Governor-elect Mike Braun announced Thursday he would appoint Anthony Scott, an Indiana State Police captain and Versailles and Sellersburg district commander, to become the agency’s superintendent.
Scott has worked in the agency for nearly three decades. He’s been a trooper, a detective, an investigative commander and a lieutenant. He became a captain in 2014. In that time, he has supervised the Indianapolis 500 and presidential visits, along with assisting at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this year.
Scott graduated from the FBI National Academy in 2019 and was a board member on the Greensburg Community Schools Safety Committee.
He will succeed Doug Carter, who has been in the position for more than a decade since former Governor Mike Pence appointed him. Carter announced he would step down from the position late last month. Carter’s term came under controversy in the wake of ISP’s response to IU’s pro-Palestinian encampment in April, which resulted in the arrests of 57 protesters for trespassing, among other charges.
Faculty and students denounced the response. The Monroe County Prosecutor’s office didn’t file charges against 55 of the protesters.
In spring, Carter told Indiana Public Media that antisemitic rhetoric he heard at the encampment prompted the arrests. Asked whether hate speech was protected under the First Amendment, Carter had said to “leave that for the lawyers.”
In other statements to news outlets, he relayed claims that protesters had said “we are Hamas” and told Fox59 that protesters wanted him dead. The Indiana Daily Student reporters didn’t observe any protesters saying “we are Hamas” when covering the encampment in April.
