PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Pembroke Park Mayor Ashira Mohammed spoke to Local 10 News on Thursday, at some point after a fellow commissioner’s name to legislation enforcement, claiming she had a gun, precipitated police to forestall the assembly and seek her handbag.
Wednesday night time’s assembly went off the rails after Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs, whose tumultuous time on town dais has been documented in a variety of Local 10 investigations, referred to as the Broward Sheriff’s Office to file that Mohammed had a gun with her.
The south Broward the city’s police leader, Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan, stopped the assembly with a view to discuss with Jacobs, who informed her and the fee he additionally notified the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. She later searched Mohammed out of view of the cameras ahead of commissioners returned from the recess.
But Mohammed insisted the manager undergo her handbag publicly in entrance of the fee chambers, one thing Dabney-Donovan reminded her she wasn’t required to do.
The mayor mentioned she sought after to “clear the air” and turn out to the general public that Jacobs’ allegation used to be baseless. Dabney-Donovan, showing uncomfortable, went via Mohammed’s handbag, discovering no gun.
Jacobs regarded down whilst the manager searched Mohammed’s handbag.
“She needed to do her job. A call was made. She has to investigate it. That’s her job,” Mohammed informed Local 10 News throughout an interview Thursday morning. “So I’m gonna cooperate, because that’s my job.”
The name to police got here quickly after a testy back-and-forth between Jacobs and Mohammed — who continuously conflict at the city fee conferences — over allegations made towards Jacobs, together with that he carried out paintings at his house with out a allow.
Mohammed informed Local 10 News she had no thought what precipitated Jacobs to assume she had a gun.
“We didn’t have any conversation at all (before the meeting),” she mentioned.
The mayor mentioned Jacobs mentioned not anything to her later on about why he referred to as, both. She famous that the chambers have been stuffed with law enforcement officials receiving commendations that he can have spoken to if he felt worry for his existence and likewise famous that he sat subsequent to her on the dais all of the time.
“He should be embarrassed for filing a false report. I’m not embarrassed about it,” Mohammed mentioned. “I’m upset about it because it’s harassment. But I’m not embarrassed about it because I wanted to make sure that the record was clear, right?”
An outdoor company present in August that Jacobs, throughout his time as mayor and commissioner, engaged in an in depth collection of “threatening, humiliating, or intimidating behaviors” against fellow elected officers and town workforce individuals. That ended in a public censure vote by way of fellow commissioners.
During the assembly, Mohammed publicly chastised Jacobs.
“You have gone around and told people I have stolen money. You have gone around telling people I’m going to jail,” she mentioned throughout Wednesday night time’s assembly. “You have lied and accused people of having affairs on this dais and it needs to stop.”
During the assembly, she additionally inspired Jacobs to hunt psychological well being care, a place she reiterated throughout Thursday’s interview.
“He needs to seek help,” Mohammed mentioned. “He needs to seek mental counseling, because he’s not a bad person, but his behavior is just insane. It’s not normal.”
Mohammed mentioned his habits is reflecting poorly on town of about 6,300 folks, hanging its “reputation and credibility on the line,” in all probability maintaining companies clear of Pembroke Park.
“Everyone’s looking at us and they’re like, ‘What’s going on? This town is crazy. Oh, we need to dissolve this town,’” Mohammed mentioned. “It’s not the town’s fault. We have one person who is basically bringing down the entire town. And our reputation (has) now (gone) from being, you know, the ‘Small Town That Means Big Business’ (its motto) to ‘Bozoville.’”
According to Florida International University, Pembroke Park used to be widely recognized by way of the unflattering “Bozoville” nickname from the Nineteen Seventies to the Nineties, owing to its previous historical past of” “unruly politics” and “mismanagement.”
Local 10 News reached out to Jacobs for remark Wednesday and Thursday. He directed us to his lawyer, Michael Pizzi, who didn’t go back our requests for remark.
We additionally asked a recording of the police name, however the city officers mentioned it will no longer be launched as it used to be a part of an investigation.
A supply mentioned police are taking a look at whether or not Jacobs referred to as BSO with out purpose.
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