New black sheriff sacks opponents

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Gary Younge in New York
Tuesday January 11, 2005
The Guardian

A lot has changed since Clayton County, Georgia, provided the setting for Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind.
The county's antebellum architecture has given way to suburban strip malls, and political dominance has passed from the white slaveowners to the African-American middle class.

Nothing quite signifies this transition as much as its newly elected black sheriff.

On his first day Victor Hill invited 27 supervisors, deputies and correction officers loyal to the former, white, sheriff to what they thought was a swearing in ceremony.

When they got there armed colleagues took their badges, weapons and car keys and escorted them from the building under the eye of rooftop snipers - offering them a ride home in prisoner vans. "How do you safely tell 30 people that they're not being reinstated?" Mr Hill told the New York Times from his courthouse office. "You do it in a jail where there are no weapons."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1387421,00.html

[What Is This Crap]

1. sacked?

sounds like the white guys needed better pass protection.

/i got nothing

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. I don't think he just sacked "white guys."

[Rowdyboy]

4. No, quite a few of the officers fired for their politics were black

as is much of the opposition to the new "high sher'f"

[Rowdyboy]

3. Really dumb-ass move...He's being opposed by County Commission

Chairman Eldrin Bell (a former ally and fellow law officer)

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=56967

He was forced to rehire all the people he hired, then he put them all on administrative leave with pay. So the county's taxpayers are footing the bill for virtual vacations while this slowly makes its way through the court system.