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HOUSTON (AP) — Some Houston police officers
\ fear that concerns about two recent fatal shootings by
police will grow into a frenzy, creating a tense atmo-
I sphere reminiscent of Dallas less than two years ago.
“I have spoken with several Dallas officers about
ij what’s happening here, and they said it looks like we’re
in for a siege of the same,” homicide Sgt. Brian Foster
[ said Sunday. “They sent us their condolences.”
The animosity in Dallas was attributed to incidents in
I which white officers killed two black citizens who had
I called the police for help.
Now, the same animosity may arise in Houston in the
[face of the deaths of Ida Lee Delaney, 50, and Byron
.Gillum, 24.
“I’m afraid it’s gonna happen again,” Foster said,
|comparing Houston to Dallas. “We are getting similar
press and political involvement. We are getting people
^on television at the funerals of these people saying don’t
lever trust police again. City Council has people scream
ing and fainting.
“The politicians and would-be politicians are whip
ping people into a frenzy long before all the facts are in,
and we’re going to have some people getting hurt as a
jjresult,” Foster said. “We have a climate of fear that the
I citizens have been drawn into by the stumping poli
ticians and sensationalized media.”
The citizens are afraid of the police, and the police
are afraid to act, Foster said.
The Dallas emotions peaked in January of 1988,
when a Dallas officer, John Chase, was gunned down by
fear shootings
cause tension
a mentally disturbed man as onlookers urged the man
to shoot the officer.
The political firestorm in Dallas was doused by the
appointment in August 1988 of Police Chief Mack
Vines from Cape Coral, Fla., replacing Billy Prince.
Vines was credited with smoothing relations between
the department and the community.
And because Houston has a police chief whose style
appears to be similar to Vines, Dallas County Commis
sioner John Wiley Price is surprised at what’s been oc
curring in Houston.
“It seems like Houston’s returning to its old ways,”
Price said Sunday. “I’m surprised, with (Police Chief)
Lee Brown being there.”
Ed Spencer, a Dallas Police Department spokesman,
said the number of officer-involved shootings in Dallas
has decreased since Vines’ arrival.
The Dallas Police Department also changed its policy
regarding patrols to a two-man patrol system after the
murder of Chase, who was patrolling alone, Spencer
said.
The majority of Houston officers — male and female
— patrol solo, Foster said.
Price said those dissatisfied with Dallas police aren’t
pinning all their hopes on Vines. That’s why they
wanted — and still want — a civilian review board with
subpoena power.
Amid the outcry surrounding recent police incidents
in Houston, there have been demands for the creation
of such a board here. Mayor Kathy Whitmire endorsed
the idea last week.
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‘Teaching the ‘Best to J-Cy the Best
General Member Meeting and Elections
Tuesday, November 21 at the Airport Clubhouse
For information
Call President Bodie Kirby 822-3788
7:30 p.m.
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Lawmakers urge appellate court
to retry inmate after 2-year delay
It's your turn...
AUSTIN (AP) — A group of state
legislators Monday urged the Texas
I Court of Criminal Appeals to quickly
decide the case of Clarence Brand-
| ley, who remains on Death Row
; more than two years after a new trial
was recommended for him.
“We’re asking them to get off
their rear ends and move and act
and do their jobs,” Rep. Lloyd Criss,
iD-La Marque, said, noting that the
I appeals court has failed to issue a de-
Icision even though a new trial was
recommended in October 1987.
“Maybe they haven’t had enough
time,” Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Hous-
ton, said. “But today we’re going to
ask them to forget their lunch hours,
get to work on time, work beyond
five o’clock, because we believe they
can resolve this issue.”
Brandley, a black janitor at Con
roe High School, was convicted in
the 1980 rape-slaying of Cheryl Fer-
geson, a 16-year-old white girl, at the
school. His first trial ended with a
hung jury. An all-white jury found
him guilty in a second trial.
On Oct. 9, 1987, after a 10-day ev
identiary hearing moved from Con
roe to Galveston, retired State Dis
trict Judge Perry Pickett
Washington reporter to speak in Rudder
David Hoffman, White House
reporter of the Washington Post
will speak Tuesday, Nov. 21, at
5:30 p.na. in Rudder SOI,
Hoffman is the second guest
with White House experience to
aonear before Peter Roussel’s
Mass Media and the Presi
dency.
Roussel, formerly an assistant
to President Bush, is a visiting lec
turer in the Department of Jour
nalism. Former presidential
spokesman Larry Speakes spoke
last week. Hoffman’s lecture is
open to all faculty and students.
recommended that Brandley get a
new trial because the previous two
had been tainted with racism.
Brandley has said he believes that
a third trial would clear him.
Defense attorney Paul Nugent of
Houston argued before the Court of
Criminal Appeals last January that
the investigations and judicial pro
ceedings leading to Brandley’s capi
tal murder conviction were tainted
by racial discrimination.
Brandley’s attorneys have offered
evidence that police and Montgom
ery County prosecutors had set out
to prove that Brandley, the only
black janitor at the school, was guilty
rather than seeking the real killer.
Prosecutors, who have maintained
that Brandley is guilty, have denied
allegations that he was the subject of
racial discrimination.
Criss said he and other lawmakers
are introducing a resolution in the
Texas House this week calling on the
Court of Criminal Appeals, the
state’s highest criminal court, to take
prompt action.
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