welcome back, i m fredericka whitfield. the revelations nothing short of shocking. a man known to many as a model cop. this text says it all. work life has been a living hell the last two months. an audit was ready to reveal that he had been embezzling funds and recovered texts alleged that he tried to hire a hitman to kill the woman auditing department accounts. now his widow and son are said to be targets of investigators who want to find out how much they knew about the startling revelations. all of this painting a shameful picture of him. live from fox lake, illinois. so, he s a man who led two lives, didn t he? he lived two lives, fred, and got away with it.
the police department with new information this morning. reporter: good morning to you. i m going to step outside here. right now this morning we ve watched as people on their way to work, paramedics, also deputies working overnight, they dropped off flowers and paid their respects to 45-year-old charles condick. he s been described to us as a model cop, a 17-year veteran of the tarpin springs police force. he spent time prior to that with the new york city police department, a man that co-workers here in florida have called a married father of six, an easy going guy, family man who enjoyed his job as a senior officer work the overnight shift. everything changed overnight sunday after he responded to a noise complaint. a man identified as marco pare i can t, junior opened fire. a bullet struck the officer just above his bullet proof vest.
there s great teachers and bad teachers. okay this is for the cops. there s great cops and there s some bad cops. look at that video, this was not a model cop. first of all, here s the other thing you need to understand. that police response that s why d. a. sshould not prosecute police officers. when they run for office they try to get their endorsements. mayors are afraid of police unions. not all mayors but they have lobbyists and money and know when the police union comes out against you when you re running for office the public goes oh, oh, what s going on. the history these federal prosecutions have been more successful. when we talk about policy changes we have to look at state grand juries and state investigations of police uses of excessive force and misconduct and ask if that s really the way