{"id":8436,"date":"2012-02-08T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2012-07-03T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T18:12:34","slug":"parris-civilian-oversight-board-for-deputy-involved-shootings-not-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/02\/08\/parris-civilian-oversight-board-for-deputy-involved-shootings-not-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Parris: Civilian Oversight Board for deputy-involved shootings not needed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lancaster R. Rex Parris was questioned after his State of the City address to the AV Chamber of Commerce Wednesday. We'll have more on the State of the City address Thursday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 At a press conference Wednesday<\/a>, local civil rights activists joined family members in calling for elected officials to create a civilian oversight board to look into the recent deputy-involved shootings of Darrell Logan Jr., Christian Cobian and Donald Handy.<\/p>\n

However, Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris says such an entity is not needed because the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department already has \u201cmore oversight than you can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose guys are investigated and investigated and investigated and the pressure that is put upon them is enormous,\u201d said Parris at a luncheon Wednesday. \u201cI didn\u2019t hear anybody come up with a reason why a citizens oversight commission is going to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Questioned after his State of the City address to the AV Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, Parris acknowledged the pain felt by those who\u2019ve lost family members due to deputy-involved shootings, but said as mayor, his support had to go to the deputies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that their families are in enormous pain and if I wasn\u2019t the mayor of this City, I wouldn\u2019t be making these statements, but I am the mayor of this City and I\u2019m leading this City, and we support our deputies until there\u2019s a reason not to and then people are held accountable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Parris dismissed accusations that deputies were targeting minorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people have made a lot of political traction out of that accusation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rather, Parris said, deputies were doing what they were supposed to do, and what the City had asked them to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cHard choices are being made,\u201d he said. \u201cDo I think they are targeting minorities? No, I don\u2019t. I think that they are doing their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parris said the City was working on a process that would teach children what they are supposed to do when they encounter law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to teach our children this is not a game, this is not a time to be the warrior, and it is certainly not the time to make hand gestures,\u201d Parris said. \u201cWe could do a lot better teaching our young people how to relate in those situations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER \u2013 At a press conference Wednesday, local civil rights activists joined family members in calling for elected officials to create a civilian oversight board to look into the recent deputy-involved shootings of Darrell Logan Jr., Christian Cobian and Donald Handy. However, Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris says such an entity is not needed because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}