Officer in Zimmerman trial wore questionable ribbons

[Patoz]

Officer who testified in Zimmerman trial wore questionable ribbons, including one from WWII

While watching the Martin-Zimmerman trial this week, combat veteran and Navy Cross recipient, Jeremiah Workman noticed a particularly disturbing decoration on Doris Singleton’s Sanford Police Department uniform when she took the stand. Singleton’s uniform had two ribbons — the World War II Army of Occupation Medal and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal – which Workman knew could not belong to someone who had only served in the Army for three years.

Gina Harkins, who writes for The Military Times, saw the post and contacted Workman, who had already talked with the Sanford Police Department by telephone. He told Harkins that according to the conversation he had with a Sanford PD official, since the department doesn’t have their own awards system, they simply went to the Army-Navy store and picked out Defense Department military ribbons. The official also stated that they intentionally chose World War II ribbons because there are not many veterans still alive from that era and they did not think anyone would notice.

http://www.guns.com/2013/07/03/offi...questionable-ribbons-including-one-from-wwii/

Nobody would notice...ya think?

 

[JohnAL]

busted

 

[FrankT]

Stolen Valor and from a PD too...good grief!

 

[Bluewater Tactical]

It's not stolen valor. They decided to copy us military ribbons for their own purpose as a cost saving measure. IIRC they stopped doing it because of the backlash.

They weren't trying to perpetrate that the officer's earned a WWII medal, just using the design for their own ribbons.

That being said, there are ribbons for LE out there already they could have used. It's not like they give out a bunch of them I am sure.

 

[FrankT]

I know but it was a stoopid move stealing US Military ribbons for their own use!