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Out in Parma, Missouri, the town elected a new mayor and shortly after the election results came in, five of the town’s six police officers resigned.
Oh, the new mayor, Tyrus Byrd, is African American … and female.
Byrd, the town’s African American female mayor, was sworn in after she beat incumbent Randall Ramsey. Ramsey had served as mayor of Parma for 37 years under two terms.
Parma says those five police officers resigned citing "safety concerns;" the town’s city attorney, clerk and water treatment supervisor also quit.
Mayor-elect Byrd, said she was unaware of the situation and plans to ask questions about the "safety concerns" during her swearing-in ceremony, though she says her first order of business will be to clean up the city.
I’m guessing losing five asshat police officers who didn’t bother to give her a chance is a good way to start.
As for the townspeople of Parma, they’re okay with the sudden resignations, and happily point out that the town was probably over-staffed with police officers anyway.
“I think it was pretty dirty the way they all quit without giving her a chance, but I don’t think they hurt the town by quitting, because who needs six police for 740 people?” — Parma resident Martha Miller
As for why the police and three other city employees resigned, Mayor Tyrus Byrd is still trying to figure that out because there are no resignation letters to be found and that the computers were cleared.
It sounds to me like the election of Mayor Byrd is the best thing for Parma, if police quit over an election, and suddenly any evidence of their tenure is erased from memory.
Oh, and good luck to those police officers getting jobs elsewhere; I mean, explain they’re sudden departure on a resume … explain why they quit with no notice …. Explain why no one has their resignation letters.
As I said, it's probably for the better for Parma that these asshats hit the bricks.
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Oops. I think that some tricksy bookkeeping was going on.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope that they only thought they needed to delete documents from their computers because the data will still be there for anyone with a few computer smarts to resurrect.
ReplyDeletethat came to my mind immediately - racist AND sexist!
ReplyDeleteSounds like some dirty business was afoot in this town, and they knew the jig was up!
ReplyDeleteThis is sad
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