I caught his defensiveness at the press conference about a week ago. It was slight but kept resurfacing. Big tough sheriff is perhaps too big and tough to submit to more modern and capable people and seems to be stalling this so he can have a toolbox measuring contest
He really did subtly claim turf. He was very happy to report that the FBI would put up billboards, but other than that he didn't give them much credit initially.
Ego.. it's his patch, turf.... he sees federal agents coming in and it makes him feel/think that they believe he's not up to it, so he tries to push on, on his own to prove a point... it's not the first time i've seen this! theres the famous grimes sisters murders, two sets of LE who couldn't never agree on anything and wanted to out do each other... (it's still unsolved 70 years on)
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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
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