November 2008

by none

October 6, 2008

Dear Mayor Mah and Olympia City Council Members,

Thank you for your letter of June 26th responding to our request that you organize a citizen’s taskforce to investigate the actions of members of the Olympia city police during the February 15, 2008 incident on our campus.

We are disappointed that you and the Council have decided not to establish a citizen’s taskforce. We fear that what happened on our campus is not, as you suggest, “a unique and unfortunate occurrence”, but rather a reflection of what City Manager Hall described in his letter of June 11th the “tensions . . .