A.G. Gancarski
One of the most well-known sheriffs in Florida is letting his officers know that he has their backs against people recently pardoned by President Donald Trump.
And furthermore, he thinks the President messed up by getting them released from lockdown.
“You’re not only Polk County’s deputies. You’re my deputies,” said Grady Judd in a video to officers that was released Sunday by FOIA Investigations on YouTube.
Trump recently pardoned more than 1,500 people who protested the certification of the 2020 presidential election in January 2021, saying the decision rectified a “grave national injustice” against those he called “J6 hostages.”
“I disagree with that decision. I disagree with it very strongly,” Judd said in the video.
Judd also said he “sent a warning to any of those that were commuted or pardoned, that if they thought they could come to Polk County and resist arrest, that would be a bad mistake.”
“If we have to arrest them and they resist arrest, then we’ll use the force necessary and only the force necessary to take them into custody. And if that means beating your butt to get them to jail, we’ll do that. We have a different attitude here. You’re not only Polk County’s deputies, you’re my deputies,” Judd asserted.
Judd told media earlier this week that he understands “the 30,000 foot view of what the President did, but there’s a granular level where they were attacking our police officers who were just doing their job.”
Trump, in his executive order announcing the decision, offered a “full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
As the pardoned have emerged from jails, some of them have been able to tell stories of human rights abuses they suffered while interred.
5 comments
Earl Pitts American
January 26, 2025 at 3:26 pm
Relax your Political Sphincters, Florida, Sheriff Judd is getting up there in the years and may have justba bit of Joe 8iden type of the “OldTimers” mental acuiety issues, Don & JD will talk to him and get this entire mis-understanding worked out. We love our Florida Sheriffs and Sherrif Judd is no exception.
Thank you, Florida,
Earl Pitts American
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Ocean Joe
January 26, 2025 at 3:29 pm
The Sheriff says basically the same thing Rubio, Desantis, McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsay Graham all said the day after it happened.
But unlike Grady Judd, when the others realized Republican voters were going to stand by Trump no matter what he did or does, they changed their tunes regardless of whether it was right or wrong. Trump has that effect on people. The sheriff has integrity, like the sheriff over in Pasco who shut down a covid party and lost out on the DEA position, because he put the law ahead of the politics.
Bill Pollard
January 26, 2025 at 6:53 pm
👍
MH/Duuuval
January 26, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Stand as tall as you can Grady — though this posture might make you more likely to get struck by MAGA lightning.