news-journal.com Longview News-Journal, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 3A CASHMERE Top Coats - Regular Price $1,495 | SALE PRICE $999 Sport Coats - Regular Price $1,095 | SALE PRICE $799 Sweaters - Regular Price $295 | SALE PRICE $199 Scarves - Regular Price $225 | SALE PRICE $159 SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities arrested 32 people at a demonstration Monday that was organized by a Quak- er group on the border with Mexico, authorities said. Demonstrators were calling for an end to detaining and de- porting immigrants and showing sup- port for migrants in a caravan of Cen- tral American asylum seekers. A photographer for The Associated Press saw about a dozen people being handcuffed after they were told by agents to back away from a wall that the Border Patrol calls “an enforce- ment zone.” The American Friends Service Committee, which organized the demonstration, said 30 people were stopped by agents in riot gear and taken into custody while they tried to move forward to offer a ceremonial blessing near the wall. Border Patrol spokesman Eduardo Olmos said 31 people were arrested on suspicion of trespassing by the Federal Protective Service and one was arrest- ed by the Border Patrol for assaulting an agent. More than 300 people, many the lead- ers of churches, mosques, synagogues and indigenous communities, partici- pated in the demonstration at San Di- ego’s Border Field State Park, which borders Tijuana, Mexico. The rally held on a beach divided by the border wall was the second confron- tation for Border Patrol agents since a caravan of more than 6,000 migrants, predominantly Hondurans, reached Ti- juana last month. A confrontation with rock-throwers from Mexico led to U.S. agents firing tear gas into Mexico on Nov. 25 and a five-hour closure of the nation’s busiest border crossing. Thousands of migrants are living in crowded tent cities in Tijuana after undertaking a grueling journey from Central America to the U.S. border. Many face waiting weeks or months in Mexico while they apply for asylum. The U.S. is processing up to about 100 claims a day at the San Diego crossing, which is creating a backlog. The demonstration Monday was meant to launch a national week of ac- tion called “Love Knows No Borders: A moral call for migrant justice,” which falls between Human Rights Day on Monday and International Migrants’ Day on Dec. 18, the group said. “Showing up to welcome and bless children, mothers and fathers seek- ing asylum from very difficult and dehumanizing circumstances is the right and humane thing to do,” said Bishop Minerva G. Carcano, from the San Francisco Area United Methodist Church. “How we act in these moments determines who we will become as a nation.” U.S. arrests 32 at San Diego border demonstration AP Photo A man holds his hands in the air in front of a line of Border Patrol agents during a protest Monday in San Diego. U.S. officials arrested 32 people at a demonstration that was organized by a Quaker group on the border with Mexico, authorities said. Michael Cavazos/News-Journal File Photo Forest Park Middle School Principal Cynthia Wise oversees East Texas Advanced Academies campuses in Longview ISD. statewide with similar de- mographics, decrease dis- cipline referrals and fully implement the “culture conscious” model. Under the Texas Edu- cation Agency’s academic rating system, Closing the Gaps takes a look at the performance of student groups such as economical- ly disadvantaged students and English-language learners and compares aca- demic achievement of those groups with that a district’s “all students” population. The districts must reach a target for each group, ac- cording to the TEA. Board member Troy Simmons noted that he’s concerned about student performance under this model, particularly among students of color, after a June decision to lift the dis- trict’s 1970 federal desegre- gation order. Simmons said he is relieved, however, that the effort will be led by Wise. “I’m definitely looking forward to seeing the out- come,” he said. “I find a great deal of comfort in that fact that with your background, your experi- ence and what you’ve prov- en to us, a lot of concerns that I have about us moving to unitary status can be alleviated through the per- formance of these kids. In the end, that’s what we’re really concerned about.” In other business, the board approved several donations of more than $5,000, including a $100,000 grant from the Meadows Foundation for the East Texas Advanced Manu- facturing Academy. The Meadows Foundation is a Dallas-based organization that awards grants to Tex- as nonprofit organizations and public entities in areas such as arts, education, health and human services. Longview ISD From Page 1A Wednesday to Friday. Additional toys are needed for children of all ages, including teenagers. Toys valued between $15 and $50 are preferred, and gift cards are welcome. Information about how to donate toys or volunteer at the market is available at Buckner.org/ LongviewFamilyChristmas . Applied Consultants provides inspection for construction of pipelines, gathering systems, metering stations, compression sta- tion and processing plants and facilities. Buckner Northeast Texas in Longview is a faith-based nonprofit ministry dedi- cated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children, families and senior adults. Buckner Northeast Texas is an extension of Buckner International. Donation From Page 1A emergency fire and medical response in unincorporated northern Gregg County. The petition and public hearing — scheduled at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 at Judson Lions’ Club Community Center — are state-required steps before the county can call an elec- tion on May 4 for voters to consider creating ESD No. 3. Commissioners also moved forward on a grant-funded waterline re- placement project in west- ern Gregg County and amended several leases that increase tenant park- ing at East Texas Regional Airport, allow LeTourneau University to install air- craft fuel storage and reflect Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center’s official name on documents related to the hospital’s property lease with the county. ESD No. 3 Organizers for creating an emergency services dis- trict north of Longview needed signatures of at least 100 people who were both registered voters and prop- erty owners in Gregg Coun- ty. Elections Administrator Kathryn Nealy and her staff verified that at least 111 of the estimated 150 total sign- ees met the criteria needed for an election to be called. After the Jan. 14 public hearing, commissioners might discuss the matter during their Jan. 21 regular meeting at the Gregg Coun- ty Courthouse, but they have until Feb. 15 to order an election for creating the new taxing district. Thirty-four square miles of area north of Longview are currently served exclu- sively by up to 22 volunteer personnel with Judson Met- ro Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, though Longview Fire Department provides occa- sional services and backs up major incidents primarily within the city’s 3.5-mile ex- traterritorial jurisdiction. Judson Metro Fire Chief Chris Jackson has said that creating an ESD could add as many as two more fire- houses, in addition to the volunteer department’s sta- tion on Skinner Lane. Waterlines and civil rights West Gregg Special Utility District needed Gregg Coun- ty legal support to replace nearly 15,000 linear feet of waterlines in neighbor- hoods along Texas 31 west of Kilgore. The project — replac- ing 2-inch lines with 6-inch lines along Texas 31, Ron- nie Brown Road, Ace King Road and Bell Road — is made possible by a $275,000 U.S. Housing and Urban Development-Community Development Block Grant via the Texas Department of Agriculture. As a require- ment of those grants, com- missioners voted to update the county’s civil rights and Fair Housing Act policies and procedures — though the vote was 3-1, with Pct. 2 Commissioner Darryl Pri- mo voting against it because he wanted a nonelected offi- cial to serve as the county’s civil rights officer rather than County Judge Bill Stoudt. Environmental studies are underway, and construc- tion of the waterlines should begin by this summer and take about four months to complete, said Mary Kay Thomas, senior consultant with GrantWorks, which consulted on West Gregg’s grant application. Once the waterlines are complete, af- fected customers should no- tice increased pressure from their taps, she said. Christus, airport leases Commissioners amended the county’s property lease with Christus Good Shep- herd Medical Center to re- flect the hospital’s official name in lease documents, Stoudt said. The county has owned the land and part of the down- town Longview hospital building for more than 58 years, including when it was called Good Shepherd Medi- cal Center before 2017, when Christus took ownership. “We are updating all of the contracts so that it shows Christus Good Shep- herd rather than just Good Shepherd,” Stoudt said. Meanwhile, commission- ers approved Airport Di- rector Roy Miller’s request to amend a ground lease agreement between the county and airport tenant AWLH LLC, which plans to increase the size of its lot at the airport to add more than 3,000 square feet to build a parking lot for its employ- ees. The change increases AWLH’s annual rent by more than $350 to $4,715.15. Another tenant, LeTour- neau University, was award- ed a second lease amend- ment with the county to install a 10,000-gallon dou- ble-walled aboveground fuel storage and dispensing uni- ty for university aircraft at its fuel farm at the airport. “Gregg County Fire Mar- shal Mark Moore has ap- proved the installation of this fuel farm, (and it) will be subject to periodic in- spection by airport person- nel,” Miller said in county documents. District From Page 1A the jail, an alleged act of of- ficial oppression was com- mitted between the suspect and Deputy Dotson.” The Texas Penal Code says official oppression is committed if “a public servant ... intentionally subjects another to mis- treatment or to arrest, de- tention, search, seizure, dispossession, assessment or lien that he knows is un- lawful; intentionally denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity, knowing his conduct is unlawful; or in- tentionally subjects anoth- er to sexual harassment.” According to the sher- iff’s office, when Dotson returned to work after his scheduled days off after the incident, he was imme- diately placed on adminis- trative suspension, pending an investigation of official oppression. Chief Deputy Brandon Fletcher contacted the Dis- trict Attorney’s Office and the Texas Rangers to begin an investigation, the sher- iff’s office said. “Chase Dotson resigned his position with the Harri- son County Sheriff’s Office during the investigation,” officials said. “The case is active and continues to be investigated through the District Attorney’s Office and the Texas Rangers.” Probe From Page 1A NEW YORK (AP) — Outrage built Monday over a video showing police officers violently yanking a toddler from his mother’s arms at a Brooklyn public benefits office, with officials criticizing police for not de-escalating the situation and clients of the facili- ty complaining it is indicative of how the city treats social-services recipi- ents. The video, taken by a bystander, captured the chaotic scene that un- folded last Friday as officers tried to remove mother Jazmine Headley from the crowded office, where she had sat on the floor for two hours because of a lack of chairs. Police were called when she refused a security guard’s order to leave. The woman ended up lying face-up on the floor during a tug of war over her 18-month-old son. “The baby was screaming for his life,” Nyashia Ferguson, who posted video on Facebook under the name Monae Sinclair, told The New York Times. “The lady was begging for them to get off of her. I was scared.” Other clients shouted at the offi- cers. At one point, an officer can be seen pulling her stun gun and point- ing it at people in the angry crowd. Headley was charged with obstruct- ing governmental administration, re- sisting arrest, endangering the wel- fare of a child and trespassing. As of Monday afternoon, she was still in jail because there was a warrant for her arrest in New Jersey, prosecutors said. Bail was not requested and pros- ecutors were reaching out to New Jer- sey officials to “expedite her release.” A family member was taking care of the child, authorities said. The Brooklyn public defender’s of- fice called on prosecutors to dismiss the charges. At a news conference outside the benefits office Monday, Brooklyn Bor- ough President Eric Adams, a Demo- crat and former police officer, likened the officers involved in Headley’s ar- rest to “Border Patrol police snatch- ing away” a baby. He called the arrest “a blemish on our entire city.” “The mother didn’t endanger the welfare of the child. The actions of the department endangered the wel- fare of the child,” Adams said. “If it’s wrong in Mexico, then it’s wrong in New York City.” City Council Speaker Corey John- son, a Democrat, called the incident “appalling and heartbreaking,” and criticized both the police and the city agency where Headley had gone for help. “It is unacceptable that Human Resources Administration has such little capacity to handle its core func- tions that folks seeking their assis- tance must sit on the floor with their children while waiting for an appoint- ment,” he said in a statement. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday tweeted, “This was a disturbing inci- dent. Like anyone who’s watched this video, I have a lot of questions about how this was handled.” Steve Bank, commissioner of the Department of Social Services, said he was “deeply troubled” by the in- cident and a “thorough” review had been launched. He said two HRA em- ployees, whom he described as peace officers, are being placed on modified duty pending that investigation. The New York Police Department is also reviewing the situation. Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill said the video was “very disturbing.” “We were called to a chaotic situa- tion, & we’re looking at all available video to determine why certain deci- sions were made,” O’Neill said in a tweet. It wasn’t clear from court charging documents or the video why securi- ty guards at the center had ordered Headley to leave or why she refused to go. Patrick Lynch, the head of the union that represents patrol officers, said the officers were “put in an im- possible situation” and blamed shout- ing bystanders for making a tense sit- uation worse. “The event would have unfold- ed much differently if those at the scene had simply complied with the officers’ lawful orders,” he said. “The immediate rush to condemn these officers leaves their fellow cops won- dering: When confronted with a sim- ilar impossible scenario, what do you want us to do? The answer cannot be ‘do nothing.’” The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said it was investigating and hoped to reach a swift decision on whether to prosecute Headley. Police rip toddler from mother at New York office
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities arrested 32 people at a demonstration Monday that was organized by a Quak-er group on the border with Mexico, authorities said. Demonstrators were calling for an end to detaining and de-porting immigrants and showing sup-port for migrants in a caravan of Cen-tral American asylum seekers.
A photographer for The Associated Press saw about a dozen people being handcuffed after they were told by agents to back away from a wall that the Border Patrol calls “an enforce-ment zone.” The American Friends Service Committee, which organized the demonstration, said 30 people were stopped by agents in riot gear and taken into custody while they tried to move forward to offer a ceremonial blessing near the wall.
Border Patrol spokesman Eduardo Olmos said 31 people were arrested on
suspicion of trespassing by the Federal Protective Service and one was arrest-ed by the Border Patrol for assaulting an agent.
More than 300 people, many the lead-ers of churches, mosques, synagogues and indigenous communities, partici-pated in the demonstration at San Di-ego’s Border Field State Park, which borders Tijuana, Mexico.
The rally held on a beach divided by the border wall was the second confron-tation for Border Patrol agents since a caravan of more than 6,000 migrants, predominantly Hondurans, reached Ti-juana last month. A confrontation with rock-throwers from Mexico led to U.S. agents firing tear gas into Mexico on Nov. 25 and a five-hour closure of the nation’s busiest border crossing.
Thousands of migrants are living in crowded tent cities in Tijuana after undertaking a grueling journey from
Central America to the U.S. border. Many face waiting weeks or months in Mexico while they apply for asylum. The U.S. is processing up to about 100 claims a day at the San Diego crossing, which is creating a backlog.
The demonstration Monday was meant to launch a national week of ac-tion called “Love Knows No Borders: A moral call for migrant justice,” which falls between Human Rights Day on Monday and International Migrants’ Day on Dec. 18, the group said.
“Showing up to welcome and bless children, mothers and fathers seek-ing asylum from very difficult and dehumanizing circumstances is the right and humane thing to do,” said Bishop Minerva G. Carcano, from the San Francisco Area United Methodist Church. “How we act in these moments determines who we will become as a nation.”
U.S. arrests 32 at San Diego border demonstration
AP Photo
A man holds his hands in the air in front of a line of Border Patrol agents during a protest Monday in San Diego. U.S. officials arrested 32 people at a demonstration that was organized by a Quaker group on the border with Mexico, authorities said.
Michael Cavazos/News-Journal File Photo
Forest Park Middle School Principal Cynthia Wise oversees East Texas Advanced Academies campuses in Longview ISD.
statewide with similar de-mographics, decrease dis-cipline referrals and fully implement the “culture conscious” model.
Under the Texas Edu-cation Agency’s academic rating system, Closing the Gaps takes a look at the performance of student groups such as economical-ly disadvantaged students and English-language learners and compares aca-demic achievement of those groups with that a district’s “all students” population. The districts must reach a target for each group, ac-cording to the TEA.
Board member Troy Simmons noted that he’s concerned about student performance under this model, particularly among students of color, after a June decision to lift the dis-trict’s 1970 federal desegre-gation order. Simmons said he is relieved, however,
that the effort will be led by Wise.
“I’m definitely looking forward to seeing the out-come,” he said. “I find a great deal of comfort in that fact that with your background, your experi-ence and what you’ve prov-en to us, a lot of concerns that I have about us moving to unitary status can be alleviated through the per-formance of these kids. In the end, that’s what we’re really concerned about.”
In other business, the board approved several donations of more than $5,000, including a $100,000 grant from the Meadows Foundation for the East Texas Advanced Manu-facturing Academy. The Meadows Foundation is a Dallas-based organization that awards grants to Tex-as nonprofit organizations and public entities in areas such as arts, education, health and human services.
Longview ISDFrom Page 1A
Wednesday to Friday. Additional toys are needed for children of all ages, including teenagers. Toys valued between $15 and $50 are preferred, and gift cards are welcome. Information about how to donate toys or volunteer at the market is available at Buckner.org/LongviewFamilyChristmas .
Applied Consultants provides inspection for
construction of pipelines, gathering systems, metering stations, compression sta-tion and processing plants and facilities.
Buckner Northeast Texas in Longview is a faith-based nonprofit ministry dedi-cated to transforming the lives of vulnerable children, families and senior adults. Buckner Northeast Texas is an extension of Buckner International.
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emergency fire and medical response in unincorporated northern Gregg County. The petition and public hearing — scheduled at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 at Judson Lions’ Club Community Center — are state-required steps before the county can call an elec-tion on May 4 for voters to consider creating ESD No. 3.
Commissioners also moved forward on a grant-funded waterline re-placement project in west-ern Gregg County and amended several leases that increase tenant park-ing at East Texas Regional Airport, allow LeTourneau University to install air-craft fuel storage and reflect Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center’s official name on documents related to the hospital’s property lease with the county.
ESD No. 3Organizers for creating
an emergency services dis-trict north of Longview needed signatures of at least 100 people who were both registered voters and prop-erty owners in Gregg Coun-ty. Elections Administrator Kathryn Nealy and her staff verified that at least 111 of the estimated 150 total sign-ees met the criteria needed for an election to be called.
After the Jan. 14 public hearing, commissioners might discuss the matter during their Jan. 21 regular meeting at the Gregg Coun-ty Courthouse, but they have until Feb. 15 to order an election for creating the new taxing district.
Thirty-four square miles of area north of Longview are currently served exclu-sively by up to 22 volunteer personnel with Judson Met-ro Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, though Longview Fire
Department provides occa-sional services and backs up major incidents primarily within the city’s 3.5-mile ex-traterritorial jurisdiction.
Judson Metro Fire Chief Chris Jackson has said that creating an ESD could add as many as two more fire-houses, in addition to the volunteer department’s sta-tion on Skinner Lane.
Waterlines and civil rights
West Gregg Special Utility District needed Gregg Coun-ty legal support to replace nearly 15,000 linear feet of waterlines in neighbor-hoods along Texas 31 west of Kilgore.
The project — replac-ing 2-inch lines with 6-inch lines along Texas 31, Ron-nie Brown Road, Ace King Road and Bell Road — is made possible by a $275,000 U.S. Housing and Urban Development-Community Development Block Grant via the Texas Department of Agriculture. As a require-ment of those grants, com-missioners voted to update the county’s civil rights and Fair Housing Act policies and procedures — though the vote was 3-1, with Pct. 2 Commissioner Darryl Pri-mo voting against it because he wanted a nonelected offi-cial to serve as the county’s civil rights officer rather than County Judge Bill Stoudt.
Environmental studies are underway, and construc-tion of the waterlines should begin by this summer and take about four months to complete, said Mary Kay Thomas, senior consultant with GrantWorks, which consulted on West Gregg’s grant application. Once the waterlines are complete, af-fected customers should no-
tice increased pressure from their taps, she said.
Christus, airport leases
Commissioners amended the county’s property lease with Christus Good Shep-herd Medical Center to re-flect the hospital’s official name in lease documents, Stoudt said.
The county has owned the land and part of the down-town Longview hospital building for more than 58 years, including when it was called Good Shepherd Medi-cal Center before 2017, when Christus took ownership.
“We are updating all of the contracts so that it shows Christus Good Shep-herd rather than just Good Shepherd,” Stoudt said.
Meanwhile, commission-ers approved Airport Di-rector Roy Miller’s request
to amend a ground lease agreement between the county and airport tenant AWLH LLC, which plans to increase the size of its lot at the airport to add more than 3,000 square feet to build a parking lot for its employ-ees.
The change increases AWLH’s annual rent by more than $350 to $4,715.15.
Another tenant, LeTour-neau University, was award-ed a second lease amend-ment with the county to install a 10,000-gallon dou-ble-walled aboveground fuel storage and dispensing uni-ty for university aircraft at its fuel farm at the airport.
“Gregg County Fire Mar-shal Mark Moore has ap-proved the installation of this fuel farm, (and it) will be subject to periodic in-spection by airport person-nel,” Miller said in county documents.
DistrictFrom Page 1A
the jail, an alleged act of of-ficial oppression was com-mitted between the suspect and Deputy Dotson.”
The Texas Penal Code says official oppression is committed if “a public servant ... intentionally subjects another to mis-treatment or to arrest, de-tention, search, seizure, dispossession, assessment or lien that he knows is un-lawful; intentionally denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity, knowing his conduct is unlawful; or in-tentionally subjects anoth-er to sexual harassment.”
According to the sher-
iff’s office, when Dotson returned to work after his scheduled days off after the incident, he was imme-diately placed on adminis-trative suspension, pending an investigation of official oppression.
Chief Deputy Brandon Fletcher contacted the Dis-trict Attorney’s Office and the Texas Rangers to begin an investigation, the sher-iff’s office said.
“Chase Dotson resigned his position with the Harri-son County Sheriff’s Office during the investigation,” officials said. “The case is active and continues to be investigated through the District Attorney’s Office and the Texas Rangers.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Outrage built Monday over a video showing police officers violently yanking a toddler from his mother’s arms at a Brooklyn public benefits office, with officials criticizing police for not de-escalating the situation and clients of the facili-ty complaining it is indicative of how the city treats social-services recipi-ents.
The video, taken by a bystander, captured the chaotic scene that un-folded last Friday as officers tried to remove mother Jazmine Headley from the crowded office, where she had sat on the floor for two hours because of a lack of chairs. Police were called when she refused a security guard’s order to leave. The woman ended up lying face-up on the floor during a tug of war over her 18-month-old son.
“The baby was screaming for his life,” Nyashia Ferguson, who posted video on Facebook under the name Monae Sinclair, told The New York Times. “The lady was begging for them to get off of her. I was scared.”
Other clients shouted at the offi-cers. At one point, an officer can be seen pulling her stun gun and point-ing it at people in the angry crowd.
Headley was charged with obstruct-ing governmental administration, re-sisting arrest, endangering the wel-fare of a child and trespassing. As of Monday afternoon, she was still in jail because there was a warrant for her arrest in New Jersey, prosecutors said. Bail was not requested and pros-ecutors were reaching out to New Jer-
sey officials to “expedite her release.”A family member was taking care
of the child, authorities said.The Brooklyn public defender’s of-
fice called on prosecutors to dismiss the charges.
At a news conference outside the benefits office Monday, Brooklyn Bor-ough President Eric Adams, a Demo-crat and former police officer, likened the officers involved in Headley’s ar-rest to “Border Patrol police snatch-ing away” a baby. He called the arrest “a blemish on our entire city.”
“The mother didn’t endanger the welfare of the child. The actions of the department endangered the wel-fare of the child,” Adams said. “If it’s wrong in Mexico, then it’s wrong in New York City.”
City Council Speaker Corey John-son, a Democrat, called the incident “appalling and heartbreaking,” and criticized both the police and the city agency where Headley had gone for help.
“It is unacceptable that Human Resources Administration has such little capacity to handle its core func-tions that folks seeking their assis-tance must sit on the floor with their children while waiting for an appoint-ment,” he said in a statement.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday tweeted, “This was a disturbing inci-dent. Like anyone who’s watched this video, I have a lot of questions about how this was handled.”
Steve Bank, commissioner of the Department of Social Services, said
he was “deeply troubled” by the in-cident and a “thorough” review had been launched. He said two HRA em-ployees, whom he described as peace officers, are being placed on modified duty pending that investigation.
The New York Police Department is also reviewing the situation. Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill said the video was “very disturbing.”
“We were called to a chaotic situa-tion, & we’re looking at all available video to determine why certain deci-sions were made,” O’Neill said in a tweet.
It wasn’t clear from court charging documents or the video why securi-ty guards at the center had ordered Headley to leave or why she refused to go.
Patrick Lynch, the head of the union that represents patrol officers, said the officers were “put in an im-possible situation” and blamed shout-ing bystanders for making a tense sit-uation worse.
“The event would have unfold-ed much differently if those at the scene had simply complied with the officers’ lawful orders,” he said. “The immediate rush to condemn these officers leaves their fellow cops won-dering: When confronted with a sim-ilar impossible scenario, what do you want us to do? The answer cannot be ‘do nothing.’”
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said it was investigating and hoped to reach a swift decision on whether to prosecute Headley.
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