The Sheriff of Bexar County, Texas put himself within the nationwide highlight on Monday, saying that his workplace can be opening an investigation into the 2 chartered planes reportedly despatched by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to Martha’s winery.
Sheriff Javier Salazar, a Democrat, is supposedly investigating whether or not or not the largely Venezuelan immigrants despatched to Massachusetts have been promised jobs or different enticements, one thing DeSantis has denied.
However in chatting with folks and searching round on-line, I see not too many individuals are conversant in Salazar, so let’s discover out who DeSantis is coping with.
Bexar County Sheriff Salazar marched for George Floyd, campaigned for Joe Biden, fired a jail guard for supporting Trump, and slammed the Roe v Wade ruling
One thing tells me this has nothing to do with legislation enforcement
— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) September 20, 2022
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Properly Identified ‘Suspects’
On the press convention announcing his investigation, Sheriff Salazar acknowledged:
“We’re opening up a case. The info of the case at this level are that on Wednesday, Sept. 14 right here in Bexar County within the metropolis of San Antonio, our understanding is {that a} Venezuelan migrant was paid what we might name a fowl canine payment to recruit roughly 50 migrants. They have been promised work, they have been promised the answer to a number of of their issues. They have been taken to Martha’s Winery for what we will collect little greater than a video op after which they have been unceremoniously stranded.”
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Sheriff Salazar additionally claims that the migrants have been “lured underneath false pretenses” onto planes:
“It’s method too early for me to start out naming any suspects. We do have the names of some suspects concerned that we imagine are individuals of curiosity on this case at this level. However I gained’t be parting with these names. I feel, to be honest, I feel all people on this name is aware of who these names are already, so I gained’t be naming any of them. However suffice it to say, we might be opening up a case.”
Attention-grabbing. So why is that this Texas Sheriff opening up a case? For these unfamiliar, Bexar County shouldn’t be on the border, however is as a substitute the house of San Antonio. It sits roughly 150 miles north of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
53 died at the back of a truck on Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar’s watch. Seems to be like Sheriff Salazar is the one who wants investigating. @GregAbbott_TX @KenPaxtonTX
— JamieRJN (@JamieRJN) September 19, 2022
Meet Sheriff Salazar
So who’s Sheriff Javier Salazar? He became Sheriff of Bexar County in 2017, after a few years within the San Antonio Police Division, and was re-elected in 2020.
A fast Google search finds a lot of controversies surrounding the Sheriff.
In April 2011, Deputy Armando Lopez was fired after it was determined that he falsified several confidential informant fee vouchers relationship from January to March 2009.
In December of 2018, Lopez was rehired by Salazar. A search of political contributions confirmed that Lopez had contributed to then-candidate Javier Salazar’s marketing campaign to be elected Sheriff in 2016. The contributions totaling $4,000 stretched from December 2015 to September 2016, weeks earlier than the election.
Salazar can also be not afraid to align his elected office with his political beliefs. In June, following the Supreme Court docket ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, Salazar introduced he wouldn’t try and cost ladies in San Antonio who sought abortions.
He ripped into each the Supreme Court docket ruling and Texas lawmakers for making an attempt to “impose their supposed morals on others.” He added, “They won’t use my badge or the colour of my workplace to take action. My job is chasing predators, rapists and human traffickers, not somebody exercising a proper.”
Gov. @GregAbbott_TX MUST take away Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar from workplace instantly primarily based upon his insane political risk in opposition to @GovRonDeSantis
If Abbott believes he doesn’t have the authority, he should name a Legislative Session & move a legislation granting him removing energy
— Rep. Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) September 20, 2022
Questions Of Competence
At the least at one level, Sheriff Salazar’s own deputies did not think too highly of him. In April of 2019, the union that represents Bexar County deputies filed a category motion lawsuit in opposition to Salazar for they claimed was “blatant political pandering,” and in addition contract violations concerning deputy firings.
Based on the lawsuit, Salazar was in violation quite a few instances of the Texas Authorities Code and the union’s collective bargaining settlement by firing deputies who had been arrested previous to investigating any prices.
The deputies additionally level to statements made by Salazar about them that have been disparaging. In an interview with the native ABC affiliate, Salazar stated that he would give his personal job efficiency an “A,” regardless that he was not left with a “Tremendous Bowl staff,” and talked about his deputies’ lack of coaching.
Including to the attraction of Sheriff Salazar, additionally in 2019, the Bexar County jail, as of September of that yr, had mistakenly released 12 inmates from the jail, two of them inside a 12-hour interval. Bexar County Decide Nelson Wolff commented on the time, “He tells me he’s doing the whole lot he can and I imagine he’s making an attempt however this many incidents during the last a number of months is unparalleled.”
At a press convention that addressed the inmate releases, Javier Salazar unknowingly channeled a future Vice President and acknowledged that, though there have been investigations following each launch, he was nonetheless wanting into the “root trigger” of why they have been occurring.
Notice to Gov. DeSantis, be looking out for Bexar County’s reply to Sheriff Buford T. Justice.
I did not know the Bexar County sheriff had jurisdiction over Florida.
— Whiskey Noodle (@whiskey_noodle) September 20, 2022
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