CM PRESS # 598

KELLY THOMAS BEATING CONTINUES TO BE NATIONAL NEWS

If the death of Kelly gets police departments to start weeding out people who should not be cops, at least some good will come of this.
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SOME BLACKS IN PHILLY CLAIM CURFEW IS RACIST

Blacks attacking Whites is not racist.

City trying to stop Blacks from attacking Whites is racist.

Got it?
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CMPD REPORTS MAN COMMITTED SUICIDE AT FAIRVIEW PARK TODAY

Here's the press release from the CMPD...

"On 08/22/11, at 1259 hours a patrol officer was on routine patrol of Fairview Park when he observed a 1990 blue Honda sedan occupied by a single male. The male was sitting in the front passenger seat. The officer conducted a routine license plate inquiry that revealed a traffic warrant for the registered owner. Suspecting the occupant was the individual identified on the warrant, the officer approached the vehicle.


"When the officer approached the vehicle, he contacted the male and detained him outside the vehicle. The officer identified the individual as the same subject listed on the warrant. After a few moments of conversation, the subject abruptly got into the passenger seat of the vehicle, ignoring the officer’s orders not to do so. The subject armed himself with a handgun. Fearing for his life, the officer fired one round, which did not strike the male, according to evidence at the scene and conversation with the medical staff. The subject then fatally shot himself.

"The incident is being investigated by the Costa Mesa Police Department and the Orange County Coroner. Following standard policy, the Costa Mesa Police Department notified the Orange County District Attorney’s Office regarding the shooting. Based on the evidence, the District Attorney’s Office declined to investigate.

"In May of 2011, the male subject had been reported to the Costa Mesa Police Department as a suicide threat. In that case, the subject had left a suicide note threatening to shoot himself in Fairview Park in Costa Mesa. At the time of the May 2011 report, the subject was living out of his vehicle and could not be located.

"Due to this being an ongoing investigation, the name of the deceased male and officer are not being released at this time."
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HATCH CALLS UNION ON ITS NITPICKING
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THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES IN COSTA MESA

The New Council is doing a root and branch reform of our local government and is making it more accountable to the improvement minded citizens of Costa Mesa.

And, as usual, the half-dead running dogs of the old order continue to howl ineffectively.

Be sure to read the comments after THIS column in the Daily Pilot to see what we mean.

Our local government is being right sized, it's more transparent than ever, and priorities are being straightened out.  

But, this is not what the old order wants.  They want a bloated government with lots of expensive redundancy, an opaque government that hides their massive salaries and benefits from the tax payers, and priorities that focus on silly fluffy things that do not give long term improvement to Costa Mesa.
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