IMHO the lawsuit is the beginning of the end for Goldsmith and 80+ year old Sheriff Merit Board member Joseph Bumbleburg. Lt Randy Martin was a real hero and well liked. He busted a wrecked car window to get a baby boy out of the fiery wreck which killed the babies' mother and the other automobile driver. When Goldsmith came along and ran as a democrat and got elected by slim 168 votes-he seemed to politicize the Sheriff's Office. Attorney Joseph T. Bumbleburg has been on the Tippecanoe County sheriff merit board and the Election Board for over 50 years despite the Indiana Code 3-8-1-3 limitation that prohibits anyone from holding two lucrative offices at the same time (see Indiana Attorney General Office guideline on holding dual offices and both are the list of lucrative offices. I think Joe wanted his old friend Bobby Goldsmith to win and so people like Travis Dowell did help him campaign. Joe was on merit board and seemed to save Dowell law enforcement career after his criminal arrest for 2009 altercation with his daughter which included attempted strangulation allegation if I read the JC article correctly. Randy Martin lawsuit argument about retaliation is believable to me - his old job at the Town of Dayton is now held by former County Sheriff deputy Evan Tislow the brother of Detective Jeff Tislow who resigned from LPD in Aug 2019 and Bumbleburg seemed to help Jeff Tislow get hired and now works under Travis Dowell. Why did he resign from LPD? Ironic Detective Jeff Tislow's in laws bought Arni's pizza lunch for Goldsmith's office and afterward Goldsmith gives Jeff Tislow an award for being a hero and saving a life - but I am not sure he is on the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) that takes dispatch for callers threatening suicide and jumping from the County Building garage (9-15-2021). Seems more likely he gave Tislow overblown praise for being in the car at lunch when Goldsmith stopped by scene. Goldsmith is biased and has his favorites as he refused to do an internal investigation on Tislow trespassing and harassing his former neighbor's families. My sister ended up asking State Rep Klinker to intervene and try to convey to Goldsmith's favorite detective he needs to behave in manner which one expects of a law enforcement officer.
What Lt. Randy Martin did on body cam in that arrest was not something he should have been fired over and basically blackballed from law enforcement. Disciplined yes. but not terminated. I guess we will all have to stay tuned to how the court case moves along.
IMHO the lawsuit is the beginning of the end for Goldsmith and 80+ year old Sheriff Merit Board member Joseph Bumbleburg. Lt Randy Martin was a real hero and well liked. He busted a wrecked car window to get a baby boy out of the fiery wreck which killed the babies' mother and the other automobile driver. When Goldsmith came along and ran as a democrat and got elected by slim 168 votes-he seemed to politicize the Sheriff's Office. Attorney Joseph T. Bumbleburg has been on the Tippecanoe County sheriff merit board and the Election Board for over 50 years despite the Indiana Code 3-8-1-3 limitation that prohibits anyone from holding two lucrative offices at the same time (see Indiana Attorney General Office guideline on holding dual offices and both are the list of lucrative offices. I think Joe wanted his old friend Bobby Goldsmith to win and so people like Travis Dowell did help him campaign. Joe was on merit board and seemed to save Dowell law enforcement career after his criminal arrest for 2009 altercation with his daughter which included attempted strangulation allegation if I read the JC article correctly. Randy Martin lawsuit argument about retaliation is believable to me - his old job at the Town of Dayton is now held by former County Sheriff deputy Evan Tislow the brother of Detective Jeff Tislow who resigned from LPD in Aug 2019 and Bumbleburg seemed to help Jeff Tislow get hired and now works under Travis Dowell. Why did he resign from LPD? Ironic Detective Jeff Tislow's in laws bought Arni's pizza lunch for Goldsmith's office and afterward Goldsmith gives Jeff Tislow an award for being a hero and saving a life - but I am not sure he is on the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) that takes dispatch for callers threatening suicide and jumping from the County Building garage (9-15-2021). Seems more likely he gave Tislow overblown praise for being in the car at lunch when Goldsmith stopped by scene. Goldsmith is biased and has his favorites as he refused to do an internal investigation on Tislow trespassing and harassing his former neighbor's families. My sister ended up asking State Rep Klinker to intervene and try to convey to Goldsmith's favorite detective he needs to behave in manner which one expects of a law enforcement officer.
What Lt. Randy Martin did on body cam in that arrest was not something he should have been fired over and basically blackballed from law enforcement. Disciplined yes. but not terminated. I guess we will all have to stay tuned to how the court case moves along.