Fort Worth City Council member Charles Lauersdorf was criticized over the weekend following his Facebook post saying the officer who fatally shot a convicted child sex offender was doing the Lord’s work.<\/p>\n
Lauersdorf made the post shortly after midnight on July 26 after he attended a press conference with Police Chief Eddie Garcia at the scene of the shooting in south Fort Worth.<\/a><\/p>\n Police were looking for 56-year-old Ricky Shane Lindsey on a felony warrant for cutting off his ankle monitor, Garcia told reporters late Saturday night.<\/p>\n Lindsey was convicted in McLennan County<\/a> in 2004<\/a> on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child, according to the Fort Worth police department’s sex offender registry.<\/p>\n He was released from prison in October 2024, but indicted in January 2026 for failing to register with the Fort Worth Police Department, according to court records.<\/p>\n Lindsey was spotted driving near Interstate 35W and Risinger Road about 8 p.m.<\/p>\n After a short vehicle pursuit, Lindsey stopped at a motel parking lot on the 100 block of Palette Drive, just south of the Everman Parkway exit, where police say he produced a weapon, Garcia said.<\/p>\n Police fired, Lindsey was struck, and died after receiving medical attention, Garcia said.<\/p>\n In his post, Lauersdorf characterized the shooting as the Lord’s work.<\/p>\n “Our Directed Response Unit took a sex offender off the street – Permanently – saving taxpayers money and keeping us safe. I couldn’t be more proud!” Lauersdorf said in his post.<\/p>\n One person called Lauersdorf’s post disgusting, arguing police don’t sign up to be “judge, jury and executioner.”<\/p>\n Lauersdorf responded by editing the post and saying he didn’t want to offend anyone, but that his sentiments remained the same.<\/p>\n “I personally have no love lost or sympathy for the loss of a child sex offender. None whatsoever. Full stop,” Lauersdorf said in a phone call with the Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n He emphasized his post was not glorifying Lindsey’s death, but more about celebrating the fact that officers survived the encounter unharmed.<\/p>\n “At the end of the day, one person was going to go home, and I’m happy it was one of our officers and not a child sex offender,” Lauersdorf said.<\/p>\n He reiterated that it’s not a police officer’s job to be the judge, jury and executioner.<\/p>\n “But if a sex offender is running from police, and then he reaches for a gun, I 100 times out of 100 times I want my police officer to come home safe,” Lauersdorf said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth City Council member Charles Lauersdorf was criticized over the weekend following his Facebook post saying the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6754,136967,7884,33382,116,118,117,2238,136968,1923,75731],"class_list":["post-388629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-charles-lauersdorf","tag-child-sex-offender","tag-eddie-garcia","tag-facebook-post","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-ricky-shane-lindsey","tag-sex-offender","tag-sex-offender-registry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}