Randy Smith’s resignation was part of plea deal after attack on podcaster Bobby Couvillion at a Madisonville restaurant
A suburban New Orleans sheriff who had held one of his community’s most prominent political offices for a decade has retired shortly after pleading guilty to battering a podcaster who often criticized him.
Randy Smith, 61, also agreed to serve more than a year of probation after admitting to a late May beating at a steakhouse where he had bought 18 alcoholic beverages on his tab on a Friday afternoon – which all but halted his four-decade policing career.
Smith had been sworn in as the elected sheriff of St Tammany parish, Louisiana, on 1 July 2016, succeeding a predecessor who eventually pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges and was separately convicted of serial child sexual molestation.
No worries, he will move a county over and continue his policing career.
Its really strange he retired.
He put a guy in the hospital and he’s still on the streets? Guess they don’t have enough room for pedos and folks who violently assault people when they have to detain all those concerning immigrant children.
Smith had been sworn in as the elected sheriff of St Tammany parish, Louisiana, on 1 July 2016, succeeding a predecessor who eventually pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges and was separately convicted of serial child sexual molestation.
Louisiana, ladies and gents.
I’m shocked these guys aren’t working for the current Trump administration, and I’m not looking it up because it wouldn’t shock me if they were.
Pretty fuckin far from “just” Louisiana.
And at least they have gas station crawfish pistolettes 😎 (make no mistake, Louisiana is largely a hole, formed from hatred and poverty)
So, still a step up from his predecessor, you say?
Red voters love them some child rapists.
Absent that they can settle for some good ole corruption fueled alcoholics.
What a fucking pussy. Sheriffs are the most corrupt arm of law enforcement. Every sheriff can suck my dick.
What exactly is a sheriff? We don’t have them here. Are they like State police?
Sheriff’s typically handle the courts and transport of prisoners, whereas police handle law enforcement. In cities too small to have their own police force, the county sheriffs will fill the law enforcement role also.
They are like county level executive branch. Which is the level below state. In the case of Louisiana it’s parish instead of county. They basically have really high levels of authority in their jurisdiction. And it’s usually an elected position.
Kinda, but they’re at the county/parish level
he announced intention to kill the man, and he’s not on trial for attempted murder. cool.
Citing accounts from the victim and multiple eyewitnesses, Smith also reportedly punched and with his boots kicked a prone Couvillion in the face and body. “I’m going to kill you, you motherfucker,” Couvillion reported Smith saying. “You’re a dead motherfucker.”
There’s simply no way to know his intentions.
Does that mean that if someone beats up the ex-sheriff now they will also get to retire as a “punishment”?
Targeted political violence? A-ok
Does he still get his full pension? If so, definitely not a punishment to be forced to retire for being a fucking coward and assaulting someone when their back is turned.
Sounds more like a reward than a punishment.
He shouldn’t be able to retire to a peaceful life. He should be ruined.
Things like this feed the idea that the justice system won’t produce justice, so if you want it you better get it yourself.
You say that as though the “idea” isn’t true.
Many people still do not believe it, though. Especially white people.
You’re not wrong, but that’s definitely changing.
Well that’s just Louisiana.
Moved to the south in 1986. After a while you figure out the lay of the land.
Kentucky wasn’t that bad, very horse oriented.Alabama, don’t leave the city or you will hear banjos.
Louisiana and Mississippi you really need to watch what you say if you want to stay alive. If this happened in Mississippi that guy would be dead, and the body buried in the swamp.
Tennessee very tourist oriented, but stick to Nashville, Gatlinburg and the Parks.
Florida, if anything, the Florida man reputation is under exaggeration. These people are really into self harm.
Tennessee has a bigger Nazi problem.
Louisiana is ran like a third world country. Private schools are used for regular kids rather than bad kids because the school systems are horrific. Government is corrupt and everything is a scam.
Alabama still has slavery and should be avoided except for Huntsville and Birmingham. Probably just don’t go at all.
Unless you’re paying to live in Southern California, all warm states in the US are inhabited by illiterate fascists. Maybe New Mexico gets a pass.
Citing accounts from the victim and multiple eyewitnesses, Smith also reportedly punched and with his boots kicked a prone Couvillion in the face and body. “I’m going to kill you, you motherfucker,” Couvillion reported Smith saying. “You’re a dead motherfucker.”
Beside interviewing bystanders and securing surveillance video, LBI agents wrote in a sworn statement that Couvillion had been taken to a hospital. Medical records showed he had sustained a concussion and two displaced front teeth, the agents said
I wonder, if I attacked someone, unprovoked, while saying “You’re a dead motherfucker”, would I too get probation? Doubt.
I hope the podcaster just completely leans in on it now. He can just keep rehashing it all, knowing that Sherrif Snowflake is hate-listening to it.
He’s just asking questions, right? Isn’t that the thing that the fascists always say? What?? I’m just asking questions! Can a bird be a fly? Yes or no! Just asking questions!
Knowing cops, he’ll continue to have his buddies on the force harass him. If he doesn’t continue to do it himself.
I have ignored hundreds of personal attacks directed at me by an individual who hides behind a computer screen,” Smith’s apology said.
Smith was said to have approached Couvillion from behind while the latter man was seated on an elevated stool at the restaurant bar celebrating his 59th birthday with his wife. Smith then, without warning, placed Couvillion in a chokehold and slammed him to the ground backward
Implying the guy’s cowardly for talking “behind a computer screen” (as though that’s not how most communication works in 2026) but also literally attacking the dude from behind. Whats a sensitive, hypocritical little bitch.
Also, as someone in a position of public office, he’s exposed to criticism and people have every right to direct criticism at him from behind their computer screens. That’s kind of what the whole first amendment is about…
Also, that doesn’t read like an apology. It reads like he’s saying “That fucker deserved it and I’d do it again”
Sims told reporters on Wednesday that Smith’s guilty plea was an important public reminder that “everyone will be held accountable for their actions, regardless of your title”.
“We didn’t want to have special treatment of the sheriff,” Sims said. “We treat him like we treat every other citizen that commits an act like that.”
But he did get special treatment.
If that’s how every citizen who commits an act like that gets treated, then how about someone choke-slams him from behind? All they’ll get is a slap on the wrist, right?
Oh, that?! That’s just the gaslighting, lol. Hey look over here, a shiny penny!!
Louisiana taking ACAB to the next level
