Here's another story of sexual misconduct by SB sheriff's deputies in the jails, only this time, it's up at Glen Helen as opposed to at West Valley. As we mentioned earlier, our group has nothing against sex per se, we just expect public officials to follow laws, rules, and regulations. Furthermore, the power imbalance between detainee and guard renders any relationship, as "consensual" as it may be, ethically questionable to say the least. Here's the information we have:
Officers from the Jurupa Valley PD are reporting that they shot and injured a seventeen-year-old they are accusing of driving a stolen vehicle. The brother is expected to live. Here are some links:
We all expected there to be fallout from the Sandy hook massacre--how could there not be when so many innocent lives were lost? What form the fallout would take--that's where the doubt lay. But now we have seen the first repercussions at the local level: The Fontana school district police department's purchase of 14 high-caliber rifles.
Here's another case of both a cop shooting someone while off-duty, like the recent Chino Hills road rage case, and of the police unreasonably refusing to disclose innocuous information--in this case, the agency the killer cop works for. (In the Chino Hills case, we eventually learned what agency the shooter worked for.) We still don't know the brother's age or many other details, but if we find anything out, we'll let you know. For know, here's the P-E article:
We had mentioned on this blog that the family and supporters of Andy Avila were planning on holding a demonstration this past Sunday and encouraged our supporters to attend. Not many members of CWIE were able to attend, but some did, and there is even a report, with photos, in the independent media:
