Daryl Spence Got Fired for Doing the Right Thing

Originally posted Aug. 7, 2009:

Former Ennis City Marshal candidate Daryl Ray Spence shares a lot in common with a New Hampshire police chief that will not be prosecuted for driving while intoxicated. Spence was fired from the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office for failing to charge two people with DWI despite the fact the vehicle the couple were in were actually not operating the vehicle.

To be charged with DWI, one must actually be driving the vehicle. It’s the law.

Instead, Spence wrote it up as a public intoxication. His sergeant railed against him for this. The superior officers at ECSO wanted this case filed as a DWI, but Spence refused. He went by the manual and by state law. The ECSO fired him, and even after an appeal to Sheriff Johnny Brown, R-Midlothian, he was still out of a job.

There was a police chief just last week that was arrested up here in New Hampshire, and the prosecutor in the county (the state has 10 counties) decided not to pursue the case because there was no DWI, or there was no evidence of a DWI. While people are going apeshit up here for it, the law is the law: you cannot have a DWI without the “D” part — the driving part. The police chief was arrested while in a parking lot, the keys being located in the console.

Spence wrote up an incident report, but his superiors later claimed they couldn’t find the summary of what Spence wrote. A Texas Open Records Act is your best friend, readers. Trust me.

So, all the misleading shit about Spence being written about will cease immediately. I will ban every mother F-er on this blog if I have to.

So, you wanna know why so much rage is directed towards Spence? It’s because he committed the sin of doing the right thing, showing where the ECSO superiors were violating their own manuals and state law, and a few other things I am not privy to say right now.

So now you guys know the true story.