{"id":1591378,"date":"2022-08-05T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591378"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:34:20","slug":"removal-of-florida-state-attorney-about-neglect-of-duty-and-is-not-political-desantis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/removal-of-florida-state-attorney-about-neglect-of-duty-and-is-not-political-desantis-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Removal of Florida State Attorney About Neglect of Duty and Is Not Political, DeSantis Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremoval-of-florida-state-attorney-about-neglect-of-duty-and-is-not-political-desantis-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591378&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>But suspended prosecutor fires back saying governor&#8217;s decision &#8216;spits in the face of the voters&#8217; of Hillsborough County<\/p>\n<p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014Gov. Ron DeSantis removed a Hillsborough County state attorney on Aug. 4 because he did not follow the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Aug. 5, Florida\u2019s governor said he suspended Andrew Warren, who represented the 13th judicial circuit in Hillsborough County, on the basis of \u201cneglect of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The accusation stems from 2020 when Black Lives Matter riots hit Tampa; cars were set ablaze and police officers were barricaded in their patrol cars.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister said, \u201cno one was ever prosecuted even though arrests were made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are resolved to apprehend the criminals who prey upon law-abiding citizens in our community, it\u2019s our duty\u2014and we trust that our criminal justice system, the state attorney, and the public defender will adjudicate the circumstances and hold those who are guilty accountable,\u201d Chronister said at the Aug. 4 press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The governor exercised his executive powers to bar Warren from office and suspend his wages after an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Griffin, deputy press secretary to DeSantis, told\u00a0The Epoch Times on Aug. 5 that \u201cthe general counsel\u2019s office reviewed state policies and procedures and took statements from the state attorneys from all over the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to not prosecuting criminals, Warren has publicly objected to prosecuting people under Florida\u2019s newly enacted 15-week abortion ban and has signaled that he supports gender-affirming treatments for trans minors, which DeSantis has condemned.<\/p>\n<p>But the governor says that Warren\u2019s lack of \u201cfollowing the rule of law\u201d is the reason for his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur government is a government of laws, not a government of men, and what that means is that we govern ourselves based on a Constitutional system, and based on the rule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014Gov. Ron DeSantis removed a Hillsborough County state attorney on Aug. 4 because he did not follow the rule of law. At a press conference on Aug. 5, Florida\u2019s governor said he suspended Andrew Warren, who represented the 13th judicial circuit in Hillsborough County, on the basis of \u201cneglect of duty.\u201d The accusation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}