(July 14, 2013 at 8:42 am)Tiberius Wrote:(July 14, 2013 at 8:33 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: It's been a long time since this all kicked off, so I haven't listened to it in a long time, and I can't check it at work; but I'm sure I've listened to the call where they told him not to follow him. I'll have to look that up when I get home tonight.There are numerous transcripts available online.
The actual words were "We don't need you to do that."
I also heard that the police dispatcher testified that they do not give orders out over the phone as a matter of policy. It takes quite a lot of messing around with semantics to argue that "We don't need you to do that" is an order, in my opinion.
The Sanford 911 operators don't give orders because they have no authority to do so. They are not sworn police officers. The Seminole County Department of Public Safety Emergency Communications Center is staffed by emergency medical dispatch technicians not cops.
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