Now state employee managers are arming themselves with weapons and as described in this news article are not afraid to take the law into their own hands, or as this case seems to imply, literally into their own hands.
The State of Wisconsin employs trained and professional law enforcement officers to maintain the law and provide for safety of workers and visitors at the State Capitol, but as this news article describes a "non-represented" state employee chose to take the law into his own hands rather than summon a professional and trained law enforcement officer to handle the absolutely dangerous (stated with a smirk on my face) situation of a female citizen armed with a "balloon", possibly a "heart-shaped" balloon. (Oh my god...)
This action on the part of a state manager begs the question; "What is more dangerous, a state manager armed with a knife and apparently unable to walk and carry a knife at the same time or a female citizen holding a balloon, possibly a heart-shaped balloon?"
Is DOA the first of possibly many state departments that will no longer provide for a safe environment for workers and visitors since their IS NO LONGER a collectively bargained agreement to ensure worker safety? Absolutely ridiculous that state managers are now running around armed with deadly weapons. One has to assume that the female citizen simply was not asked; "ma'am will you please take your balloon outside"?
The issue of why balloon's have now been identified as a detriment in the State Capitol is a whole other issue in itself to be discussed at some other time.
Posted by Steven Williams (Retired State Trooper)
Political Education Legislative Coordinator
AFSCME Council 24 AFL-CIO
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