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| March 26, 2013 |
Anger over unannounced police drill
By Lauren Stanforth
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A photo shared on Facebook of police involved in a hostage training scenario at buildings that are scheduled to be demolished at Ida Yarbourgh Apartments in Albany March 21, 2013. Albany police said they're reviewing training procedures after complaints about the proximity of tear gas and the release of fake ammunition to apartments that are still occupied.
Chelsey Morales said police confined her to an apartment.
Thurston Gross said police threatened to arrest him for trespassing as he tried to get to his own home.
What happened at Ida J. Yarbrough Homes Thursday during a police training exercise was unacceptable, said residents and community advocates at a lively meeting of the Arbor Hill Neighborhood Association on Monday night at the Arbor Hill/West Hill Library.
Albany Police Department's SWAT team conducted a hostage rescue drill in a vacant apartment at the public housing complex, just a few yards away from occupied homes.
Residents heard gunfire, flash grenades and breaking glass, and said they had no idea it was a training exercise.
"It looked like a small military operation complete with fatigues and full gear," said Ida Yarbrough resident Lauren Manning, who said her 4-year-old child is still shaken up. "Children should not be exposed to that, not on television, not on radio and definitely not in real life."
On Saturday, Police Chief Steven Krokoff said it was "insensitive" to conduct a drill near the occupied apartments.
Deputy Police Chief Brendan J. Cox, who attended Monday's neighborhood meeting, said there was a breakdown in communication.
Cox said police officers met with the building manager and had visited the apartments Tuesday night to inform neighbors of the upcoming training exercise on Thursday morning, but residents in the audience — including the president of the tenants association — said nobody was told.
"You can't bring me one person who was notified," Gross said.
"This is a wake-up call," said Cox, who said police need to do a better job of informing neighbors about training exercises near their homes.
Jay Cunningham, director of security operations for Albany Housing Authority, said there will be no more tactical training in Ida Yarbrough, but he would not rule out training exercises at other public housing properties.
Albany police often use vacant buildings owned by the housing authority for training exercises, as do other agencies. The U.S. Marshals Service performed a training exercise at Ida Yarbrough earlier this month. The training exercises are necessary and save lives, Cox and Cunningham said.
Two Ida Yarbrough residents said they like having police training at the housing complex and believe it makes their neighborhood safer. Most didn't like it.
Corrie Terry of Albany and founder of Mothers Against Murders and Shootings, said the incident made residents feel "devalued."
"Children shouldn't have to walk through simulated war zones," Terry said. "We need to be valued as a people that have a right to live without fear."
Residents said the problems were compounded by the way they were treated during the drill.
Gross was trying to get to his apartment, but he said police would not let him walk through the training area and told him to walk around the block to get to his apartment. He said police threatened to charge him with trespassing.
Morales said one officer forced her to stay inside an apartment where she was baby-sitting a child. Cox said nobody should have been confined to their apartment.
The police department will help bring in trauma counselors for children and residents upset by the training exercise, Cox said.
A protest of the police's training has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the corner of Livingston Avenue and North Pearl Street.
ccrowley@timesunion.com • 518-454-5348
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Now the Spirit speaketh evidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error, and doctrines of devils, Which speak lies through hypocrisy, and have their consciences burned with an hot iron, Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with giving thanks of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing ought to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, which hast been nourished up in the words of faith, and of good doctrine which thou hast continually followed.(1Timothy 4:1-6, 1599 Geneva Bible) |
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Pimped: Republicans going gay for cash
One major motivation in the flip-flopping of so many Republicans, it appears, is the belief that there are loads of campaign cash to be had on the side of the homosexual marriage issue. The professing conservatives can’t line up on the street corners fast enough advertising themselves for whatever position the sodomites would like them to assume.
Choose ye this day whether ye shall stand for your beliefs, or be pimped out to homosexuals by your Party leaders.
Politico reports,
Several Republicans pointed to Sen. Rob
Portman’s switch in support of gay marriage as a watershed moment for
the party. And more than two dozen high-profile Republicans asked the
Supreme Court to back gay rights. And even Foster Friess, Rick
Santorum’s top benefactor, has softened his stance on domestic
partnership.
“Republicans’ intolerance to marriage
equality has been detrimental to winning,” said Aaron McLear, a
California Republican strategist. “Big donors understand that they don’t
want to invest in campaigns focused on a losing issue, and I think
certainly the fiscal issues for Republicans are much more marketable.”
Republican fundraiser Jim McCray agreed.
“I think it will open up donors across the board, because it
demonstrates Republicans are trying to recreate the big tent they were
known for,” McCray said. . . .
Several lawmakers told POLITICO the issue
has come up in meetings with potential big donors, who take a different
view than the party base.
Portman himself . . . vice chairman of
finance for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, held a dozen
meetings with big New York donors recently in an attempt to assuage
their fears about the direction of the party.
One GOP fundraising operative said Portman’s announcement could provide a fundraising boost to the debt-saddled NRSC. . . .
Log Cabin Republicans is already looking to use Portman’s announcement to boost its fundraising.
It is helpful to note that most of the Republicans referenced in this report are from California and New York. Some “big tent.” If the Republican party comes to be defined by the Republican Parties in NYC, LA, and San Francisco, then why even have a Republican Party?
If on the other hand, the rest of the conservatives in between the blue coasts have something to say on the ethical values of the Party, today would be a good time to say it.
http://americanvisionnews.com/5699/pimped-out-republicans-going-gay-for-cash/
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