Earlier in the week we shared with you the story of a large riot in Tampa Florida at the state fair.   Now the County Sheriff, David Gee, is coming under fire for sending a letter to members of his appointed Black Advisory Council for help.

The Black community is outraged the sheriff would have the audacity to point out the identical racial profiles of the people involved in the riot.   How dare he….

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TAMPA (FOX 13) – New video released Tuesday by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office shows  the start of what would become a massive stampede of rowdy students at the  Florida State Fair that led to dozens of ejections and several arrests.

The video was shot by a vendor and handed over to investigators as they try  to identify victims and make more arrests in connection to the organized  stampede known as “wilding.”

“It’s more of a giant stampede, and that’s kind of the beginning of it that  you see on that video,” explained Col. Jim Previtera. “It does give a brief  glimpse of what ‘wilding’ looks like.”

[…]   Sheriff David Gee, meanwhile, sent a letter to leaders in the African  American community, asking for their help.

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“I am concerned that the overwhelming number of youth and young adults  arrested or ejected from the midway for misconduct were African American,” Gee  wrote in the letter.

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James Cole Responds:   […]  “I’m not ready to say whether it’s fair or not when the sheriff points out the  specific demographic of African Americans,” Cole said. “I think from the video,  they try to make a call that this looked like the concentration of who we’re  working with. Our job is to make sure that when a group has been identified that  there’s still equity across the board as far as getting resources to them,  making sure that we’re doing what we can on the front end to prevent this from  happening, and they’re not just being identified for the purpose of saying,  ‘they’re a problem.'”  (continue reading)

*Note who is CC’d in the letter from Gee –  Thomas Battles (DOJ Community Relations Service) You might remember the name from the manipulated Dream Defenders march last year in Tallahassee around the FL Stand Your Ground law.   Insert the name in the site search box to understand the depth of his racial justice agenda.

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