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Butte County’s system for investigating officer-involved shootings has stalled without explanation, leaving several cases unresolved and marking a sharp departure from a pattern of rapid exonerations stretching back decades.
District Attorney Mike Ramsey, who oversees such investigations, has issued no reports on police killings since 2020 or on non-fatal police shootings since 2017, according to an extensive review of county records.
A number of cases remain open as a result.
Dozens of Chico-area people joined the Labor Day weekend Bridge Banners Action today, protesting Trump Administration conduct and policy from overpasses on Eaton Road, Cohasset, 20th Street and Skyway.
According to the Defenders of Democracy coalition, the theme was “We Are OVER It,” and local protesters acted in concert with West Coast residents in the “Mexico to Canada Bridge Banner Challenge.”
The demonstrators received supportive honks from passing vehicles, and said they would be protesting as well the mornings of Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. The coalition is “devoted to nonviolent activism towards changing the current racist and authoritarian political culture,” a press statement said.
When I was about 7, my family was on a camping holiday in Queensland, Australia, when my father took me aside and relayed in detail the events that led to his escape from Nazi relocation camps in Austria.
My parents were Holocaust survivors, and part of their worldwide escape took them through several countries to Australia, where they had finally settled and where I was born. I’m an immigrant, and in the United States today, just saying this now puts me at risk of summary arrest and deportation.
The City Council considered a new ordinance that would establish several operational standards for the conduct of massage establishments at its Aug. 19 meeting.
Under the new ordinance, all massage practitioners would have to be certified by the state massage practitioner regulatory body, California Massage Therapy Council (CMTAC).
Code Enforcement Supervisor Charlene Durkin said the goal is to address prostitution and human trafficking in the industry.
The Chico City Council voted 5-2 to reverse its decision to close the entire stretch of South Park Drive that runs parallel to Woodland Avenue to vehicular traffic.
In June, the Council had passed a plan to make this stretch in Lower Bidwell Park vehicle free. But car owners, residents and biking advocates all pushed back. Concerns included worsening traffic in the area, inconvenience for disabled people, and the loss of parking spaces on South Park Drive.
Read this story in English here. Changemaker es una serie ocasional de ChicoSol que presenta perfiles de personas que contribuyen a la comunidad.
En la segunda estrofa de “Frontera”, el primer sencillo del álbum recién lanzado “Entremundos”, un pescador emprende el angustioso viaje desde su pueblo en Sonora, México, hasta los Estados Unidos, en busca de trabajo.
El cuento del pescador es típico de las historias que los compositores, miembros del conjunto Debajito de Chico, conocen bien. Como parte del tema “Frontera”, esperan que esta rompa con el alboroto y la represión antiinmigrante que ha seguido ensombreciendo la vida en este país.
