It's getting pretty ridiculous now. Tallahassee PD has to be trolling the nation, right?
In this week's edition of "Seriously?", Florida State's starting cornerbacks were in a hit and run incident which resulted in both vehicles involved being totalled out. After fleeing the scene, those kids playing police TPD tracked down the driver, PJ Williams and, instead of arresting him on the criminal Fleeing the Scene of an Accident charge, handed him a couple of traffic tickets. My favorite part is this excerpt:
Mr. Williams eventually returned to the scene. But Tallahassee officers did not test him for alcohol. Nor did their report indicate whether they asked if he had been drinking or why he had fled, logical questions since the accident occurred at 2:37 a.m. The report also minimized the impact of the crash on the driver of the other car, Ian Keith, by failing to indicate that his airbag deployed — an important detail because Mr. Keith said in an interview that the airbag had cut and bruised his hands.
The university police, who lacked jurisdiction, nevertheless sent two ranking officers — including the shift commander — to the scene. Yet they wrote no report about their actions that night. Florida State dismissed the role of its officers in the incident as too minor to require a report or enter into their own online police log, comparing it to an instance when campus officers responded to a baby possum falling from a tree.
The full story is available below, but there's no way any police unit can work this way, can there?
