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This article [News, 7/21] sounds as if
the problem is solved or is it really “just
passing the buck?” Sounds like there is
no real legislation in place to solve the
problem once and for all!
Who or what persons or organizations
are in place to prevent similar accidents?
Stand by for similar accidents and there
may be human fatalities in the next
accident! Will they be investigated?
Why not investigate before there are any
fatalities?
Stace Webb
Eugene
INVESTIGATE EPD?
I learned some troubling things while
attending the Titus Fotso trial this past
week (July 20-22).
The first three officers at the scene
arrived in two cars, which they parked
about a block away from the house with no
line of sight for their dashboard cameras.
I thought that their action was a tactic to
prevent a video recording from being made
of the interaction.
The internal affairs officer who
questioned me outside of the courtroom
assured me that parking away from the
scene is a standard procedure of the Eugene
Police Department. If so, that procedure
should be changed immediately.
The lack of a video record made it
possible for the three officers to initiate
a violent confrontation and turn what
should have been a peaceful encounter
into “pandemonium.” I wonder if that
action was a try to get Mr. Fotso to enter
the fray and try to protect his housemates
so they would have reason to beat him up
(or worse)?
The fact that Mr. Fotso is a black man
added to my suspicion.
What may be even more troubling is
the revelation that the EPD Blue Team,
which is supposed to investigate and
report on officer interactions that involve
force, has systematically been withholding
evidence pertaining to criminal trials. That
could affect not only this trial, but many
previous trials involving the questionable
use of force by the EPD.
Is it time for the U.S. Justice Department
to investigate Police Chief Pete Kerns and
the EPD?
Steve Hiatt
Eugene
INITIATIVE RIGHTS
STILL IN PERIL
Lane
County
Commissioners
have delayed consideration of their
unconstitutional draft ordinance to seize
control of the people’s initiative power
until mid-September. Commissioners Jay
Bozievich and Faye Stewart must feel
that this delay will assure them of having
adequate time to throw out the three
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Good Cheer From Home, 1939-45
July 29 - August 13
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Coming up next fall at The Shedd…
9.16-10.2 Oliver!
10.6 Greg Brown
10.7 Bruce Molsky
10.9 Guy Mendilow Ensemble
10.11 Jazz at Lincoln Center w/
Wynton Marsalis (Hult)
10.13-16 The Jazz Kings: Mood
Indigo: Ellington, 1925-48
10.22 The Magical Moombah!
Doctor, Doctor!
10.23 Tracy Bonham
10.27 Dave Douglas
& The Westerlies
11.3 Bill Frisell: When You Wish
Upon A Star
11.4 Hapa
11.5 Ehud Asherie
11.10 Michael Feinstein
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