TGIF: Fog and gloom
Now that Halloween has passed and the Screen Writers' Guild of America has opted to postpone its strike and will meet and confer on what to do next. However, members of the guild have been told to remove their personal items from their offices of employment. It was speculated by many that the guild would wait to see how the Directors' Guild of America and the Screen Actors' Guild handled similar issues in their upcoming contract negotiations before making a decision to strike.
If you're a guild member, the meeting to be at was at 7 p.m. but alas, when the discussion was done and the vote tallied, the guild decided to go on strike.
It's foggy today even as the humidity is predicted to be back at the dangerous levels which led to the massive brush fires several weeks ago. In Riverside, the mood has been gloomy too with the election day less than two weeks away and it seems at the moment, people too moody to party.
There are many people who are pretty gloomy and upset that the elections weren't decided the first time around, that the Riverside Renaissance wasn't enough to sweep incumbents into office as expected. But this is Riverside and predicting the future is hard enough in any sphere but especially in the Inland Empire's very own version of Wonderland.
Some people apparently have a lot riding on this election and are acting accordingly, as we have seen. Others are still figuring out who to trust with their vote.
More city residents are speaking out for their candidates of choice in the Press Enterprise's letters section. The letters usually intensify right before an election or the newspaper is more interested in printing more of them. If you haven't written your letter yet, you still have some time left before the ballots are counted.
They are also speaking out here and saying this (which is the link which the author alleged was removed but still works) and this about me and this site, which I guess means that there are some fried nerves in a certain candidate's campaign.
Some interesting sites which are related both to the city's affairs and the election are out there waiting to be read.
There's a Rusty Bailey blog here which is filled with "letters to the editor" from his supporters. Speaking of blogs, Aric Isom interviewed Ward One candidate, Mike Gardner on his blog. Excerpts and a complete audio version of the interview are available on his site.
The Riverside Police Department has come out with its first annual written report since 2002 and it's here. It's quite long and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to access but is definitely worthwhile reading. It provides a pretty comprehensive look at the department's operations and programs through examining its management infrastructure.
Speaking of the police department, if anyone wants to know where retired deputy chief, Audrey Wilson is eating these days. It's Hooters.
Bernstein is tipped off at some plot going on at Hooters involving the tee-shirts they sell and goes undercover at Hooters' contribution to the Riverside Renaissance in where else, Riverside and what he finds, you can find out yourself in his latest column.
(excerpt, Press Enterprise)
I nosed around and came up with a couple of stories. One has it that Hooters originally planned to nestle in MoVal but found a Riverside perch that could be eyeballed from the 215. By then, all the official documents had been MoValidated. Too late to change.
Art Tinajero, Hooters marketing veep: "It started with our filing with the post office." (The post office supposedly placed the perch in MoVal.) Now what?
Tinajero: "We plan to follow the lead of our guests. If they would be more happy with us being called the Riverside Hooters that could be easily done."
Not so fast. Does Riverside -- "City of the Arts" -- want to clutch Hooters to its civic bosom? I called the mayor, but he was artsing around in Japan.
Will MoVal mount a campaign to keep "Moreno Valley" on Hooters T-shirts at a time when it's trying to regulate churches? I called the mayor, but he was unavailable. (Probably vacationing in Rancho Belago.)
As I ate my wings, investigated T-shirts and awaited autographs, it hit me how the restaurant could satisfy both "bedroom communities" (as the marketing veep calls them): Sell T-shirts that proclaim "Moreno Valley Hooters of Riverside."
They'd sure take longer to read. If you're a professional.
What are the contracts that city employees work under? Here are the two current ones involving the members of the Riverside Police Officers' Association which were approved in autumn of 2006.
RPOA Officer Unit
RPOA Supervisory Unit
Los Angeles Times Columnist Dana Parsons asks the following question. Who will tell the Orange County Sheriff it's time to go?
After all, the head of a law enforcement agency has been charged with multiple felonies, the kind of crimes that often cause the public to distrust people holding positions of power. How can the head of a law enforcement agency effectively oversee employees who are entrusted to uphold and enforce the laws, when he's just been indicted himself? Sheriff Michael Carona as you've probably heard has been indicted for witness tampering, mail fraud and conspiracy with his wife and his girlfriend.
(excerpt)
Who's going to give the word to Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona? He claims membership in Mensa, so he should be able to figure it out for himself, but sometimes smart people have the worst common sense.
It isn't political sport at work here. There's very little about Carona's politics that inspire heated opposition. In fact, it was his image as a consensus-builder and appealing guy that originally stoked reports that he had a bright political future.
It's the seven-count indictment that a federal grand jury returned against him, alleging, among other things, that he regularly received money and other gifts over a four-year period from a supporter and fundraiser. Carona then named him an assistant sheriff shortly after taking office in early 1999. Beyond that, it's the web of criminality that already has tainted his inner circle.
What levelheaded friend or advisor will clue him in? Who will tell him that seeing a county sheriff in handcuffs, as Carona was Wednesday in his first court appearance, is not a good thing for law enforcement?
Who will tell him it's not about "fighting" or proving his innocence, because those things will take months, if not longer? Who will tell him that he can prove his innocence without remaining on the job?
It's not like the rank and file of the Sheriff's Department is running out to support him. In fact the labor union supported his rival during the last election.
Here is a helpful guide to answering questions about what could happen next in the Carona case that might come to mind.
The San Bernardino County Public Defender’s office has been asked to recuse itself from a murder case due to alleged conflict of interest.
San Antonio's police department will be facing an audit, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
The city council is expected to direct the Police Executive Research Forum to do an investigation of the department's patterns and practices.
This decision comes in the wake of huge turmoil that has pitted Chief William McManus against his department's labor union and then against the community. The organization has done investigations of other law enforcement agencies including the Austin Police Department and that in New Haven, Connecticut.
Still people on both sides of the issue have said they will be vigilant.
(excerpt)
Community leaders, who spent Wednesday afternoon meeting with McManus, said they still harbored reservations about the group but would stay hopeful.
"We're concerned about them just coming here and telling us what the City Council wants to hear, that everything is nice and lovely," said Patricia Castillo, executive director of the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative. "We'll continue to be watchful."
And union president Teddy Stewart, who over the past few weeks has defended the actions of his accused officers, remained defiant.
"The review is not going to say that we have problems. We don't have issues with racial profiling and abusing people," he said. "And unless the review says that, the group of people calling for it is not going to be satisfied."
It sounds like the one thing that both factions agree on is the investigation's outcome. Will one side be satisfied and the other yelling about it all being bogus?
However, if the panel comes back with recommendations to address any underlying problems as is most likely, what will be the reaction? Will these recommendations be embraced or rejected?
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to meet with the family of Det. Joseph Zadroga just days after he said he did not die a hero.
(excerpt, New York Daily News)
"I'm looking for the mayor to go over the medical records and prove that Jimmy wasn't taking any kind of drugs - and give an apology for saying that he was on drugs," said Joseph Zadroga, whose son James died in January 2006.
Bloomberg ruffled feathers Monday when he said Zadroga was not a hero because the city's medical examiner concluded the detective died from drug abuse.
"First of all, it isn't true," Joseph Zadroga told the Daily News. "And it's embarrassing, and a disgrace to his family. That hurt. He was a police officer, and a hero. That hurt."
Bloomberg this week backed city Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch's conclusion that James Zadroga died of lung disease caused by injecting groundup pain pills.
Zadroga's father, Joseph, took the mayor to task for those comments.
(excerpt)
excerpt, New York Daily News)
Bloomberg on Monday told Harvard public health students that Hirsch's ruling showed how government should make decisions based on science, not emotion.
Tuesday, he explained his remarks for more than five minutes and agreed Zadroga was probably sickened from his 450 hours at Ground Zero - but ducked the chance to take back his most cutting words.
"This was a great NYPD officer who dedicated himself, put his life in harm's way hundreds of times during his career," Bloomberg said. "It's a question of how you want to define what a hero is, and certainly I did not mean to hurt the family or impugn his reputation."
A spokesman for the mayor said later he would be happy to meet with Zadroga's family.
The unions for city police officers and detectives joined the call for an apology, saying it was obvious the detective died from his service at Ground Zero.
"The mayor has successfully turned off 37,000 New York City cops with his comment," said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association.
Here's an interesting interview of San Jose Independent Police Auditor Barbara Attard being conducted by San Jose Police Department Sgt. Dave Norling who also serves as the director of the San Jose Police Officers' Association.
Two Albuquerque Police Department officers are the object of a search by an Arkanas law enforcement agency which put warrants out for their arrest after the two men were involved in a bar fight with some bouncers.
Are tasers being overused by officers?
This is a question being asked by Yahoo News. It comes in the wake of a study released by Wake Forest University that decided that tasers were safe about 99.8% of the time.
(excerpt)
Questions about the device's safety linger at least partly because there are no official standards for its use. Because it isn't classified as a firearm by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Taser is exempt from federal firearms requirements and regulations. And while the Consumer Product Safety Commission has jurisdiction over the models sold to consumers, it has done no investigations of its safety. The Taser used by police occupies a shifty place on what is known as the "use-of-force" spectrum, a guide that determines which weapon a police officer should use in any given situation. Yet these standards vary from city to city, and no universal code applies to the country's law enforcement force as a whole. "If a guy has a stick, you don't pull a shotgun out," says John Ryan, a former CIA agent and assistant director of the special investigations group of the Government Accountability Office, who oversaw a 2005 study on the use-of-force policies regarding Tasers. Beyond those basics, however, individual police departments have the freedom to create their own policies - regarding Tasers as well as other weapons. "Law enforcement in the United States is territorial," Kelly says. "Police work is different in different parts of the country. It'd be nice to have a standardized use-of-force policy, but it's still going to be applied differently."
Rather than regulate the Taser's use, some government officials hope to replace the controversial device altogether. The Department of Homeland Security is funding the creation of a new non-lethal weapon called the LED Incapacitator, a flashlight-like device that uses high-intensity LEDs, pulsating at varying rates, to render a suspect temporarily blind and dizzy.
For now, however, the only organization that regulates or tracks the use of Tasers is the company that makes the device. With civilian models (Tasers were first sold to the public in 1993 out of Sharper Image catalogs), consumers must register their products with the company, says Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for Taser International. Another feature, known as the "anti-felon identification," or AFID, system, enables the Taser to disperse confetti tagged with serial numbers when it is fired, linking a specific Taser to the scene where it is used. But these systems are available only on devices sold to civilians, not to law enforcement. The models sold to police contain a data-port system, however, that records every time the device has been deployed.
The Community Police Review Commission is almost done with its handling of the Lee Deante Brown case and the discussion has included comments made by Commission Chair Brian Pearcy about black tasers being obscured by Black skin, a comment which allegedly when it was related to a representative of the Department of Justice, caused him to shake his head ruefully.
Also memorable was a snide remark made by Commissioner Peter Hubbard, “we all know who the credible ones are here”. But given Hubbard's connections to the city through his employment, it's probably a good bet that he knows what side of the bread, the butter's on.
What memorable comments await the public with the CPRC’s investigations into the next two fatal shootings? We’ll have to wait and see but here is some interestingly commentary from individuals with very different views of officer-involved shootings in Riverside posted shortly after both shootings in October 2006.
Quotables about the next two fatal shootings on deck to be investigated and reviewed by the Community Police Review Commission.
On Douglas Steven Cloud by an individual who identified himself.
"The actions of the Riverside Police Department in this case is reprehensible and disrespectful to the victim's family. They are seeking the truth as to why an unarmed theft offender was shot down. I know that being a police officer demands split-second decision making, but why is it always shoot to kill. Taking a human life and then thinking nothing of accountablity is business as usual it seems in Riverside. The fact that these actions don't raise more indignation among the city's citizens is even more disturbing. Will the family of Douglas Steven Cloud see justice? Ten to one the shooting is justified by the Community Police Review Commission."
---Former Chicago Police Department detective and author, Juan A. Juarez who wrote an excellent book about his experiences.
On Joseph Darnell Hill, by individuals who chose not to identify themselves.
I Love It!!!!Mary, what are the odds that 2 "Brothas" would be shot by police under similar circumstances within a 15 year period? I can only imagine the amount of victims these two left in their in their wake over the years. I'd bet there's not enough Bath and Body candles to hold the amount of candle light vigils it would take to cover all of the people these two victimized over the years. But their "sista" can feel comfort in knowing that they are now in the hands of "Allah."
P.S. I like your new addition-the whole comment moderation thing. Nice touch for a self-proclaimed journalist/editor/advocate for free speech.
"We're a movin on up, to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky"---George Jefferson
Sincerely
---One of Riverside's Finest [but wouldn't elaborate at what]
I know how the Darnell Hill shooting could have been prevented. His family could have turned him in after he committed that robbery of a local Riverside eatery several months ago. Oh, how come the family, who posted Stop Police Brutality signs during his vigil did not post "Stop Armed Robbery" banners? I wonder if Deputy Chief Dominguez extended his sympathies to the famalies of the officers who have been put in the unfortunate position of having to take another human life and of almost being seriuosly injured or killed themselves? I bet he hasn't. But can't say I'm surprised. Anyways, bye!
----President of the Inland Empire Chapter of Accountability of Police Accountability Activists. I wanted to use "President of the League of Hot Female Cops" but I was afraid you might edit my comment. [I think this one likes the word, "hot" a lot kind of like Paris Hilton.]
If you're a guild member, the meeting to be at was at 7 p.m. but alas, when the discussion was done and the vote tallied, the guild decided to go on strike.
It's foggy today even as the humidity is predicted to be back at the dangerous levels which led to the massive brush fires several weeks ago. In Riverside, the mood has been gloomy too with the election day less than two weeks away and it seems at the moment, people too moody to party.
There are many people who are pretty gloomy and upset that the elections weren't decided the first time around, that the Riverside Renaissance wasn't enough to sweep incumbents into office as expected. But this is Riverside and predicting the future is hard enough in any sphere but especially in the Inland Empire's very own version of Wonderland.
Some people apparently have a lot riding on this election and are acting accordingly, as we have seen. Others are still figuring out who to trust with their vote.
More city residents are speaking out for their candidates of choice in the Press Enterprise's letters section. The letters usually intensify right before an election or the newspaper is more interested in printing more of them. If you haven't written your letter yet, you still have some time left before the ballots are counted.
They are also speaking out here and saying this (which is the link which the author alleged was removed but still works) and this about me and this site, which I guess means that there are some fried nerves in a certain candidate's campaign.
Some interesting sites which are related both to the city's affairs and the election are out there waiting to be read.
There's a Rusty Bailey blog here which is filled with "letters to the editor" from his supporters. Speaking of blogs, Aric Isom interviewed Ward One candidate, Mike Gardner on his blog. Excerpts and a complete audio version of the interview are available on his site.
The Riverside Police Department has come out with its first annual written report since 2002 and it's here. It's quite long and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to access but is definitely worthwhile reading. It provides a pretty comprehensive look at the department's operations and programs through examining its management infrastructure.
Speaking of the police department, if anyone wants to know where retired deputy chief, Audrey Wilson is eating these days. It's Hooters.
Bernstein is tipped off at some plot going on at Hooters involving the tee-shirts they sell and goes undercover at Hooters' contribution to the Riverside Renaissance in where else, Riverside and what he finds, you can find out yourself in his latest column.
(excerpt, Press Enterprise)
I nosed around and came up with a couple of stories. One has it that Hooters originally planned to nestle in MoVal but found a Riverside perch that could be eyeballed from the 215. By then, all the official documents had been MoValidated. Too late to change.
Art Tinajero, Hooters marketing veep: "It started with our filing with the post office." (The post office supposedly placed the perch in MoVal.) Now what?
Tinajero: "We plan to follow the lead of our guests. If they would be more happy with us being called the Riverside Hooters that could be easily done."
Not so fast. Does Riverside -- "City of the Arts" -- want to clutch Hooters to its civic bosom? I called the mayor, but he was artsing around in Japan.
Will MoVal mount a campaign to keep "Moreno Valley" on Hooters T-shirts at a time when it's trying to regulate churches? I called the mayor, but he was unavailable. (Probably vacationing in Rancho Belago.)
As I ate my wings, investigated T-shirts and awaited autographs, it hit me how the restaurant could satisfy both "bedroom communities" (as the marketing veep calls them): Sell T-shirts that proclaim "Moreno Valley Hooters of Riverside."
They'd sure take longer to read. If you're a professional.
What are the contracts that city employees work under? Here are the two current ones involving the members of the Riverside Police Officers' Association which were approved in autumn of 2006.
RPOA Officer Unit
RPOA Supervisory Unit
Los Angeles Times Columnist Dana Parsons asks the following question. Who will tell the Orange County Sheriff it's time to go?
After all, the head of a law enforcement agency has been charged with multiple felonies, the kind of crimes that often cause the public to distrust people holding positions of power. How can the head of a law enforcement agency effectively oversee employees who are entrusted to uphold and enforce the laws, when he's just been indicted himself? Sheriff Michael Carona as you've probably heard has been indicted for witness tampering, mail fraud and conspiracy with his wife and his girlfriend.
(excerpt)
Who's going to give the word to Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona? He claims membership in Mensa, so he should be able to figure it out for himself, but sometimes smart people have the worst common sense.
It isn't political sport at work here. There's very little about Carona's politics that inspire heated opposition. In fact, it was his image as a consensus-builder and appealing guy that originally stoked reports that he had a bright political future.
It's the seven-count indictment that a federal grand jury returned against him, alleging, among other things, that he regularly received money and other gifts over a four-year period from a supporter and fundraiser. Carona then named him an assistant sheriff shortly after taking office in early 1999. Beyond that, it's the web of criminality that already has tainted his inner circle.
What levelheaded friend or advisor will clue him in? Who will tell him that seeing a county sheriff in handcuffs, as Carona was Wednesday in his first court appearance, is not a good thing for law enforcement?
Who will tell him it's not about "fighting" or proving his innocence, because those things will take months, if not longer? Who will tell him that he can prove his innocence without remaining on the job?
It's not like the rank and file of the Sheriff's Department is running out to support him. In fact the labor union supported his rival during the last election.
Here is a helpful guide to answering questions about what could happen next in the Carona case that might come to mind.
The San Bernardino County Public Defender’s office has been asked to recuse itself from a murder case due to alleged conflict of interest.
San Antonio's police department will be facing an audit, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
The city council is expected to direct the Police Executive Research Forum to do an investigation of the department's patterns and practices.
This decision comes in the wake of huge turmoil that has pitted Chief William McManus against his department's labor union and then against the community. The organization has done investigations of other law enforcement agencies including the Austin Police Department and that in New Haven, Connecticut.
Still people on both sides of the issue have said they will be vigilant.
(excerpt)
Community leaders, who spent Wednesday afternoon meeting with McManus, said they still harbored reservations about the group but would stay hopeful.
"We're concerned about them just coming here and telling us what the City Council wants to hear, that everything is nice and lovely," said Patricia Castillo, executive director of the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative. "We'll continue to be watchful."
And union president Teddy Stewart, who over the past few weeks has defended the actions of his accused officers, remained defiant.
"The review is not going to say that we have problems. We don't have issues with racial profiling and abusing people," he said. "And unless the review says that, the group of people calling for it is not going to be satisfied."
It sounds like the one thing that both factions agree on is the investigation's outcome. Will one side be satisfied and the other yelling about it all being bogus?
However, if the panel comes back with recommendations to address any underlying problems as is most likely, what will be the reaction? Will these recommendations be embraced or rejected?
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to meet with the family of Det. Joseph Zadroga just days after he said he did not die a hero.
(excerpt, New York Daily News)
"I'm looking for the mayor to go over the medical records and prove that Jimmy wasn't taking any kind of drugs - and give an apology for saying that he was on drugs," said Joseph Zadroga, whose son James died in January 2006.
Bloomberg ruffled feathers Monday when he said Zadroga was not a hero because the city's medical examiner concluded the detective died from drug abuse.
"First of all, it isn't true," Joseph Zadroga told the Daily News. "And it's embarrassing, and a disgrace to his family. That hurt. He was a police officer, and a hero. That hurt."
Bloomberg this week backed city Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch's conclusion that James Zadroga died of lung disease caused by injecting groundup pain pills.
Zadroga's father, Joseph, took the mayor to task for those comments.
(excerpt)
excerpt, New York Daily News)
Bloomberg on Monday told Harvard public health students that Hirsch's ruling showed how government should make decisions based on science, not emotion.
Tuesday, he explained his remarks for more than five minutes and agreed Zadroga was probably sickened from his 450 hours at Ground Zero - but ducked the chance to take back his most cutting words.
"This was a great NYPD officer who dedicated himself, put his life in harm's way hundreds of times during his career," Bloomberg said. "It's a question of how you want to define what a hero is, and certainly I did not mean to hurt the family or impugn his reputation."
A spokesman for the mayor said later he would be happy to meet with Zadroga's family.
The unions for city police officers and detectives joined the call for an apology, saying it was obvious the detective died from his service at Ground Zero.
"The mayor has successfully turned off 37,000 New York City cops with his comment," said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association.
Here's an interesting interview of San Jose Independent Police Auditor Barbara Attard being conducted by San Jose Police Department Sgt. Dave Norling who also serves as the director of the San Jose Police Officers' Association.
Two Albuquerque Police Department officers are the object of a search by an Arkanas law enforcement agency which put warrants out for their arrest after the two men were involved in a bar fight with some bouncers.
Are tasers being overused by officers?
This is a question being asked by Yahoo News. It comes in the wake of a study released by Wake Forest University that decided that tasers were safe about 99.8% of the time.
(excerpt)
Questions about the device's safety linger at least partly because there are no official standards for its use. Because it isn't classified as a firearm by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Taser is exempt from federal firearms requirements and regulations. And while the Consumer Product Safety Commission has jurisdiction over the models sold to consumers, it has done no investigations of its safety. The Taser used by police occupies a shifty place on what is known as the "use-of-force" spectrum, a guide that determines which weapon a police officer should use in any given situation. Yet these standards vary from city to city, and no universal code applies to the country's law enforcement force as a whole. "If a guy has a stick, you don't pull a shotgun out," says John Ryan, a former CIA agent and assistant director of the special investigations group of the Government Accountability Office, who oversaw a 2005 study on the use-of-force policies regarding Tasers. Beyond those basics, however, individual police departments have the freedom to create their own policies - regarding Tasers as well as other weapons. "Law enforcement in the United States is territorial," Kelly says. "Police work is different in different parts of the country. It'd be nice to have a standardized use-of-force policy, but it's still going to be applied differently."
Rather than regulate the Taser's use, some government officials hope to replace the controversial device altogether. The Department of Homeland Security is funding the creation of a new non-lethal weapon called the LED Incapacitator, a flashlight-like device that uses high-intensity LEDs, pulsating at varying rates, to render a suspect temporarily blind and dizzy.
For now, however, the only organization that regulates or tracks the use of Tasers is the company that makes the device. With civilian models (Tasers were first sold to the public in 1993 out of Sharper Image catalogs), consumers must register their products with the company, says Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for Taser International. Another feature, known as the "anti-felon identification," or AFID, system, enables the Taser to disperse confetti tagged with serial numbers when it is fired, linking a specific Taser to the scene where it is used. But these systems are available only on devices sold to civilians, not to law enforcement. The models sold to police contain a data-port system, however, that records every time the device has been deployed.
The Community Police Review Commission is almost done with its handling of the Lee Deante Brown case and the discussion has included comments made by Commission Chair Brian Pearcy about black tasers being obscured by Black skin, a comment which allegedly when it was related to a representative of the Department of Justice, caused him to shake his head ruefully.
Also memorable was a snide remark made by Commissioner Peter Hubbard, “we all know who the credible ones are here”. But given Hubbard's connections to the city through his employment, it's probably a good bet that he knows what side of the bread, the butter's on.
What memorable comments await the public with the CPRC’s investigations into the next two fatal shootings? We’ll have to wait and see but here is some interestingly commentary from individuals with very different views of officer-involved shootings in Riverside posted shortly after both shootings in October 2006.
Quotables about the next two fatal shootings on deck to be investigated and reviewed by the Community Police Review Commission.
On Douglas Steven Cloud by an individual who identified himself.
"The actions of the Riverside Police Department in this case is reprehensible and disrespectful to the victim's family. They are seeking the truth as to why an unarmed theft offender was shot down. I know that being a police officer demands split-second decision making, but why is it always shoot to kill. Taking a human life and then thinking nothing of accountablity is business as usual it seems in Riverside. The fact that these actions don't raise more indignation among the city's citizens is even more disturbing. Will the family of Douglas Steven Cloud see justice? Ten to one the shooting is justified by the Community Police Review Commission."
---Former Chicago Police Department detective and author, Juan A. Juarez who wrote an excellent book about his experiences.
On Joseph Darnell Hill, by individuals who chose not to identify themselves.
I Love It!!!!Mary, what are the odds that 2 "Brothas" would be shot by police under similar circumstances within a 15 year period? I can only imagine the amount of victims these two left in their in their wake over the years. I'd bet there's not enough Bath and Body candles to hold the amount of candle light vigils it would take to cover all of the people these two victimized over the years. But their "sista" can feel comfort in knowing that they are now in the hands of "Allah."
P.S. I like your new addition-the whole comment moderation thing. Nice touch for a self-proclaimed journalist/editor/advocate for free speech.
"We're a movin on up, to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky"---George Jefferson
Sincerely
---One of Riverside's Finest [but wouldn't elaborate at what]
I know how the Darnell Hill shooting could have been prevented. His family could have turned him in after he committed that robbery of a local Riverside eatery several months ago. Oh, how come the family, who posted Stop Police Brutality signs during his vigil did not post "Stop Armed Robbery" banners? I wonder if Deputy Chief Dominguez extended his sympathies to the famalies of the officers who have been put in the unfortunate position of having to take another human life and of almost being seriuosly injured or killed themselves? I bet he hasn't. But can't say I'm surprised. Anyways, bye!
----President of the Inland Empire Chapter of Accountability of Police Accountability Activists. I wanted to use "President of the League of Hot Female Cops" but I was afraid you might edit my comment. [I think this one likes the word, "hot" a lot kind of like Paris Hilton.]
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