Resignation letter of Nowata County, Oklahoma sheriff Terry Barnett, after a judge ordered her to reopen an unsafe jail with near-lethal carbon monoxide and exposed wiring.

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[–]Troll 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Let me know when you would've done that in her shoes.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll never go back to being a goon for the state.

Cause I'd never be a cop.
So, I'd never be elected as a sheriff.

She was elected. Who do you think would have arrested the sheriff to take hey to jail??? That's a big problem for the courts, as the cops are the supposed enforcers.

Who do you think the cops would've sided with??? Especially, given she refused to open the jail for their safety, and others.

Instead she resigned which cedes power to someone who want elected, and will probably take illegal orders from the judge.
Now she has no formal power; and the corporatist courts are in complete control.