Former officer J.D. Gaines was the subject of a thread among Sgt. Christie Wood & others on Huckleberries. In his defense here is a portion of his comment from that thread today:

"An unintended consequence of this ordinance now changes that cultural and societal norm and automatically strips the officer of what was an easily articulatable reasonable suspicion. Sure, with the new ordinance, the officer could still make that stop, but absent other articulated facts to enable the stop, any evidence obtained as a result of that stop would likely be suppressed at trial. As I said Tuesday night, this ordinance moves the goalpost. Not intentionally, and not just for the LGBT community, but for everyone, particularly sexual predators, who now only have to claim a sexual identity to be wherever they want to be to work their trade – restrooms, locker rooms, gyms, changing rooms, you name it. This is not a good thing, particularly since, as I stated Tuesday, this city has a radically disproportionate number of registered sex offenders compared to most areas of this state. I used a public restroom as a simple, obvious example. I will admit that that example was beaten to death throughout the night." Full comment here.

Thoughts?