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Florida Senate candidate Val Demings misspells fallen deputy’s name in tribute

U.S. Senate candidate Val Demings tripped over herself multiple times when paying tribute, as she said she always does, to fallen law-enforcement officers.

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Hartwick was killed Thursday evening by a front-end loader while providing traffic safety for construction crews on I-275. A previously-deported illegal immigrant from Honduras, 32-year-old Juan Ariel Molina-Salles, has been charged with fleeing the scene of a fatal accident.

According to Fox News Channel’s Jesse Waters on Tuesday night’s program, “we noticed that Democrat Val Demings, the Florida congresswoman and former cop who is running for Senate hadn’t said anything about his death.