Is the Mission Inn haunted and other happenings
This just in from the Press Enterprise Belo Blog:
(excerpt)
Police used electric shock on pit bull
Police had to use an electric shock Sunday to stop an aggressive pit bull that tried to attack several people in Riverside.
The dog attempted to attack a pedestrian about 7 a.m. at Canyon Crest Drive and Mission Grove Parkway, according to a Riverside police report. A passing driver stopped to help the pedestrian, prompting the dog to jump in the back of his truck.
When police arrived, the dog jumped from the truck and tried to attack several other bystanders, according to the report. Police used a Taser to shock the dog before it was picked up by Riverside County Animal Control.
-John Asbury
jasbury@PE.com
Posted by PE.com at 10:39 AM
As this breaking story continues to develop, any news that comes out of it will be brought here.
The Riverside City Council is back on its regular schedule and hidden on the hefty consent calendar for tonight's meeting is the gentrification plan, or as it's officially called the University Avenue Charrette Project. Not that there aren't good projects included in this plan but apparently it looks quite a bit different in this "progress" report than it did when it was presented to community groups in the Eastside some time ago.
Since it's on the consent calendar, only an elected official or city staff person can pull it and that's not likely to happen. Not until a city council is elected that remembers it represents the residents who live in the city, not the development firms from Orange County and other places.
It's not said often enough that Marjorie Von Pohle is the heroine of free speech at city council meetings. This woman although nearly 90, was willing to risk being removed from the council chambers by police officers to stand for this principle. She's had people go up to the microphone at city council meetings and ridicule her and her mission to restore the consent calendar to the people yet she's remained fearless.
Hopefully, there will be people in the next generation to pick up where she leaves off.
Riverside's Mission Inn, otherwise known as the center of the downtown universe needs your help. Yes you, a mere mortal, can greatly assist the hotel by returning the "artifacts" which have allegedly been removed from the premises over the years. Thousands of items which have historic value need to find their way back home.
(excerpt)
Buoyed by the return of 400 artifacts to the Inn last year, the restoration group agreed to make the initiative official.
"It requires awareness and good will," said John Worden, executive director of the foundation and museum. "We're laying the ground work."
On Thursday, an exhibit featuring about 50 rescued objects will kick off the Mission Inn Museum's "Bring it Home" campaign. The eclectic collection includes a 1906 piano; the original Anton clock face carved in Germany in 1709; a 4-foot wooden eagle from the early 1900s; rare photographs; documents; and the 1887 hotel registry graced with legendary owner Frank Miller's signature.
One woman was sufficiently moved enough by the plea to return some bells she stole in the 1960s when she was a teenager. That is truly awesome. Learn from her example.
The current owners of the Mission Inn might not want you to know this, but it's allegedly haunted by a host of spirits walking its halls and apparently singing in the hotel as well.
More information about Inland Empire hauntings can be found here.
It seems like many people who work or have worked at the Mission Inn have a tale or two to tell about alleged bumps in the night or ghosts they have encountered from one end of the massive hotel to the other.
It's not known whether or not any investigations have been conducted to determine one way or the other whether or not the Mission Inn is haunted. Perhaps, while the city council is busy putting together task forces, it should put one together to address this issue. If the Mission Inn could be marketed as a haunted house, think of what that could do for Riverside Renaissance receipts. After all, at some point there should be at least as much money coming out of it as going into it.
If you think this is a necessary investment to ensure the future evolution of the new and improved Riverside we've been hearing and reading so much about, by all means contact your elected official about it.
Hunter Hobby Park will be renovated said Ralph Nunez who directs the Park and Recreation Department, but one city council candidate said that he wished he had a chance to review the project plans before it was brought to a vote, according to an article in the Press Enterprise.
(excerpt)
Mike Gardner, the club's president, said the city's plans will not hurt the park's railroad following, but he wishes he had seen the final plan before it went to the commission for approval.
The city staff worked closely with the club to come up with a plan for the park that would not take away from the railroad, but the final plan was not shown to the club, he said.
At Monday's meeting, Gardner asked the commission to delay the vote so he could take the plan to the club's board for review.
"It's something I believe the club will be pleased with," he told the commission. "I just haven't had the opportunity to take the document to the board."
The commission still voted 5-1, with Commissioner Victor Sainz dissenting, to move the project forward. Commissioner Angel Sanchez Jr. was absent.
"We want to make sure we are respectful (of the club), but my concern is moving this forward in a timely manner," Nuñez said at the meeting.
Gardner's facing off against incumbent Dom Betro in Ward One this November. Gardner's presence in the race and his concern about the city's parks has served as a catalyst for a lot of the improvements that have been proposed for them.
The workers from Windsor Food Factory are now on strike with over 400 employees pushing for better pay.
(excerpt)
We kind of saw it coming," said maintenance worker Adolfo Melcher. Nonetheless, the 25-year-old Riverside resident who has three young children said he hasn't built up any savings to tide him over during the strike.
He was outside the Windsor factory Monday afternoon with other workers during one of three shifts that will have strikers outside the facility all day.
Christina Martinez, 34, a maintenance worker with the company for eight years, picketed alongside fellow workers Monday afternoon. The mother of five from Hesperia said she expects that she'll eventually be forced to pay for some of her health coverage, but she wants enough of a wage increase to cover the costs.
She's told her children they're on a budget.
"They know it's going to be hard," she said.
The people of Yonkers are calling for stronger civilian review according to the Lower Hudson Online.
Not surprisingly, this news comes after the announcement last month that the Department of Justice is going to do an investigation into civil rights violations allegedly committed by the Yonkers Police Department.
Of course, the city government wants its own version of civilian oversight as well.
(excerpt)
Republican Larry Sykes, who is challenging Councilwoman Patricia McDow, D-1st District, is calling for a civilian complaint review board independent from the city's Police Department. Last year McDow introduced legislation in the City Council for a similarly independent board.
"It would have subpoena powers and it would have representatives from the Police Department sitting on the board," Sykes said of his proposal, which would resemble the civilian review board in New York City.
McDow's council proposal went nowhere last year, so last week she issued an appeal for volunteers to join the current police-civilian oversight committee. Still, she said that the city should consider an independent civilian review board.
"Maybe I need to revisit it," McDow said of her proposal for a civilian complaint board. "It wasn't completely independent, because I knew I couldn't get that passed."
That statement isn't surprising, given how many local governments want to water down civilian review or ignore it altogether until their communities speak out loud enough and long enough for them to finally decide they can't. Then they step forward and come out with their own version just as the Riverside city council did in 2000.
One of the reasons why writing about the fate of the Community Police Review Commission is so interesting is because it's a clear-cut example of something that is supported by the majority of this city's residents. In fact, the majority of the city's residents in every precinct in every ward voted it into the city's charter in 2004. They did so in response to all the publicity about the many attempts by the city government to politicize it, to undermine it and even to strip it of its operating budget. After watching the city council have its way, the residents of the city took their feelings on the matter to the polls.
Contrast the feelings of the residents with those expressed by the city council, the majority of which opposes both civilian oversight and the CPRC. Watch what's taken place during the history of the CPRC both before and after the passage of the charter amendment that put it a bit more out of their reach. But only a little bit.
So what's here is an example of something supported by the people which isn't being supported enough or at all by those elected to represent those people.
A traffic stop study being done in Massachusetts has been delayed due to problems receiving data from the state's law enforcement agencies, according to the Boston Globe. The heads of these agencies who had opposed the ambitious studies don't seem too surprised. The politicians of course aren't too happy with the embarrassment that this setback has caused them.
(excerpt)
The issue is particularly sensitive for Governor Deval Patrick, the state's first black governor and the former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton Justice Department. In an interview, Patrick's public safety secretary, Kevin M. Burke, said the program, launched under the Romney administration, has been a "step along the way."
Patrick, he said, now plans to ask police departments to voluntarily share their traffic data with the state. If he is not satisfied with their response, Patrick may require them to do so, Burke said.
"He won't wait forever," Burke said. "If our next step doesn't seem to be bearing fruit, then we'll look to move in another direction."
According to a review conducted by the Patrick administration, only 140 of the 247 police departments that had been targeted for special scrutiny followed the guidelines, which call for officers to fill out detailed reports every time they stop a driver. These reports include space to note the race and gender of the driver, the duration and reason for the stop, what type of road it happened on, and whether the car was searched and if so, what was found.
Another 104 police departments noted the race and gender of the driver and the reason for the stop, but rejected the more detailed aspects. Three departments told the state they did not record racial or gender data, and 12 departments never indicated what action, if any, they took, despite repeated promptings by the state. The numbers in the state's analysis added up to more than 247 because some departments used more than one method; for example, some might have used the detailed reports briefly and then switched to a different method.
Riverside's police department conducted similar study annually under its five-year stipulated judgment with the state attorney general's office. However, in the past several years no study has been released and the last one conducted was completed in March 2006 but was never released to the public.
The police department has said that it will use data compiled from 2006-07 to conduct a study which will be released to the public next March. The $25,000 allocated for the study has been in the department's budget since 2006.
In Houston, a police officer working for a school district was suspended because he was distributing copies of a "Ghetto" Handbook titled, "Wucha dun did now"
(excerpt)
This publication was completely reprehensible and HISD condemns it in the strongest possible terms," Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said in a written statement Thursday.
He said he has "mounted a very aggressive investigation."
District Police Chief Charles Wiley had no comment, Abbott said.
The booklet billed itself as a guide to Ebonics, teaching the reader to speak "as if you just came out of the hood." It included definitions such as "foty: a 40-ounce bottle of beer"; "aks: to ask a question"; and "hoodrat: scummy girl."
The booklet names six district officers "and the entire day shift patrol" as contributors. Abbott said a preliminary investigation has cleared those officers of involvement.
Only several years after the dissolution of its federal consent decree, the Pittsburgh Police Department is under the microscope for how it addresses domestic violence within its ranks, according to a detailed article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
After perusing court records, the newspaper discovered that at least 34 police officers have been investigated for stalking, harassment, making threats and for physical and emotional abuse. Even more significant, having been investigated for any of this behavior, much of which is illegal, some of them still have been getting promoted.
(excerpt)
Council held a June 28 public hearing on the promotions. Today's 1:30 p.m. meeting will be open to the public, but the only people allowed to comment will be invited guests, including Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., Mr. Malloy, Citizen Police Review Board Executive Director Elizabeth Pittinger, and representatives of women's shelters and advocacy organizations.
"This is not a police-bashing thing," said council President Doug Shields, who set up the meeting. "We want to take a look at this to better understand the dynamic of domestic violence and the policy piece, and what we can do to make this better."
Police "take an oath to serve and protect," said Diane Wetendorf, a Chicago-based expert on officer-involved domestic violence who will not be at today's hearing. "It's different with cops because they have a position of public trust, because they respond to victims of domestic violence crimes."
New Cmdr. George T. Trosky was arrested in 1997 for breaking the nose of his then-wife, whose failure to appear in court led to charges being dropped. Also promoted were Lt. Charles Rodriguez, who saw his daughter drop simple assault charges against him in July, and Sgt. Eugene F. Hlavac, whose arguments with his girlfriend prompted two police calls to his home and anger management counseling this year.
None of the three officers promoted in June has had a PFA filed against him.
About 4% of the police department has been the subjects of allegations of domestic violence or restraining orders. Four officers had allegations of domestic violence made against them before joining the department.
Too often inhouse domestic violence in law enforcement agencies is treated as a "private matter" but many experts say that it's a serious problem that isn't treated as such.
One of the best series on police domestic violence was published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and is located here.
A man tased by police officers in Anaheim during a domestic violence incident died in police custody, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cause of death hasn't been decided upon at this time and toxicology tests are pending.
In New York City, one officer injured another in what is known as a "friendly fire" shooting, according to this article in the New York Daily News but things could have been worse.
(excerpt)
"The shooting appears to be within department guidelines," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.
Annamarie Marchiondo, a 17-year veteran, was recovering in the hospital today with the foot injury and bullet wounds in her left side and right ankle, family members said.
The fusillade was sparked Friday when she and two other plainclothes cops stopped parolee Juan Calves, 51, and two other men who were riding between train cars at the 176th St. station in Mount Hope, cops said.
Riding outside subway cars is a violation of MTA rules.
Marchiondo, 40, was behind Calves preparing to search or handcuff him, when Calves suddenly spun around and grabbed her, pulling out a 44-mm pistol, Browne said.
The two other officers yelled, "Stop! Don't do it! Put it down!," Browne said.
Then Marchiondo broke free from Calves' grip, and he opened fire - shooting six bullets in all.
Marchiondo's female partner - a 26-year-old officer with three years on the job - fired nine times with her 9-mm Glock, and hit Calves fatally in the abdomen.
Her male partner - a rookie with a year and a few days on the job - hit Marchiondo in the left foot with his 9-mm Smith & Wesson, Browne said.
Riverside County will be holding classes on the Brown Act which governs public participation at governmental meetings, in various cities.
Riverside on Oct. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Riverside County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon St.
Call the county ahead of time at (951) 955-5400
(excerpt)
Police used electric shock on pit bull
Police had to use an electric shock Sunday to stop an aggressive pit bull that tried to attack several people in Riverside.
The dog attempted to attack a pedestrian about 7 a.m. at Canyon Crest Drive and Mission Grove Parkway, according to a Riverside police report. A passing driver stopped to help the pedestrian, prompting the dog to jump in the back of his truck.
When police arrived, the dog jumped from the truck and tried to attack several other bystanders, according to the report. Police used a Taser to shock the dog before it was picked up by Riverside County Animal Control.
-John Asbury
jasbury@PE.com
Posted by PE.com at 10:39 AM
As this breaking story continues to develop, any news that comes out of it will be brought here.
The Riverside City Council is back on its regular schedule and hidden on the hefty consent calendar for tonight's meeting is the gentrification plan, or as it's officially called the University Avenue Charrette Project. Not that there aren't good projects included in this plan but apparently it looks quite a bit different in this "progress" report than it did when it was presented to community groups in the Eastside some time ago.
Since it's on the consent calendar, only an elected official or city staff person can pull it and that's not likely to happen. Not until a city council is elected that remembers it represents the residents who live in the city, not the development firms from Orange County and other places.
It's not said often enough that Marjorie Von Pohle is the heroine of free speech at city council meetings. This woman although nearly 90, was willing to risk being removed from the council chambers by police officers to stand for this principle. She's had people go up to the microphone at city council meetings and ridicule her and her mission to restore the consent calendar to the people yet she's remained fearless.
Hopefully, there will be people in the next generation to pick up where she leaves off.
Riverside's Mission Inn, otherwise known as the center of the downtown universe needs your help. Yes you, a mere mortal, can greatly assist the hotel by returning the "artifacts" which have allegedly been removed from the premises over the years. Thousands of items which have historic value need to find their way back home.
(excerpt)
Buoyed by the return of 400 artifacts to the Inn last year, the restoration group agreed to make the initiative official.
"It requires awareness and good will," said John Worden, executive director of the foundation and museum. "We're laying the ground work."
On Thursday, an exhibit featuring about 50 rescued objects will kick off the Mission Inn Museum's "Bring it Home" campaign. The eclectic collection includes a 1906 piano; the original Anton clock face carved in Germany in 1709; a 4-foot wooden eagle from the early 1900s; rare photographs; documents; and the 1887 hotel registry graced with legendary owner Frank Miller's signature.
One woman was sufficiently moved enough by the plea to return some bells she stole in the 1960s when she was a teenager. That is truly awesome. Learn from her example.
The current owners of the Mission Inn might not want you to know this, but it's allegedly haunted by a host of spirits walking its halls and apparently singing in the hotel as well.
More information about Inland Empire hauntings can be found here.
It seems like many people who work or have worked at the Mission Inn have a tale or two to tell about alleged bumps in the night or ghosts they have encountered from one end of the massive hotel to the other.
It's not known whether or not any investigations have been conducted to determine one way or the other whether or not the Mission Inn is haunted. Perhaps, while the city council is busy putting together task forces, it should put one together to address this issue. If the Mission Inn could be marketed as a haunted house, think of what that could do for Riverside Renaissance receipts. After all, at some point there should be at least as much money coming out of it as going into it.
If you think this is a necessary investment to ensure the future evolution of the new and improved Riverside we've been hearing and reading so much about, by all means contact your elected official about it.
Hunter Hobby Park will be renovated said Ralph Nunez who directs the Park and Recreation Department, but one city council candidate said that he wished he had a chance to review the project plans before it was brought to a vote, according to an article in the Press Enterprise.
(excerpt)
Mike Gardner, the club's president, said the city's plans will not hurt the park's railroad following, but he wishes he had seen the final plan before it went to the commission for approval.
The city staff worked closely with the club to come up with a plan for the park that would not take away from the railroad, but the final plan was not shown to the club, he said.
At Monday's meeting, Gardner asked the commission to delay the vote so he could take the plan to the club's board for review.
"It's something I believe the club will be pleased with," he told the commission. "I just haven't had the opportunity to take the document to the board."
The commission still voted 5-1, with Commissioner Victor Sainz dissenting, to move the project forward. Commissioner Angel Sanchez Jr. was absent.
"We want to make sure we are respectful (of the club), but my concern is moving this forward in a timely manner," Nuñez said at the meeting.
Gardner's facing off against incumbent Dom Betro in Ward One this November. Gardner's presence in the race and his concern about the city's parks has served as a catalyst for a lot of the improvements that have been proposed for them.
The workers from Windsor Food Factory are now on strike with over 400 employees pushing for better pay.
(excerpt)
We kind of saw it coming," said maintenance worker Adolfo Melcher. Nonetheless, the 25-year-old Riverside resident who has three young children said he hasn't built up any savings to tide him over during the strike.
He was outside the Windsor factory Monday afternoon with other workers during one of three shifts that will have strikers outside the facility all day.
Christina Martinez, 34, a maintenance worker with the company for eight years, picketed alongside fellow workers Monday afternoon. The mother of five from Hesperia said she expects that she'll eventually be forced to pay for some of her health coverage, but she wants enough of a wage increase to cover the costs.
She's told her children they're on a budget.
"They know it's going to be hard," she said.
The people of Yonkers are calling for stronger civilian review according to the Lower Hudson Online.
Not surprisingly, this news comes after the announcement last month that the Department of Justice is going to do an investigation into civil rights violations allegedly committed by the Yonkers Police Department.
Of course, the city government wants its own version of civilian oversight as well.
(excerpt)
Republican Larry Sykes, who is challenging Councilwoman Patricia McDow, D-1st District, is calling for a civilian complaint review board independent from the city's Police Department. Last year McDow introduced legislation in the City Council for a similarly independent board.
"It would have subpoena powers and it would have representatives from the Police Department sitting on the board," Sykes said of his proposal, which would resemble the civilian review board in New York City.
McDow's council proposal went nowhere last year, so last week she issued an appeal for volunteers to join the current police-civilian oversight committee. Still, she said that the city should consider an independent civilian review board.
"Maybe I need to revisit it," McDow said of her proposal for a civilian complaint board. "It wasn't completely independent, because I knew I couldn't get that passed."
That statement isn't surprising, given how many local governments want to water down civilian review or ignore it altogether until their communities speak out loud enough and long enough for them to finally decide they can't. Then they step forward and come out with their own version just as the Riverside city council did in 2000.
One of the reasons why writing about the fate of the Community Police Review Commission is so interesting is because it's a clear-cut example of something that is supported by the majority of this city's residents. In fact, the majority of the city's residents in every precinct in every ward voted it into the city's charter in 2004. They did so in response to all the publicity about the many attempts by the city government to politicize it, to undermine it and even to strip it of its operating budget. After watching the city council have its way, the residents of the city took their feelings on the matter to the polls.
Contrast the feelings of the residents with those expressed by the city council, the majority of which opposes both civilian oversight and the CPRC. Watch what's taken place during the history of the CPRC both before and after the passage of the charter amendment that put it a bit more out of their reach. But only a little bit.
So what's here is an example of something supported by the people which isn't being supported enough or at all by those elected to represent those people.
A traffic stop study being done in Massachusetts has been delayed due to problems receiving data from the state's law enforcement agencies, according to the Boston Globe. The heads of these agencies who had opposed the ambitious studies don't seem too surprised. The politicians of course aren't too happy with the embarrassment that this setback has caused them.
(excerpt)
The issue is particularly sensitive for Governor Deval Patrick, the state's first black governor and the former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton Justice Department. In an interview, Patrick's public safety secretary, Kevin M. Burke, said the program, launched under the Romney administration, has been a "step along the way."
Patrick, he said, now plans to ask police departments to voluntarily share their traffic data with the state. If he is not satisfied with their response, Patrick may require them to do so, Burke said.
"He won't wait forever," Burke said. "If our next step doesn't seem to be bearing fruit, then we'll look to move in another direction."
According to a review conducted by the Patrick administration, only 140 of the 247 police departments that had been targeted for special scrutiny followed the guidelines, which call for officers to fill out detailed reports every time they stop a driver. These reports include space to note the race and gender of the driver, the duration and reason for the stop, what type of road it happened on, and whether the car was searched and if so, what was found.
Another 104 police departments noted the race and gender of the driver and the reason for the stop, but rejected the more detailed aspects. Three departments told the state they did not record racial or gender data, and 12 departments never indicated what action, if any, they took, despite repeated promptings by the state. The numbers in the state's analysis added up to more than 247 because some departments used more than one method; for example, some might have used the detailed reports briefly and then switched to a different method.
Riverside's police department conducted similar study annually under its five-year stipulated judgment with the state attorney general's office. However, in the past several years no study has been released and the last one conducted was completed in March 2006 but was never released to the public.
The police department has said that it will use data compiled from 2006-07 to conduct a study which will be released to the public next March. The $25,000 allocated for the study has been in the department's budget since 2006.
In Houston, a police officer working for a school district was suspended because he was distributing copies of a "Ghetto" Handbook titled, "Wucha dun did now"
(excerpt)
This publication was completely reprehensible and HISD condemns it in the strongest possible terms," Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said in a written statement Thursday.
He said he has "mounted a very aggressive investigation."
District Police Chief Charles Wiley had no comment, Abbott said.
The booklet billed itself as a guide to Ebonics, teaching the reader to speak "as if you just came out of the hood." It included definitions such as "foty: a 40-ounce bottle of beer"; "aks: to ask a question"; and "hoodrat: scummy girl."
The booklet names six district officers "and the entire day shift patrol" as contributors. Abbott said a preliminary investigation has cleared those officers of involvement.
Only several years after the dissolution of its federal consent decree, the Pittsburgh Police Department is under the microscope for how it addresses domestic violence within its ranks, according to a detailed article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
After perusing court records, the newspaper discovered that at least 34 police officers have been investigated for stalking, harassment, making threats and for physical and emotional abuse. Even more significant, having been investigated for any of this behavior, much of which is illegal, some of them still have been getting promoted.
(excerpt)
Council held a June 28 public hearing on the promotions. Today's 1:30 p.m. meeting will be open to the public, but the only people allowed to comment will be invited guests, including Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., Mr. Malloy, Citizen Police Review Board Executive Director Elizabeth Pittinger, and representatives of women's shelters and advocacy organizations.
"This is not a police-bashing thing," said council President Doug Shields, who set up the meeting. "We want to take a look at this to better understand the dynamic of domestic violence and the policy piece, and what we can do to make this better."
Police "take an oath to serve and protect," said Diane Wetendorf, a Chicago-based expert on officer-involved domestic violence who will not be at today's hearing. "It's different with cops because they have a position of public trust, because they respond to victims of domestic violence crimes."
New Cmdr. George T. Trosky was arrested in 1997 for breaking the nose of his then-wife, whose failure to appear in court led to charges being dropped. Also promoted were Lt. Charles Rodriguez, who saw his daughter drop simple assault charges against him in July, and Sgt. Eugene F. Hlavac, whose arguments with his girlfriend prompted two police calls to his home and anger management counseling this year.
None of the three officers promoted in June has had a PFA filed against him.
About 4% of the police department has been the subjects of allegations of domestic violence or restraining orders. Four officers had allegations of domestic violence made against them before joining the department.
Too often inhouse domestic violence in law enforcement agencies is treated as a "private matter" but many experts say that it's a serious problem that isn't treated as such.
One of the best series on police domestic violence was published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and is located here.
A man tased by police officers in Anaheim during a domestic violence incident died in police custody, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cause of death hasn't been decided upon at this time and toxicology tests are pending.
In New York City, one officer injured another in what is known as a "friendly fire" shooting, according to this article in the New York Daily News but things could have been worse.
(excerpt)
"The shooting appears to be within department guidelines," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.
Annamarie Marchiondo, a 17-year veteran, was recovering in the hospital today with the foot injury and bullet wounds in her left side and right ankle, family members said.
The fusillade was sparked Friday when she and two other plainclothes cops stopped parolee Juan Calves, 51, and two other men who were riding between train cars at the 176th St. station in Mount Hope, cops said.
Riding outside subway cars is a violation of MTA rules.
Marchiondo, 40, was behind Calves preparing to search or handcuff him, when Calves suddenly spun around and grabbed her, pulling out a 44-mm pistol, Browne said.
The two other officers yelled, "Stop! Don't do it! Put it down!," Browne said.
Then Marchiondo broke free from Calves' grip, and he opened fire - shooting six bullets in all.
Marchiondo's female partner - a 26-year-old officer with three years on the job - fired nine times with her 9-mm Glock, and hit Calves fatally in the abdomen.
Her male partner - a rookie with a year and a few days on the job - hit Marchiondo in the left foot with his 9-mm Smith & Wesson, Browne said.
Riverside County will be holding classes on the Brown Act which governs public participation at governmental meetings, in various cities.
Riverside on Oct. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Riverside County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon St.
Call the county ahead of time at (951) 955-5400
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