Source: The Washington Post
By Peter Holley
Clay Higgins had only been on the job a few weeks when it became clear that he wasn’t meant for scripts.
It was early 2015, and Higgins — newly appointed as spokesman for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office — had begun appearing in weekly crime stoppers videos that were broadcast across southern Louisiana.
He initially tried following the script his predecessors had used, but using someone else’s language felt constricting and unnatural to the veteran lawman who was still adjusting to life outside of a patrol car.
“It was not me. It was not my words. I’m not an actor,” Higgins told The Washington Post in 2015. “I said, ‘I’m going to speak my mind,’ and so that’s what I did.”
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