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Lafayette businesses offer tributes to Macon Co. sergeant killed in crash
LAFAYETTE, Tenn. (WKRN) — News of the sudden passing of a Macon County Sheriff’s Sergeant sent shockwaves through the Lafayette Community Saturday.
Sgt. William Cherry was killed in the overnight hours Saturday, when a wrong-way driver crashed into his patrol vehicle head-on. According to the preliminary report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, A driver in a white Ford pickup truck crossed into the lane Cherry was in on State Route 10 in Macon County. Cherry was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other driver was flown to a nearby hospital.
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I heard the news from a deputy that was out taking a theft report from my neighbor across the road early Saturday morning. The deputy who took the report had known him for years and years and worked with him in Red Boiling Springs, and he was in tears while he was telling us.
Thoughts and prayers for the family.
ReplyDeleteI too live in a small town, and the police force here is the only thing saving me from calling every one of them orcs and lining up to defund them.
It's the classic problem of a few bad apples ruining the basket, a problem found around the world in all fields and area's... what to do, what to do? I believe in the idea that if you don't want others meddling around in your business, you make sure they don't have a reason to.
Right now the good cops need to realize the bad cops they work with and turn a blind eye to, have made all of them the enemy. You can clean your own house, or we will clean it for you.
Our cops here are all local boys and behave accordingly.
DeleteI was talking to my wife yesterday about the police. I said about the same thing. Most of them are doing the job because they believe in it, and would never knowingly do wrong.
DeleteThe few who do mess up hurt the good ones. I would include the cops at the federal level. Leadership there has made it so there are more bad ones, but there are still some who try to get things right. Thus we see whistleblowers calling out the bad ones.
I wish the deceased cop's family to be comforted and to somehow find peace.
Are there unfair, immoral and unjust laws on the books? A rhetorical question to which we all know the answer. They enforce them all, ipso facto, no good cops. BTW, yes, I live in a small town where nothing typically happen yet the local and county orcs roll around wearing plate carriers and tac gear - yeesh! The county Sherriffs just tried to kill a suicidal man who "pointed a gun" at them. Opened fire (>20 shots fired) with man's mother right beside him. Protected and served the shot out of him (he was hit 9 times.)
DeleteWhen I lived in Nebraska I knew a Dep. Sheriff named Cherry. A real nice guy - don't know if they are related.
ReplyDeleteCondolences to the family, friends and co-workers of Sgt. Cherry..... RIP
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I think it comes down to how the size of the community, in that large places where officers don't know and live among everyone else, the accountability is bureaucratic processes. In a smaller town or low-population county that an officer lives in, you shop there, your healthcare is there, most of your off time will be there. I was a police reservist many years ago in a town of 2,400 people, and county population of roughly 10,000. All the municipal police lived in town (all four of them) and had relationships with people aside from work. Virtual anonymity due to large population and not living where you work takes away a lot of the incentive to treat others with basic courtesy, for those who need an external driver to practice that basic capability.
ReplyDeleteThe police may have lined the way but I hope they didn't pave the way
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