Posted on 09/09/2008 8:31:01 PM PDT by Ladycalif
The audience was overwhelmingly in favor of checkpoints, although protesters did fill the lawn outside the Library.
The grant was accepted on a 6-1 vote, with Councilwoman Cristina Carrizosa opposed.
Kudos to the mayor for rising to the occasion. Just when she's getting the hang of leadership, she's leaving.
Carrizosa, for her part, said before the vote that she's fine with checkpoints but doesn't think Pomona's are being done appropriately.
Carrizosa, who earlier this year compared Pomona officers to the Gestapo, also insisted she has always been a friend of the Police Department.
At that comment, Chief Joe Romero, who was at the lectern, was apparently unable to keep a poker face.
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Well, I guess they didn’t have room to explicitly say so in that massive screed, that epic saga, but I sort of gather that the checkpoints are to detect illegals and that’s why they’re popular (and why a Freeper would be in favor). I think I may finally have found a cause sufficient for cops to erect a checkpoint!
Very good...
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