DISGUSTING: How one Florida County Sheriff's office is preparing for Irma

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39. No, I'm saying that the Sheriff is using sexual predators as a veil

Nobody likes the idea of sexual predators sharing shelter space with children. My reading is that the Polk County Sheriff is using that as his screen to threaten anyone who might have an outstanding warrant (valid or invalid) to avoid going to a shelter, because they will get locked up.

Who do you supposed is more likely and less likely to have a background check run on them when they show up at a shelter run by the Polk County Sheriff? Under the rubric of protecting children from sexual predators, what is the real-world expected outcome of the sheriff's men running checks? Please choose from the following:

A. Sex offenders who are on the list will be locked up, whether there's a warrant out on them or not, for the crime of seeking shelter from the hurricane.

B. Sex offenders who are on the list will avoid seeking shelter, fearful that even if they don't have a warrant out for them they'll be locked up, and will be exposed to the hurricane.

C. Individuals who have warrants out for their arrest, whether they know about the warrant or not, will be locked up when they seek shelter.

D. Individuals who are worried that they might have a warrant out on them will not seek shelter because they don't want to be tossed in jail, and will instead be exposed to the hurricane.

If you don't see a racist lurking behind the Sheriff's tweets, you haven't been paying very close attention for the last 20 years or so.