Mike Chitwood

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Michael Jude Chitwood (born November 30, 1963) is an American politician and law enforcement officer who currently serves as the sheriff of Volusia County, Florida. He previously served as chief of police of the Daytona Beach Police Department from 2006 to 2016 and as chief of police of the Shawnee, Oklahoma, Police Department from 2005 to 2006. Chitwood is currently a registered independent. As Daytona Beach chief of police, Chitwood faced a heavily publicized incident on the campus of the historically black Bethune–Cookman University, in which he was alleged to have made racist comments. The NAACP asked United States attorney general Eric Holder to probe Chitwood's "racially tinged" comments about the disturbance. In 2016, he was elected Volusia County sheriff. Since assuming office, Chitwood has maintained many public feuds with state prosecutors, judges, and politicians. In 2019, Chitwood was reprimanded by Seventh Judicial Circuit Court chief judge Raul Zambrano for interfering with...

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