PRESS RELEASE STATEMENT
July 1, 2018
To: Superior Court of Marion County
From: Marion County Sheriff's Office; Sheriff, Stanley Hudson Ford
Upon request from the Superior Court of Marion County, I, Sheriff Ford, have decided on this first day of July, to issue a statement regarding the events that took place on the thirtieth of June, 2018. First I will explain and give crutial information as to what is happening in the two video clips provided by former President, Corey Smith.
Here, you can see the former President broadcast this message:
"This is your President. Saudi Arabia is not recognized by America anymore. They are to surrender, or be dissolved and killed."
Please keep in mind that there were many unarmed civilians inside the Saudi Arabian territory.
In saying that, the President is attempting to order myself and my officers to kill not just armed persons, but
unarmed men, woman, and children should they chose to not leave their home. That is unacceptable by even the lowest standard of law and I would not stand for it. We as law enforcement officers are not a federal army, we are public servants who strive to protect the people we serve.
I immediately attempted to halt and counter the order given by former President Smith with the text radio broadcast:
"They are not to be killed if unarmed!"
My officers obviously have a good set of morals, as they refused to follow the order given by former President Smith. They knew that upon assault on Arabia, there would most likely be significant civilian casualties. They also knew that to kill an unarmed person in combat is a war crime and thus by the President ordering them to do so, former President Smith himself was attempting to commit a war crime. Major, Kyle F. Hublot, was the commanding officer on scene and made the correct call in this situation. Here at the Marion County Sheriff's Office, our mission is to protect life, liberty, and property, and most importantly serve the people. Myself and my fellows officers do not answer to the federal government. We answer to the people. We are here to protect the people. It just so happened that the former President ordered my personnel to kill a large portion of the people we are serving and protecting. It was at this moment I had realized the shear amount of evil and corruption portrayed by the former President, Corey Smith. Without hesitation I immediately placed the President Corey Smith under arrest for the charges of Political Corruption and War Crimes. Unfortunately due to public outrage, justice was not achieved as several men came up the elevator from the lobby. I rushed to the corner beside the elevator and drew my shotgun. As the men entered they shot a round into my chest and right leg, leaving me on the ground bleeding out. My shotgun had been thrown several feet away from me. I heard the men give Corey Smith, the former President, several orders, of which he did not comply. The men then executed the former President by unloading several rounds of ammunition into him. I then passed out and woke up the next day in the critical care unit of Mercy Hospital.
Clip B: After President's Death
As you can see from the elevator security camera, after executing the former President Corey Smith, they dragged his body into the elevator and slammed him against the elevator window.
Now to answer some of your questions.
Quote: (Jun 30, 2018, 09:04 PM)Doctor Internet Wrote: [ -> ] do you have a longer video, that shows greater amounts of context?
However, from what I can tell currently, the Police are partially in the wrong here. You shouldn't have ordered the killing of anyone there. However, they shouldn't have completely ignored the orders given.
, what was your reason for the detaining, please?
Note: Stanley is clearly in the wrong here for slamming your body into the window of the lift.
- The reason I arrested Corey Smith (mark2766) was because he was corrupt and attempted to commit war crimes.
- I was not the one that slammed his body into the window, I was dead at the time that occurred. The person that did that was one of the two people who killed Corey Smith.
Quote: (Jul 1, 2018, 12:07 AM)Doctor Internet Wrote: [ -> ]Police work for the Government of Rockford. They don't work for whatever new country pops up. You shouldn't be a Rockford Police official works for another country, and then arrests the President for actions taken against another country.
- We may be employed by the government but we serve and protect the people.
- At the time we were NOT working for the other "country", we were simply protecting unarmed civilians of which the former President ordered us to kill by not following his corrupt orders.
- We as law enforcement officials took action against the former President Corey Smith (mark2766) because he became corrupt and attempted to commit war crimes.
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(Jul 1, 2018, 11:36 AM)Doctor Internet Wrote: [ -> ]So the Chief of the Police Department kidnapped the President with some guy from another country?
- No, I did not kidnap or assist in the kidnapping of the former President. I attempted to stop the kidnappers but failed.
Quote:mark2766
Summary: So basically earlier in the day me and xenom were rping as president and vice president when somali drug lord came to us requesting to make a new country, knowing how these always end in server deathmatches we had a strict set of rules made at the start and rped it in character we would have certain precautions, no heavy weapons for example and only for 4 select "police" that they would have, and we would have cops at the border to keep things in check etc. Anyway it was all going good we had an ambassador etc but the cops started getting bored and just stopped responding to government requests etc so it was mostly just me and jakew or ryanf I think calling to the border making sure everything was ok and going fine, which it was for awhile. That what always happens with new country RP happened, minges come online and join the new country just to be on a powertrip and shoot at cops cause they are bored and want a shootout. And of course this person was Kings, he started by making a role that wasn't allowed some type of admiral or something and equipped a machine gun and started taking pot shots at the cops outside which of course attracted cops and swat. At this point cops and swat just didn't listen to anything over government radio stating "we take orders from chief not you" except with more profanity so I gave up on that for a while. Anyway at one point the new country killed a bunch of cops and swat at the border and throwing molotovs so I could see were things were going at this point. Problem was I think there was a bunch of people in discord some of which were cops and or swat and some were in the new country which caused problems. At this point I seen where things were going so made multiple broadcasts changed the law saying the new country was being dismantled and they are too either leave or surrender or be shot at. Of course this was all ignored and was getting comments like "we aren't killing innocent children" etc when literally the entire country was armed and breaking every rule we made for them at the start. At this point the cops and swat just told me straight up they aren't doing anything about the new country at all which kind of confirmed my suspicions there were certain people in the police force/swat who were friends with the people over there which just messed up the server dynamics of how to deal with it. At this point I announced after being pmed they were shooting cops on sight, that they are too be killed on sight if they don't surrender. At which points I was told again they weren't listening to what I was telling them, which I responded In character I would demote them to make space for people who would do there job. At which point Stanley who was in the office with me handcuffed me, he joined the new country earlier in the day because he was angry at xenon for arresting him.At this point due to my trash pc my gmod minimised when I went to save recording so I only heard audio and I heard Stanley talking to kings I think telling them what wass going on. Only way he could have done that was if he was in discord or something with him outside the server. After getting gmod maximised Kings had been called to the presidents office where he killed me while I was handcuffed then slammed me of the elevator wall.
- Why would you even allow the formation of this said country if you "knew" it would cause a server deathmatch?
- First off, the police didn't stop responding to 911 calls, I don't know where you got that absurd piece of fiction.
- Second, you agreed to post law enforcement officers from my agency at a border without consulting me first.
- "We take orders from chief not you", That's right. Unless you declare martial law which you did not, you cannot give orders to my officers.
- Even if you did declare martial law, you still cannot order my officers to gundown unarmed men, women, and children
- At no point during this situation was I involved in any form of communication with ANYONE outside of the game.
- Your suspicions are based on no facts.
- Once again, there are no facts suggesting that any of the officers or myself were "friends" with any of the players within the other country.
- I had no affiliation with the country at any point in time, once again your claims are factless.
- Your game minimized? How "convenient" for you. It's a shame we don't have the rest of that recording because it would prove that you are lying about hearing me talk to the kidnappers. I was communicating through text chat, not voice chat. That's why I typed over the radio, and why I did not speak. I was also dead, so if I were to have spoken with my voice how could you hear me speaking if I had already respawned?
- Kings was not called to the office by me or anyone else, he came there on his own accord with another player.
- In Short, Corey Smith (mark2766), You reported me for arresting you. If I were not allowed to place handcuffs on you, it would not be a mechanic in the rp server. You just got upset that I stripped your power of corruption from you. As I recall not even the President is above the law. "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"
- It's quite possible that you violated several server rules
- /!\ SERVER RULES - 1.11 - Do not promote anything conflicting with the rules in adverts, broadcasts, laws, or by any other means.
- "Do not promote anything conflicting with the rules." You promoted killing unarmed civilians. Killing unarmed civilians is against the rules. Refer to "/!\ SERVER RULES - 11.7"
- [font=open_sansregular, Arial,]/!\ SERVER RULES - 2.1 - You are considered to be under FearRP when you are in line of sight of a visibly armed person, who is within microphone range of you and is able to harm your character at that moment. You must act afraid of armed people and life-threatening situations. You must follow the orders of the person(s) who have you under FearRP, and you may not draw a weapon on them or attack them. FearRP applies to melee weapons and tasers if you are within effective range (except if in a vehicle). You may not run away from someone who has you under FearRP and is pointing a gun/taser at you, unless they specifically order you to. You are not under FearRP if you are also visibly armed. Visibly armed in the context of this rule means that you have your weapon out and in your hands, regardless of safety mode. You are not considered visibly armed when you are seated in a vehicle, regardless of whether you are holding a weapon in hand or not. If someone switches from a gun to handcuffs/rope to detain you, FearRP still applies. [/font]
- [font=open_sansregular, Arial,]You did not follow the orders from the two armed men that tried to kidnap you, in other words you broke FearRP.[/font]
- /!\ SERVER RULES - 3.1 - Your character needs to have a valid in-character reason for their actions, especially ones that harm or otherwise affect other players. The action needs to be appropriate to the reason e.g massacring the entire police force is not an appropriate response to being hit with a baton by a single corrupt officer.
- [font=open_sansregular, Arial,]"Have a valid in-character reason for their actions, especially ones that harm or otherwise affect other players." To my knowledge you did not have a valid RP reason to order all of those people be killed.[/font]
- /!\ SERVER RULES - 3.4 - Powergaming is not allowed. E.g do not write “/me pulls out a gun and shoots his opponent right in the head” when it hasn’t actually happened in the game. Instead of “/me kicks the man in the groin” use “/me attempts to kick the man in the groin” and let the other player decide the outcome; alternatively you can use /roll to decide the outcome. Other examples of powergaming – changing jobs just to buy something from the market for yourself, abusing the /demote command to get rid of a police officer holding you at gunpoint."
- "Abusing the /demote command to get rid of a police officer holding you at gun point." sounds awfully similar to what you did except you attempted to demote a police officer who was placing you under arrest
- /!\ SERVER RULES - [font=open_sansregular, Arial,]11.3 - You may be corrupt, but only if it does not directly endanger the lives of officers or civilians. Corruption has limits and should benefit your character, it does not allow you to go around beating up citizens for no reason or making up completely random arrest warrants. [/font]
- [font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,]"Only if it does not directly endanger the lives of officers or civilians." Your corruption was endangering the lives of officers and civilians.[/font][/font]
- [font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,]/!\ SERVER RULES - [font=open_sansregular, Arial,]11.7 - You cannot kill unarmed people or those who no longer pose a threat (injured, unconscious, handcuffed, etc). The only exception is if there is a dictator who orders an execution or capital punishment for an appropriate crime has been issued. You can shoot at fleeing vehicles only if the drivers are armed and dangerous or if they are clearly a threat to citizen/officers with the way they are driving.[/font][/font][/font]
- [font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,][font=open_sansregular, Arial,]"You cannot kill unarmed people or those who no longer pose a threat."[/font][/font] It says it right there.[/font][/font][/font][/font]
- /!\ SERVER RULES - 11.8 - You require admin permission to become a dictator as President.
- "You require admin permission to become a dictator as President." I'm almost certain you did not get permission.
A full list of the rules can be found here:Server Rules
I think you'd better go read them...
- Should these violations be valid I am considering filing a counter report against
Please feel free to send me a direct message if you have anymore questions.
When Justice Calls, Only The Guilty Hear ~
Best Regards
Office of Stanley Hudson Ford, Marion County Sheriff