An entire police force quit their jobs to protest the incessant “micro-management” from Pine Ridge, South Carolina’s Mayor Robert Wells. After multiple police officers resigned from their posts Lt. Vince Silano was appointed as interim police chief for the Pine Ridge Police Department. Now, Lt. Silano has also quit the job, leaving the department without any full-time cops.
The Daily Caller reports:
Silano cited “the constant impediment of police matters and micro-managing at the hands of Mayor Robert Wells” in his resignation letter.
Silano was the fourth police chief for the small town in the last three years, the Washington Examiner reported. Wells ended the police department’s canine unit and was criticized for doing so.
Mayor Robert Wells Jr. was also criticized in the resignation letters signed by two other police officers who resigned, WLTX.com reported.
“My reasoning for leaving is simple, I can longer work in a department where the Chief of Police or his officers aren’t supported by the council,” Officer Frankie Neely Jr. wrote in his resignation letter.
Lt. Silano’s decision to quit the job has left members of the small South Carolina town feeling anxious and unsafe in their town.
They can come to Rockford Illinois. They are looking for officers both in the city police and the county sheriff.
They can come to my town too. We want more police but the city council want to spend $ on new roads to recreational facilities.
At last count, Houston, TX had 400 unfilled, full time positions in the police department. We’d be delighted to have them here.
Don’t go to Houston. The Leftist Mayor is no different than Mayor Wells! Houston was invaded by Californians.
Maybe the town needs to get rid of the moronic libturd mayor????
A lot of towns need to do that!
Cities and states too! They are ALL BLUE.
Even if they have put on red makeup.
The WRONG color of blue!
Like Georgia. These cops are regular people with a lust to help those in need. What’s the matter with the Dems????
George Soros paid for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Governors too
Democrat politicians do not know their rear end from a hole in the ground, they are puppets and hate this country
But their love for money is boundless.
That is too easy.
Impeach the mayor!
Preferably in the same way they got rid of Mussolini in 1945…
Most folks have no idea how Mussolini met his end…public schools teach social studies not history!
Yes they do.
Mayor: “What you gonna do when they come for you?” You must be worst nay-sayer that ever held a position in city government in your entire state. Probably should get his act together or face insurance cancellations, recall elections, random acts of violence and the state police staying rather far back when you want help. I can see the Chamber of Commerce slogans now: “Come to Pine Ridge–The most hateful place in all of South Carolina”
Actually, David: Come to pine Ridge! Police are gone. The officers need to turn off their phones and let the STUPID mayor deal with crime. Just see how anarchy works at home.
Hmmm…. perhaps a group of thugs will start taking over the town…. I believe that is what happens…. especially if there are laws restricting guns…. The cops go away, so there is no full time check on evil-doers….
If that happens, the mayor will cry loudly…..
They already have, the “thugs” are called D-Rats.
Either that or the good police leave and the outlaw police come in to replace them. That might be what their trying to do too.
The socialist demorats are getting what they want total chaos and rising crime.
Power hungry little Mayors should be taken just outside City limpets and left.
Hit all liberals in the butt with wet ink and things will improve, I am sure.
Just what the communist democrats want, lawlessness radicalism. Playing right in the hands of the communist playbook.
Wake up ignorant Americans!
These CCP Ppuppets of the Communists Democrate Parties have compele gone of the Farm with this nightmare for thses Cities, the People need to wise up and Fire all DumbOcraet Mayor’s and Governor’s!!!! or its only going to Get Worse!!! if Biden Dead Head and Nazi, Antifa, BLM; Commie Lover Harris get in the White House, Wake-up people, befroe its too late.
Instead of the police force resigning why don’t the people just get rid of the Mayor and council members????? Do a Recall….
I agree. Nothing like a good heated town meeting where the town residents insist for a change that night. Go door to door to get the town out to the next town meeting, and the next, and the next until the mayor gets the message and resigns. Probably need to replace the town council also because the mayor had to have some backing to do it.
Have a real tar and feathering and run out of town.
The people elected the mayoral bastard. You get what you vote for.
I completely get it. During Papa Bush’s term, my local police were doing their job in protecting our constitutional rights of private property. They would come and arrest any illegal aliens who tore down our fence to sleep in our yard. They were arresting the same people over & over & over again. They finally gave up because the FEDS kept releasing them. Remember Barr was appointed by Bush also. We haven’t had a justice department since Reagan.
Plus they’re pissed off Trump is having to prove he won this election.
The mayor’s actions are not “defunding,” they are “depolicing.” I bet he makes BLM and antifa proud.
Well I’m sure that that will be an ideal place for criminals to go now, so you can all thank your mayor when your crime goes up.
Police need a pay increase and body cams to protect themselves from criminals and city councils.
The citizens of the little S Carolina town are anxious and feel unsafe. Idiots! Why don’t they elect someone who supports the police so they won’t quit and leave you fairies scared of your shadow. I guess that’s too simple of a solution for those small town folks.
To stop this defund the police, this is hard but it will bring everything to an end. The police put out a public notice that, say, starting Jan 15, 2021 there will be no police for one week. Any crimes committed in that week will not be investigated. It is up to you as to what you do. That should close the conversation.
Who voted this idiot into office?
The same fools that are now griping! Hope they are all armed to protect themselves because they are going to need it!
The Refugees Obutthead imported, They don’t call it Little Mogadishu for nothing.
maybe it’s time they take back their city, recall the mayor and have a special election to replace him. While you’re at it you might want to change the city charter that places the Police Chief outside of the normal chain of command and make the Police chief an elected position with a 4yr term. I’ll be your Police Chief.
I’m glad to see that the police officers are standing up to the tyrants and letting them know what it will be like without police. Just maybe these liberal fools will see that they are being stupid in giving in to terrorists. Although I doubt it. They are more concerned with being politically correct instead of being truly correct.
Like the Minneapolis City Council defended the police then, had to hire a security force with tax payer monies.
How do all these idiots get elected? Now we might have the biggest idiot of all as president.
God forbid! We are gonna be screwed with Biden/Harris administration!!!
They got in because we stopped being involved in not only local government but also state and federal.
When you vote in an election, really know what you are voting on. Get a copy of the ballot and study and discuss all changes to laws and the people on the ballot.
This has happened because we stopped knowing about what is on the ballot. Both in policy and the person on the ballot.
Right on MPC. Where I live, WA, you have to be an attorney to read the pro and con of proposed bills. what ever the demonRat’s put forward it is always opposite of what they want passed. Purposely so. Therefore, I always vote NO. Then, if it passes by a vote of the people and the demonRat’s don’t like the result, they find a judge to over turn the vote of the people. Happens quite often here in WA.
So clearly Mayor Wells is putting all the constituents in Pine Ridge, SC in jeopardy and literally victimizing them with no conscience at all. Since he has forced the police to resign what is his back up plan to protect the residence of Pine Ridge? Who do they call when they need help? It’s a sure bet that Mary Wells and the rest of the city government has got security protecting them which is paid for by the taxpayers. That needs to stop immediately and let’s see how Mary will feel when he’s put in the same position that he’s chosen to put the residence of his town in. Wake up America probably had more than enough of these elitist politicians who continue to prove how little they care about the American people and all they’re interested in is power all to the detriment of the people they were elected to serve.
Let the crime begin and the area will turn red in not time. Blood or Republicans, the voters’ choice. Chicago is a 3rd world battle zone along with Baltimore and Philadelphia. Looks like Minneapolis is trying to follow.
i would emagine this mayor wells is a demorat
The idiots who elected this mayor have good reason to be in fear. They were dumb enough to vote for this jerk, now let them suffer the consequences.
Be better to get to the next town meeting and demand his resignation. Got to be willing to step up.
Those officers can find jobs anywhere where there are common sense politicians who support our police force. The morons running these cities need to be impeached so the citizens can be safe.
They can come to Haltom City, Texas where we are short handed in our police department, too!
Sadly, the inhabitants of Pine Ridge, SC. voted their moronic ignorant Mayor into office! They got what they asked for! At least if their their votes weren’t manipulated by dem controlled Dominion/Smartmatic equipment
and dem controlled elections personal!
The dem controlled states earily mirror what happened to Venezuela under the Hugo Chavez regime, ensuring his re-election. Just rig the election with equipment you can easily program to get the results you desire! How many cities in this country has that happened to in this last election? We now know it wasn’t just Dominion/Smartmatic, it was corrupt election so called “officals” also in on this scam election that performed whatever illegal action necessary to disenfranchise honest Americans voters, along with dishonest double voters and dead peoples votes submitted by even more dishonest scumbags! Proof of my accusations will be found out to be true in the upcoming Georgia runoffs! If the dems pull off two in a row, there will be NO doubt in at least my mind, that Socialists have taken over America, because if either of the two pathic anti-American scumbag morons were to gain more votes that the two Patriotic incumbents, it will be the demise of this once great country, and it will have all been done illegally(!) by democrat socialists, the MSM and their inexcusable stupid ignorant lemming followers! President Trump has been one of our greatest most accomplished Presidents in our countries history, with an incredible rebound in a floundering BHO economy, a Middle East philosophy that has brought a road to peace that area hasn’t seen in thousands of years, to successfully confronting China, Iran, NoKo and Russia, after offering the so called “olive branch” of nonconfrontational friendship in good faith, to cutting taxes for ALL Americans, to cutting obtrusive over regulation of business resulting in historic job growth and unemployment not seen in decades, to just plain pride to be American’s! To “Make America Great Again”! WTF is wrong with that? I’ve said for years that the MSM is THE enemy of the United Stares, making China, Iran, Russia and NoKo envious of something they’ve been unable to do for decades! You’ve been misinformed and out and out lied to in in an effort to as Barack Hussein Obama said: ” Fundamentally Transform America”! How do you like it so far……..COMRAD!
If you know anyone in GA, tell them to vote. And also volunteer and observe. Show up and observe.
Phred….I’d give you multiple up votes if I could….well said!
In Tulsa, Ok. We BACK THE BLUE, we respect our law enforcement & give them support. If you want a Mayor that supports the heroes in Blue then come work for Tulsa and Mayor G.T. Bynum!
It is deplorable the way Mayor Wells has treated the men and women that risk their life to keep his city and citizens safe!!!
The officers should have left the mayors number on their answering machines telling people to call him for help when needing police
Maybe now, some really nasty criminals will break into that mayor’s house. With no police in that town, he could get a vicious wake-up call from the real world.
Guess the citizens should recall that Mayor!
Expect this to happen more and more.
If the people voted democrat, you are responsible for what you have now!
THERE MR. MAYOR, now you can chase all the CRIMINALS ALL BY YOURSELF! GOOD LUCK !
The citizens need to throw the mayor out of his office, strip him of all his clothes, and beat the living tar out of him as he runs naked down main street.
As a retired San Francisco Police officer I can tell you nothing gets under your skin more than someone who doesn’t have a clue about what it takes to be a police officer, telling you what you did wrong. An officer’ s number one job is to make sure he goes home at the end of his shift especially in the current environment of today.
These officers will find work wherever they want to go. I wish they’d move here to Florida. Sherriff Grady is awesome and I even named my kitten after him. He’s feisty and doesn’t put up with anything.
Who can blame them? No support from democrats. Not allowed to do their jobs, prosecuted if they do!
That is So insane! Sounds like the Mayor is concerned about the impact what he doing has on the residents of his community. The citizens need to demand the Màyor’s resignation.
Easy! Get rid of the mayor!!! Our city supports the police. Our Sheriff will not enforce the lockdowns…Fresno CA.
In some ways I feel sorry for the people of that town, but they are the ones who voted for that mayor.