Michael Fultz's ex-girlfriend gave investigators images of the deputy placing a gun in her mouth and pointing it at the back of her head while they had consensual sex,
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'Deputy of the year' resigns after Nazi salute, then agencies call for more police at synagogues.
As it ran on the front
Read these two in order, because the order is the whole story. A sheriff's deputy — 'deputy of the year,' their words, their award — resigns after it comes out he used surveillance cameras to track an ex, said the word you're not supposed to say, and threw up a Nazi salute, on camera, as a law enforcement officer. Days of coverage. And then, separately, the same week, a call goes out for more police patrols at Jewish schools and synagogues, because the High Holy Days are coming and somebody has to stand guard.
Nobody in either story is saying those are the same department. That's not the point. The point is what we're asking the same profession to do on both ends of this sentence: be the guy who gets the medal, and also be the guy who did the salute, and also be the guy standing outside the synagogue with a rifle making sure nobody does what the guy with the medal did. That's not a coincidence of bad apples. That's a job description with a crack running straight through it, and every time one side shows up in the news, the other side doesn't stop needing to exist.…
…(cont) Here's the stakes part, plain: parents dropping kids off at Hebrew school in eleven days are going to look at a patrol car and have to decide, fast, whether it's protection or the same badge that did the salute. That decision shouldn't be theirs to make on no information. It's the department's to answer, with something better than an award for deputy of the year and a resignation letter after the cameras caught up.
Nobody wants more armed men outside a school. Everybody would rather not need them. But you don't get to cut a check for extra patrols and act surprised when the public asks who's driving the car, especially the same month one of the drivers turned out to be exactly who the patrols are supposed to be watching for.
“Same badge that does the Nazi salute is the badge we're asking to guard the synagogue in eleven days. That's not an isolated incident, that's the job description, and somebody's kid is standing in that gap.”
“This was one deputy, isolated, addressed swiftly through resignation, and has no bearing on the department's ability to provide adequate patrols for the Holy Days — no bearing at all, aside from the obvious one, which this desk will not be elaborating on.”
The receipts
Antisemitic incidents in 2025: 6,274 - the third-highest year since tracking began in 1979, with assaults at a record high ADL, 2025 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents
More police patrols urged for Jewish schools, synagogues across US as High Holy Days begin Sept. 11“Every Jewish child deserves access to a safe place to learn, and every individual deserves to worship in peace."
This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front.