Florida Mayor Asked to Resign After Calling Police Officer “PIGS”
The Stuart, Florida City Commission is demanding the resignation of Mayor Eula Clarke for referring to a police officer as a “pig.”
From CNSnews.com
According to a complaint by the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association (PBA), which represents Stuart Police officers, the mayor entered a local convenience store, saw Officer Edward Fitzgerald speaking with an employee, and said: “I didn’t know we were serving pig tonight.”
“No City of Stuart employee should be subjected to verbal harassment or demeaning comments by one of the City’s elected officials,” the complaint stated.
“We’re outraged,” PBA president John Kazanjian said, calling the mayor’s remark “just a slap in the face…we don’t need someone like that as a public servant.”
Stuart Police Chief David Dyess told local TV channel WPTV that he was “kind of stunned or shocked that the mayor would make a comment like that to the officer.”
Mayor Clarke has repeatedly apologized for the incident, including sending a formal letter to Kazanjian in which she confessed: “I am so sorry for this entire event.”
“My choice of words, and my speech, was patently offensive, and I would hope that Ofc. Fitzgerald, and all law enforcement officers will forgive me for this transgression,” the mayor wrote.
“All law enforcement officers are very important to me, and to the City of Stuart. We owe them a great debt of gratitude,” she continued.
But the four Stuart City Commission members who elected Clarke to serve as mayor in September 2016 say they doubt her sincerity.
The commission consists of five officials, including Mayor Clarke. Since Clarke has not stepped down as mayor of her own volition, the commissioners will likely vote on Wednesday to relieve her of her duties, according to TCPalm.
Commissioner Troy McDonald said he was unconvinced by Clarke’s explanation that she uses the word “pig” when “referring to certain meat products.”
“At the same time you were apologizing,” McDonald noted, “you started to try to back off and say, ‘Well I was talking about pork products’…which makes me question your sincerity at this point.”
Commissioner Kelli Glass-Leighton also issued a statement saying, “As the wife of a law enforcement officer, I take extreme offense and disgust with the mayor’s words and action.
“I don’t believe an apology is enough. We as a city need to heal and move forward. Mayor Clarke, I do firmly believe you need to resign as a city commissioner immediately.”
However, Stuart’s citizens have taken both sides of the controversy, with some condemning and others defending Clarke.
Local business owner Trina Lange believes that Clarke “should step down as mayor.
“Our mayor represents our town,” Lange told the TCPalm. “I don’t want to be seen as representing that.”
But Stuart resident Thelma Washington defended Clarke, pointing to her record of public service.
“To many here, Clarke has been a champion for the neighborhood,” Washington said, noting that Clarke “reads to students at the child-care center” and “gives free legal advice to divorced fathers who often are kept away from their children by their mothers.”
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Thanks to Obama and eight years of brainwashing, people like her— “BLM-MENTALITY”— cannot help themselves!!!
Trump didn’t elected one second to early . What a mop up job he has in front of him .
Joe- such truer words were never spoken 🙂 Bl**dy hell, I understand people from the lowest social strata calling police pigs but none that have risen out of the effluent (and yes I have a thesaurus beside my desk!)
She should be fired!
It’s like they say. Ya can take the girl outta the Ghetto but ya can’t take the Ghetto outta the girl! This just proves that to be true.
Enough is enough…this kind of nonsense if what eight years of anti-American government has brought us. Boot her out…send her to Cuba since she doesn’t appreciate our law enforcement officers….she can see if Cuba is better….maybe they have goats.
Do not let her resign FIRE HER ASS so she loses her penton and 401 k . Put this sub human backin section 8 housing where it belongs .
She doesn’t deserve the subsidized housing and any of the government benefits Dirty bitch should go homeless. Fire her NOW!
Fire the witch
Exactly Connie!! People like her are the first ones to call the police when they need help, that’s what pisses me off!!! I’d like to see her put on a uniform and do a cops job for ONE DAY!!!! Just ONE DAY!!!!!
Discusting! Way too much of this B.S. going on!
It’s ok for her ( thanks to Obama ) to call an officer of the law out doing his job & protecting the people in his district a “pig” but had he called her at any point a “nigger” all hell would have broke loose & it would have become a racial crime & the BLM people would have demanded his job! Such hypocritical bullshit. Fire her
Yes I agree with U! If she was called the BIG N-Word. He would have lost his Job plus BLM be rolling in. This is all OBOMO doing. He Started this n now the ( some Black) not all ,R using their color of skin to rob n killed innocent police officers n people’s in the name of so called BLM!!! People’s R fighting bk. Sick of all what Happing in our Country.
She can apologize all she wants but the fact is she said what she said and what’s more, she thinks it; every moment of every day. Don Imus had to step down from his position on the radio station, where is Al Sharpton? There are double standards / reverse racism etc… All lives matter, don’t they?
Apologies for what…… She was having a bad day and actually loves the police, or she’s scared of losing her job….. Go fugure,
Fire her! She is two faced.
Fire her,she meant exactly what she said,and we don’t need people with her kind of thinking working for the people as Mayor.
Wow. Can u believe it. The last 8 years has been a nightmare. If Hillary got in America would have never recovered. With Trump and of course GOD. We have a chance. Amen Please Lord. Bless America Again.
Silly Black Girl.
Resign.??????? It should be MANDATORY to terminate her with NO BENEFITS!!!!!!! As the proud mother, mother in law, and Aunt of police officers, I am very offended!!! They risk their lives daily and get no respect in return!! She better pray that she never needs to call on them for help!!! FIRE HER IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!
Fire her with no pension. She meant it or she would never have said it. Apologized to save her job is no excuse. She is racist and prejudice toward police who r here to protect her as well as the public. What a disgrace to the city and the state. She does not deserve the position.
This is what happened in the Federal Government. Everyone said one thing and did something else.
If you do not force her to resign. She wins. Being a Mother of a Police Sgt. Firing her is to good. She
deserves nothing with that attitude she would want them all dead. I am glad for your police department
that this was discovered before something happened down there. Get rid of her they deserve better
than that. If she stays everyone of those P.O. Will pay in one way or the other. Her hatred is deep.
How can the Police ever trust her in the future knowing how she thinks about them….Would she have their backs or would she turn away when they needed backup from her and others running the City. She can apologize and back paddle but the trust isn’t there anymore.
Fire her butt with no severance pay, pension, or unemployment. She is a racist thru and thru. The people there elected her as skin color has nothing to do with situation but she will be screaming racism. She is the racist and her type is what gives the black people a bad name. They should be hollaring more than anyone as she let them down….just like the former racist president.
Thelma Washington thinks she needs to stick around because she reads to kids and helps fathers with their kids. Cool!Here’s my question: Are the kids all white, all black or a mix of both. Does she just help black fathers or all fathers.
If she has contempt for police. She may have contempt for everyone that’s not her race. And if proven and shows she can’t represent the communityas a whole, she has to go
“Hate Cops”. Next time you need help. Call a furkin Crackhead
She must be fired forget whatever service she does in the community are you kidding me?! Reading to children, I wouldn’t have her near any child teaching such hate!!
Same kind of thing going on in the Glades as well, Pahokee in general. Black ran municipalities at their worst. Complete epic failures!
I give her the benefit of doubt,Granted there is a fine line between sarcasm and actually being offensive..Sounds like to me it was meant as a joke that went to far in the cops mind..But if I am wrong,Fire the mayor ..
Fire her. Get the corrupt anti-Americans out of our country’s politely system.
Political not politely… Lol!
She will have much more time to read to children and give free legal advise when she is removed from civil service. This is not a person deserving to hold political office. #stopthehate