Sitting at a roundtable discussion Saturday inside Kent United Church of Christ, Delena War was surprised. Ohio sheriffs, she said, seem above the law; voters’ only recourse is to vote in a new sheriff every four years or hold a recall election.
“It’s like the Sheriff of Nottingham in ‘Robin Hood,'” War said. “That’s how he was able to run amok, and the peasants had no recourse until Robin Hood came along.”
Nearly two dozen people attending the “Portage County Action Team: Power of Sheriffs” event said Ohio sheriffs should be held more accountable. But at the heart of the event were the inflammatory social media posts by Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski.
For many attendees, Zuchowski was not and is still not being held accountable for his actions.
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Zuchowski suggested in a now-deleted Facebook post that residents should write down the addresses of neighbors with Kamala Harris signs in their yards. In it, he referred to undocumented migrants as “locust.”