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Actor Killed by LAPD
Through the
weekend
Today
LOS A N G ELES(A P)— Friendsof
an actor shot to death by police as he
allegedly w ielded a fake gun at a
H allow een costum e party are ques
tioning w hether race played a role in
the killing.
O fficer Tarriel H opper shot A n
thony D wain Lee early Saturday as
he and another officer investigated a
noise com plaint at the W est Los
A ngeles m ansion w here hundreds o f
people had attended the party, offi
cials said.
“ H e’s a black m an w ho died in a
w hite neighborhood,” M ary Lin. one
o f L ee’s friends, told the Los Angeles
Times.
Police said H opper, who also is
black, and his partner arrived at the
residence about 1 a.m. Saturday, and
w ere searching for the ow ner when
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This Week
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pionship, their first in 15 years.
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H opper fired through the glass
w hen he allegedly saw Lee point a
gun at him. The gun turned o ut to be
fake.
“ He had no w ay o f know ing it w as
fake even though people w ere in co s
tume. If you feel your life is threat
ened, you react in the w ay you w ere
tra in e d ,” said O ffic e r C h a rlo tte
Broughton, a police spokesw om an.
“ I think m ost people can u nder
stand where w e ’re com ing ffornas far
as w hat w e have to do. W e’re risking
our lives every d ay ,” she added.
Broughton refused to say w hether
Hopper, a three-year departm ent vet
eran, identified h im selfb efo re firing.
Steve Sim s, a nurse attending the
party, told the Los A ngeles T im es
that H opper w as distraught after the
shooting, asking repeatedly as they
Anthony Dwain Lee
they peered through a w indow and
saw Lee and tw o others in a sm all
room.
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Thought for the week
“ If A equals success, then
the form ula is A equals X plus
Y plusZ . X is work. Y is play.
Z iskeepyourm outhshut.” —
Albert Einstein
A SW A T team m em berkilled dur
ing a training exercise was shot by his
in stru c to r w ho w as ac cid en ta lly
handed a gun loaded with live am m u
nition, according to new details o fth e
shooting.
C la c k a m a s C o u n ty S h e r if f ’s
D eputy Bill B ow m an, 35, was shot in
the head Sept. 12 by firearm s instruc
to r K evin Vail. A ll w eapons used
during exercises at Cam p Rilea on the
north O regon coast are supposed to
be loaded w ith blanks.
A ccording to a docum ent released
by the C lackam as C ounty S h e riffs
D epartm ent, V ail had been helping
another officer load his w eapon.
W hile trying to fit a m agazine into
the firearm, theo fficerto o k aclip from
the SW A T team van that had been
pre-loaded w ith live rounds.
The m agazine fit, and D eputy Vail,
who w as briefly distracted by an
oth er o fficer, co n clu d ed that the
w eapon, not the clip, w as faulty. He
then loaded the m agazine into his
Deputy Bill Bowman
Police Chief Kroeker Defends
Anti-Gay Comments
P o rtla n d P o lic e C h ie f M ark
K roeker is offering an explanation for
statem ents he m ade about abortion
and gays.
T he N ovem ber issue o f “Portland
A lliance” says that K roeker, w hile a
m em ber o f the Los A ngelese Police
D epartm ent spoke to a group ofC hris-
tian officers and m ade anti-gay and
anti-abortion statem ents.
M onday, K roeker released a state
m ent saying the rem arks w ere m ade
as part o f a church-related gathering
ow n gun. He did not know the clip
had been exchanged for one that was
filled w ith live rounds.
C latsop C ounty has said it will not
file charges against those involved in
th e sh o o tin g . D is tric t A tto rn e y
Joshua M arquis has said an investi
gation by his officer show ed no ev i
dence o f crim inal negligence, reck
lessness or any oth er crim inal con
duct. The Clackam as County S h eriff s
office w ill conduct its ow n internal
probe.
Feed the hungry through
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and said, “I will rigorously defend my
right to speech and m y right to reli
gion and all its doctrines. 1 will also
fulfill m y responsibility as ch ief o f
police to keep m y religious beliefs in
their proper place and adhere with
rigor to the law enforcem ent code o f
ethics, the values o f the Portland
Police D epartm ent and to the laws o f
O regon and Portland."
K ro e k e r a ls o a s k e d
th a t
Portlanders tolerate his ow n faith,
and he w ill do the sam e for others.
HUNGER
Police Officer Faces Forgery Charge
P ortland P olice O fficer R onald
H e n s o n w a s in d ic a te d b y th e
M ultnom ah C ounty G rand Jury on
O ct 17 charge o fF o rg ery in the First
D egree and A cquiring a C ontrolled
Substance by Fraud.
T he charges stem m ed from an in
ternal crim inal investigation con-
w aited for an am bulance: “W hy did
he have to pull that g un?”
Lee, 39, had been w earing a black
sw eat shirt, a black vest and tan pants,
said county co ro n er’s Lt. D an Aikin.
11 w as not im m ediately clear ifh e was
also w earing a m ask or other elements
o f a costum e.
Partygoers said som e guests w ere
dressed up as Los A ngeles police
officers.
T he h o u se’s absentee ow ner and
builder, W arren L ipson, told the
T im es that he w ondered w hy police
ventured behind the m ansion inves
tigating a noise com plaint.
“T hey w alked up the open drive
w ay and passed by several kitchen
w indow s and other large w indow s in
the living room , all o fw h ich were full
o f people in costum e,” he said.
SWAT Member Shot by His Instructor
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