Fla. sheriff's heated response to reporter's question about 'gunfight' comment

so at the end of the day everyone's safe please continue your normal life and know that the men and women in law enforcement will put their life at risk to keep you safe and that's what happened they killed two innocent women last night in their homes they tried to kill a lot of Law Enforcement Officers last night and were unsuccessful and we took them all in custody okay one more question Sheriff if I could um I think everybody understands the gravity of what happened and the urgency and the response that you took some of the comments that you made last night about uh shooting uh the suspects possibly and the comments today about the ready for a gunfight was that In the Heat of the Moment do you have any regret about that in why no no I don't know I I not only have no regret I'm pretty excited about telling you that's exactly what would have happened and make no mistake about it there's nothing about politically correct in a gunfight there's nothing about politically correct when you're keeping people alive and well and safe and the people of this community and these Law Enforcement Officers come first I meant every word of it then and I mean every word of it now if you surrender peacefully that's the way we prefer it you start pointing guns at us you can not only plan on but you can guarantee we're going to shoot you

Channel: FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Views: 3,212,640

Keywords: Sheriff (Profession), News

Id: H9-WlXOeaBo

Length: 1min 28sec (88 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 16 2015