Amazing ...Full update on #40 ...
John Wiley Price (again) isn't trying to stir things up. Has he changed or what ?? ...
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Sgt. Gil Cerda, president of the Dallas chapter of the National Latino Peace Officers Association, said the decision to fire Bolton was not particularly surprising.
“All we can say is, we don’t know which straw broke the camel’s back,” Cerda said. “It was something that was in the making. The city manager made the decision to carry it through. I don’t know if he was stimulated by City Council members, or just by the trouble that’s happened over the past four years. Chief Bolton had a tough job. He was hit hard from day one. I don’t know anyone who could cope with that in those four years.”
Bolton supporters said they were disappointed that the city’s first black chief had been fired.
Councilman James Fantroy said he was concerned that race relations in the city will deteriorate as a result.
“The black community believed in Chief Bolton. And so I hope that this doesn’t cause any adverse effect on our city,” he told WFAA-TV.
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price pointed to the chief’s clashes with Mayor Laura Miller as a reason he may have been dismissed.
“We understand the mayor has felt like that Chief Bolton was the weak link in the chain … and was probably disposable,” Price said.
Benavides said neither the council nor Miller played a role in his decision to terminate Bolton.
"The city manager hired Mr. Bolton," he said. "The city manager terminated Mr. Bolton."