencing anyone to poverty in their old age. There are some people I really do hate, but I hate the existence of poverty more
Now I’m down for making them carry insurance that pays their wrong doing. That in turn will eventually push them out of policing