A newly disclosed development from decades ago — the killing of a teenager by Gregory Tony, then 14 and now the sheriff of Broward County — unleashed a torrent of dramatically different assessments on Sunday.
In one view, the incident shows someone who emerged, and ultimately thrived, as a law enforcement role model in Florida, after growing up in a crime-ravaged Philadelphia neighborhood.
The other view is that Tony improperly kept his role in the killing hidden when he was hired as a Coral Springs police officer — and again last year when he was appointed Broward sheriff by Gov.