[Peace-discuss] Re: [cu_citizens] Man dead in police chase

[Ricky Baldwin]

Well said.  Very well said.

Wish I had a connection in Georgetown, but I don't. 
Saw this on tv the other night.  Very unusual coverage
- focussed on the victim's family explaining how this
guy, yes, had been in trouble with the law and he had
been trying to get into someone's house, but that he
had been persuaded to stop that and leave well before
the cops came and attacked him - and on how he was
never a threat to anyone, that the police attack (much
less the killing) was unnecessary.

It may be, of course, that there is more to the story,
but if even this much turns out to be true, it's
enough to paint a very damning picture.

Ricky  

--- Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com> wrote:

> An opinion in the News Gazoo:
> This death looks very suspicious.
> Anybody have connections in Georgetown?
> 
> Police shouldn't get special treatment in
> investigation
> Monday November 6, 2006
> 
> Once again, a local police agency isn't being
> forthright in releasing
> information about an incident in which a man died
> while being pursued
> by police. This time, it's a case involving a
> Georgetown police
> officer who reportedly fell upon 47-year-old Curtis
> Sloan during a
> foot chase last Wednesday night. Mr. Sloan died of
> blunt force trauma
> to the chest, according to preliminary autopsy
> reports.
> 
> Vermilion County Sheriff Pat Hartshorn, whose
> department is
> investigating the incident, declined to release the
> name of the police
> officer who was pursuing Mr. Sloan. On the other
> hand, Hartshorn was
> eager to report that Mr. Sloan had been arrested 58
> times in Vermilion
> County. With that kind of public relations spin
> being presented this
> early in the police probe, members of the public are
> left to question
> how legitimate an investigation will be.
> 
> There is absolutely no reason why the name of the
> police officer
> should not be released. If the unnamed police
> officer had died while
> pursuing someone sought in a home invasion, you can
> be certain that
> police would have released not only the officer's
> name but the
> suspect's identity.
> 
> This is not the first time this has happened in a
> local police
> investigation, but it ought to be the last. Most
> recently, Champaign
> police refused to identify an officer who had shot a
> man who was
> walking in front of his home, carrying a BB gun.
> 
> Secrecy in these cases serves no purpose to anyone.
> But it does raise
> doubts about how thorough a police investigation of
> a police-related
> incident will be, and gives fuel to those who
> believe such
> investigations should be handled by civilian review
> boards.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
> 303 W. Locust St.
> Urbana, IL 61801
> briandolinar at gmail.com
> 




 
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