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ZIEGLER CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES AS SPD INVESTIGATION IS UTTER DISGRACE
SPD CONSPIRED WITH BARFIELD AND OTHERS TO RAILROAD CHRISTIAN ZIEGLER
SPD CONSPIRED WITH BARFIELD AND OTHERS TO TAKE DOWN BRIDGET ZIEGLER
THIS IS THE SAME SPD THAT ALLOWED SEXUAL PREDATOR AND RAPIST OF CHILDREN -PORTER TO WALK THE STREETS OF SARASOTA FOR OVER 30 YEARS
SPD AND SHT WERE MORE INTERESTED IN ZIEGLERS'S SEX LIFE THAN CHASING DOWN PORTER FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING AND RAPING CHILDREN FOR OVER 30 YEARS
SHT FOLLOWED A 68 CONVICTED FELON NARRATIVE TO PUSH THEIR LEFT-WING LIBERAL AGENDA TO DESTROY THE ZIEGLER’S POLITCAL CAREERS
BRODSKY MEMO THAT VICTIM WAS INTOXICATED A COMPLETE LIE TO COVER UP SPD BOGUS INVESTIGATION
On 3/5/2024 when the 12th District Attorney Ed Brodsky threw out the Sarasota Police Department bogus attempt to charge Christian Ziegler with video voyeurism the reputation of the SPD fell in the gutter where it deserves to be.
Brodsky
The charge of video voyeurism sent to the Brodsky was the SPD attempt to limit the damage to its disgraceful investigation of Ziegler for sexual abuse and rape by suggesting the local States Attorney investigate possible video voyeurism.
The bogus SPD case against Ziegler was throw in the dumpster when the victim acknowledged, according to a memo that "it was possible she could have consented to one being taken."
According to the memo, "The video shows the phone was visible either in the Defendant's hand or on the bed where the sexual encounter occurred....." and ".... did not appear to be taken from any hidden device or secretive angle that would tend to show that a phone recording a video was being hidden from the Victim."
Brodsky investigation statement that, “Inconsistencies in the Victim’s account appear to be the result of substantial intoxication and trauma that the Victim was experiencing, which is corroborated by the accounts of those who interacted and spoke with her in the immediate aftermath of the sexual encounter" is another lie in this case and just another attempt to coverup the SPD disgraceful investagation.
How is it that this intoxicated alleged victim after alleging getting raped walks out with Ziegler and as Ziegler walks to his truck the alleged victim walks over 200 yards to cross Ringling Boulevard to pick up a pizza she had ordered before Ziegler showed up.
Then the alleged intoxicated victim after talking with the owner of Mozzarella Pizzeria, she then walks across Ringling Boulevard and the 200 yards back to her apartment on an injuried foot.
Someone needs to ask Brodsky who were "those who interacted" with the so called intoxicated alleged victim immediately after the sexual encounter and "corroborated" she was intoxicated. It certainly was not the owner of the Mozzarella Pizzeria, who informed the SPD detectives on two occasions that he believed the alleged victim was not intoxicated.
SPD FED 68 CONVICTED FELON INFORMATION TO DESTROY ZIEGLERS
As for the decision of the Sarasota Police Department on 2/5/2024 not to press the sexual abuse and rape charges against Christian Ziegler, that decision should have been made months before the bogus FALSE allegations were dismissed.
Barfield
The refusal the SPD to arrest Ziegler came after three months of leaked information from a Sarasota Police Department to a 68 CONVICTED felon Michael Barfield, which was despite the SPD assurance to Ziegler back in October of 2023 that NO information in their investigation would be released until they completed their investigation, which was completed on 3/4/2024.
Thus, one of most inexcusable hit jobs ever perpetrated against politicians, a political operative with 68 CONVICTED felonies, Michael Barfield was fed leaked information directly or indirectly from the Sarasota Police Department months before the SPD investigation ended.
BARFIELD'S NARRATIVE HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH GUILT OR INNOCENCE-ALL TO DO WITH THE PRIVATE SEX LIFES OF THE ZIEGLER'S
The story had to get out about the Ziegler's private sex lifes before Christian Ziegler was cleared of the charges, especially about Bridget Ziegler being involved with the alleged victim and Christian Ziegler in a sexual encounter. That salacious Barfield narrative ended the political career of the Ziegler's before Christian Ziegler was claered of the bogus charges.
It was unfortunate for the Ziegler’s that there were numerous political enemies of the Ziegler's, who wanted to lynch the Ziegler's, as they rushed to judgement. They desired that the victim's bogus charges and lies be published by the local political dirt bag "Hit Man" Barfield before Ziegler was cleared of those charges
That salacious Barfield narrative ended the political career of the Ziegler's before Christian Ziegler was claered of the bogus charges.
BARFIELD SOURCES CAME DIRECTLY OR INDIRECLY FROM SPD
Barfield said, "the leaks came from unnamed sources close to the investigation." It is way past time that this dirt bag political operative Barfield reveals his "sources close to the investigation", which no doubt came directly or indirectly from the SPD.
City Hall
SARASOTA CITY MANAGER MARLON BROWN NEEDS TO FIND OUT WHO AT THE SPD LEAKED INFORMATION TO BARFIELD
Brown
It is also way past for for Marlon Brown, who mnanges Sarasota City Hall to investigate who at the SPD leaked that information to the “Con Man’s Con Man” to take down the Ziegler’s.
TROUBLING AND DISTURBING SPD TRANSCRIPTS
Determining who leaked information to Barfield is essential due to recently released SPD transcripts not mentioned in the salacious Barfield narrative, that despite clear evidence from the beginning of the investigation in early October of 2023, the SPD continued to attempt to take down Ziegler.
SPD FRUSTRATED WITH ALLEGED VICTIM
For example, records released last week that is not mentioned in the Barfield narrative include four interviews with the alleged victim and SPD on Oct. 5, Oct. 25, Nov. 1 and Dec. 4 show the SPD detectives are clearly frustrated at times by the alleged victim's inability to remember key details about the encounter and the timeline of events.
Not mentioned in the Barfield naarrative that at the end of the Oct. 25 interview, a detective tells the alleged victim that "being completely blunt, you're going to have to work on trying to remember what happened."
The transcribe states that the, “Detectives eventually pieced together a timeline and description of events in a final police report that they released in February.”
That so called “final police report” is after the SPD leaked the salacious information to Barfield and the left wing liberal Ziegler haters at the SHT began to follow the Barfield narrative, as the crazies from S.O.S and Zander Moricz's groomed agatators began their three hour harangues at the Sarasota County School Board meetings.
"Police records show former GOP Chair Christian Ziegler's accuser wanted to drop rape case"
SPD ENCOURAGES ALLEGED VICTIM TO GO FORWARD 100%
At that 10/25/2023 meeting with two Sarasota Police detectives, one of the detectives’ stated to the alleged victim, "you called... and said that you didn't want to go through with the... You didn't want to do anything. Is that still your mindset."
The alleged victim asks detectives what they think.
"If somebody raped me, I would want them to pay for it," the detective says.
"One hundred percent," says another detective.
SPD KNEW WITHIN DAYS THE ALLEGED VICTIM WAS LYING
The SPD knew within days that that the charges of sexual battery and rape against Christian Ziegler were COMPLETLY fabricated by the alleged victim. Those lies she told the SPD should have led to her arrest.
The SPD once they reviewed the videos’ surveillance tapes they obtained from the LYRA Apartment only days after the alleged sexual abuse, they knew the alleged victim was lying.
For example, the LYRA apartment’s surveillance video where the alleged victim lives shows Ziegler knocking on the woman’s door and allowed to walk inside, which contradicts Barfield’s narrative that the woman’s claim to police on 10/5/2023 that Ziegler walked into her apartment after she opened the door to walk her dog and put her over a bar stole and raped her.
That narrative was eagerly picked up by Ziegler’s haters at the Sarasota Herald Tribune and other media outlets rushing to judgement of Ziegler.
What the alleged victim told the SPD detectives on 10/5/2023 also contradicts what the allege victim told a friend on 10/4/2023 that Ziegler entered her apartment after she returned with pizza she had picked up from a local pizzeria.
What the SPD actually sees in the surveillance video is not the tale the alleged victim spun. The SPD sees that the woman is so upset in alleging being sexually assaulted and raped that she exits the apartment together with Ziegler 38 minutes after Ziegler and her left the apartment. While Ziegler leaves the apartment complex out a side door to his truck, the woman can be seen walking across the street to pick up her pizza.
The alleged victim walked allegedly intoxicated over 200 yards to cross Ringling Boulevard to Mozzarella’s Pizzeria and picks up her pizza. She talks with the owner of the establishment, as she waited to get her late lunch after her "encounter" with Ziegler.
At the Mozzarella Pizzeria the alleged victim made no comments of the horrific incident she has allegedly encountered that she would tell the SPD a few days later. The owner of the establishment has told the Sarasota Phoenix he witnessed the alleged victim was not in any turmoil or acted distressed and not intoxicated.
LYRA APARTMENTS
The alleged victim received her pizza after talking with the owner, paid with a credit card and walked back to her LYRA apartment across a traffic busy Ringling Boulevard. According to the owner of the pizzeria, the alleged victim navigated the trip back to her apartment with the pizza on a foot she had just injured.
What is a total indictment of the local, state and national media that followed the Barfield narrative, is that the only media outlet to speak to the owner of the Mozzarella Pizzeria was the Sarasota Phoenix.
Not one SHT reporter walked a few blocks to check out what the victim said and how she acted to the owner of the Mozzarella Pizzeria only minutes after the alleged rape took place.
Just like the SHT for over 30 years never checked out Henry Lee Porter sexually molesting and raping children for over 30 years at his church and school a few blocks from the SHT.
SPD IGNORED THAT NO WAY WAS ALLEGED VICTIM INTOXICATED
The SPD knew all about the alleged victim trip to Mozzarella’s Pizzeria to pick up her late lunch after the alleged sexual encounter with Ziegler.
The SPD knew the alleged victim was in no state of total outrage, as reported a few days later to the SPD. The SPD were aware of that, due to speaking with the owner of the Pizzeria a few days after the alleged sexual assault and rape and a few weeks later.
The SPD and Brodsky did not have any witnesses that could collaborated accounts by those who interacted and spoke with the alleged victim in the immediate aftermath of the alleged sexual encounter that she was intoxicated. They did not have any, because there were none.
CONTROLLED CALLS IN ATTEMPT TO TRAP ZIEGLER
The alleged victim and the SPD also came up with no evidence to arrest Ziegler in conducting three controlled conversations between Zigler and the woman. The conversations produced no evidence Ziegler committed sexual battery or rape.
In attempting to nail Ziegler in forcing sex on the alleged victim, while she was under the influence of alcohol and drugs, the SPD made second trip led by SPD detective Angela Cox to the Mozzarella’s Pizzeria to have conversation with the owner of the Pizzeria.
Cox asked the owner if he saw signs of the alleged victim being intoxicated or under the influence of drugs. Once again, the owner of the Pizzeria stated that he observed no signs of intoxication or signs that the alleged victim was under the influence of drugs.
After Cox continued pressuring the owner of the Pizzeria for a period of time to state that the alleged victim might have been was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Cox and her fellow SPD officer were asked to leave.
No mentioned in the Barfield narrative of SPD dectectives talking twice to the owner of the pizzeria.
If the SPD did not have enough information that Ziegler could not be arrested, a video shows up that without a doubt that charges of sexual battery and rape against Christian Ziegler are COMPLETLY fabricated by the alleged victim.
The video of the sex act is brief in duration and the victim, who accused Ziegler of sexual battery and rape can be heard telling Ziegler to “climax in her mouth rather than on her new shirt.” So much for the Barfield narrative picked up by the SHT that Ziegler throwing her over a bar stole sexually abusing and raping her.
SPD FED BARFIELD SALACIOUS INFORMATION TO TAKE DOWN ZIEGLER'S
The SPD unable to arrest Ziegler due to lack of evidence then fed their longtime Hit Man, who is the 68 CONVCTED felon Barfield with salacious information. "The Con Man’s Con Man" then fed the liberal propogandist’s at the Sarasota Herald Tribune his salacious narrative.
Brown
SHT propogandist's pushing Barfield salacious narrative/Zac Anderson/Chris Anderson/Steven Walker
The Ziegler haters at the SHT, who are Zac Anderson, Chris Anderson and Steven Walker were sent out by the SHT editor Roger Brown to feed Barfield’s salacious narrative, not only on Christian Ziegler, but also on Bridget Ziegler.
S.O.S left-wing fanatic Schurr going off at a School Board meeting
Bridegt Ziegler was red meat that Barfield and SHT wanted to feed left wing fanatics, who have an unusual obsession with Bridget Ziegler. Their jealousy of Bridget Ziegler by S.O.S leaders like Lisa Schurr and Paulina Testerman has turned into a scary rage.
An example of a Shurr led mob at a Sarasota School Board meeting
The SHT fueled not only the flames of the culture war they started two years ago, they also fed “red meat” from the Barfield narrative to the left-wing fanatics, who have turn Sarasota County School Board meeting into a Witch Hunt similar to the Salem Witch Hunt.
God only know when these fanatics will attempt to suggest burning Bridget Ziegler at the stake.
Moricz
S.O.S unhinged left-wing fanatics
These inhinged left-wing fanatics fed by the SHT propaganda are led by Schurr, Tessterman and the Harvard dropout Zander Moricz and other crazies from S.O.S.. Schurr and her fellow unhinged nut case Testerman and other fellow travelers look like they came from the bar scene at a Star War movie.
Edwards the UNIPARTY candidate for re-election to the Sarasota County School Board
Zander and his groomed unhinged fanatics, who spent hours at School Board meeting spewing their hatred toward the Ziegler’s are only concerned in pushing their LGBTQ political agenda and the re-election of their UNIPARTY candidate for the School Board, Tom Edwards.
Local UNIPARTY and LGBTQ political operatives are financing Moricz, not only with money, political advice but also an office in Downtown Sarasota where Zander grooms’ young local students in how to verbally attack Bridget Ziegler at School Board meetings, how to push the LGBTQ agenda and re-elect Edwards.
BYRD’S STATEMENT SAID IT ALL: “ON DAY ONE MR. ZIEGLER WAS COMPLETELY INNOCENT”
Ziegler's defense attorney Derek Byrd said it all in the rush to judgement of Ziegler in this statement: "Mr. Ziegler is relieved to be completely cleared of the false allegations and any criminal wrongdoing. We cooperated at every stage of the investigation and as difficult as it was, we remained quiet out of respect for the investigation."
"On day one, we said that Mr. Ziegler was completely innocent. We asked everyone not to rush to judgement, and reminded everyone to presume Mr. Ziegler innocent - as the Constitution instructs. Unfortunately, many did not award that courtesy to Mr. Ziegler, damaging his family, career, and reputation throughout this process."
SPD USING A 68 CONVICTED FELON HIT MAN TO COVER UP A SCANDALOUS BOGUS INVESTAGATION
Barfield
Christian and Bridget Ziegler's political, personal and financial lives are in tatters, not because of crimes committed. The Ziegler’s personal, political and financial lives are in tatters due to a dirt bag political operative Michael Barfield leading a narrative and the SHT following that narrative--not about guilt or innocence.
Barfield's narrative was all about bogus charges and lies in a SPD criminal investigation, which was salaciously sensationalized before Ziegler was cleared of criminal charges.
SPD USING A 68 CONVICTED FELON HIT MAN TO COVER UP A SCANDALOUS BOGUS INVESTAGATION
In one of most scandalous hit jobs ever perpetrated against politicians, Ziegler was taken out by inept SPD and yellow journalism at the SHT and beyond, who followed a salacious narrative of a 68 count CONVICTED felon and a “CON MAN’S CON MAN”, Michael Barfield.
Barfield using unnamed anonymous sources that came directly or indirectly from the SPD led to a public lynching of Christian and Bridget Ziegler.
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