ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Former St. Petersburg police chief and prominent community figure Goliath Davis was fired from his position as senior administrator of community enrichment Friday after a controversy that involved the funerals of three cops recently killed in the line of duty.
Davis did not attend the funerals for Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz and Sgt. Thomas Baitinger, but did attend the funeral of Hydra Lacy, the man who killed them.
A third officer, David Crawford, was killed less than one month later, and Davis did not attend that funeral either.
"I paid my respects to those families and those officers at a wake,” Davis said at a press conference today explaining his firing.
“My reasons for not attending the funerals of those officers were, in my opinion, legitimate,” he said, citing the death of a close officer 30 years ago. He carried the casket for that friend and does not want to relive that experience.
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