Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman. This is getting embarrassing even to the Other Georgia.

• "If people feel you're being honest with them and you're in control and know what you're doing, that's all they need." (Myron Freeman does not appear to be doing any of the foregoing.)

• He has avoided most interviews, choosing instead to address the media through his underlings. (Not good Sheriff.)

• He insisted that deputies performed in an "exemplary" fashion the day a judge, courtroom reporter and one of their own were gunned down. (Exemplary?)

• He has adopted the passive voice when accepting blame for the incident, acknowledging only that "mistakes were made." (Spare us Sheriff.)

• Even the task force Freeman appointed to look at courthouse procedures after the March 11 incident has earned him criticism, stacked as it is with campaign donors, officials with no law enforcement experience, and even Atlanta's police chief, who's under fire for his own department's response to the courthouse rampage. (Great move Sheriff.)

• "My experience tells me the best response is an open response. I have never found evasion to be an effective tactic." (Sheriff Freeman's experience -- or lack thereof -- must tell him otherwise.)

• In Fulton County, the unseating an office-holder such as Freeman is an uphill battle. Signatures from well over 100,000 registered voters would be needed. (Sorry 'bout that folks.)

•"He's trying to run for cover, and he has no place to hide." (You got that right.)
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If you folks in the metro need some assistance in the wake of the March 11 killing spree that began in the Fulton County courthouse, let us here in the Other Georgia know. We will look around among our ranks, and can't imagine things could be any worse than they are now.

In looking around, don't ask us to send the former second-in-command at the Georgia State Patrol. You've already got him (can you believe it?).

And we are not making light of your ongoing troubles. Rather here's to hoping somebody, at some level, will step up to the plate and take control or offer some feasible solution. This is getting embarrassing to the Empire State of the South.
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(Quotes above from 4-20-05, Creative Loafing.)