Tampa Police Chief Iced After Flashing The Badge On Lawful Stop!

The Blue Wall of Silence and white privilege got Tampa Police Chief iced.

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Tampa Police Department hired Mary O'Connor as their police chief. She recently appointed police chiefand now she is in the freezer after she flashed her badge at a Pinellas County deputy after he stopped a male motorist operating a golf cart without proper tags.

Mayor Jane Castor on Friday placed police Chief Mary O’Connor on administrative leave as the city investigates a traffic stop involving O’Connor last month.

Body camera video released Thursday shows O’Connor identifying herself to a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy as Tampa’s chief, pulling out her badge and asking the deputy to “just let us go” after she and her husband were pulled over in a golf cart in Oldsmar on Nov. 12. The deputy, who pulled over the O’Connors because the cart did not have a license plate, let them go without a citation.

A statement from Castor said Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw is serving as acting chief.

The Tampa Bay Times had said that concerns rose early after Castor tapped her.

Jane Castor personally picked top cop despite concerns.

Castor a former police chief and the city's openly gay mayor now is one step closer to cannon firing a cop she personally chose to be her successor.

The incident has once again thrown into turmoil a leader whose tenure became mired in controversy as soon as Castor announced she had picked O’Connor for the position from among three finalists in February. Some residents, community leaders and City Council members thought Castor made a mistake by selecting O’Connor, in part because of how she behaved during a traffic stop in the mid-1990s. She and her then-boyfriend Keith O’Connor, who both were rookie officers at the time, were arrested, fired then later reinstated.

Yvette Lewis, president of the NAACP Hillsborough branch, said O’Connor should be asked to resign.

“You see how (law enforcement) look after each other and turn a blind eye, but they come to the community and say, if you see someone committing a crime, say something,” Lewis said. “But if it’s in your law-enforcement family, they don’t see and say something. They see something and close their mouths and walk away.”