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October 12, 1995
Motorist angered by police attitudes
From page one
start snatching people off the
streets just because someone
calls in to say a neighbor ran a
traffic light, or just based on
anyone’s say-so.”
Ms. Richardson later told the
Focus, “Ifeveryone were to abide
by common-sense laws, then we
would have a chaotic society.”
Lt. Wylds also told her, she
said, that the North Augusta
police couldn’t arrest the men
and bring them back into Geor
gia without evidence, which she
later called and confirmed.
But, according to Chief Deputy
Ronnie Strength, normal proce
dure entails informing the Au
gusta Police Department of such
911 calls. The call was made
from within city limits, he said,
Mall bias charged
From page one
The third plaintiff, Eddie
Chatman Jr., said that he was
detained while running to catch a
bus in the mall’s transit facility
Dec. 20. Chatman, then 17, said
mall guards apparently objected
Triti
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From page one
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gress,” Mr. Hodge said.
DOE estimates that an accel
erator to manufacture tritium,
theradioactive gas thatincreases
the explosive power of nuclear
weapons, will cost approximately
+52.5 billion and create 2,760 con
struction jobs during peak peri
ods and 624 jobs for full opera
tion.
While other Augusta-Aiken
area political leaders favor build
ing a more controversial multi
purpose reactor, Ms. McKinney
has long pushed for an accelera
tor as aless costly, more efficient
and less environmentally harm
ful source.
“Not only is an accelerator less
harmful to the environment, it
can also be built in half the time
by American firms, not a Euro
pean consortium,” she said.
Meantime, DOE must decide
which conventional reactor will
be acquired or contracted out as
a standby to produce tritium
during an emergency — part
two oftheir dual-track approach.
Supported by Ms. McKinney,
neighboring Burke County’s
Plant Vogtle is the likely pick.
“The accelerator is not the end
of it. I plan to continue working
behind the scenes to convince
DOE that the Vogtle reactor
would make an excellent choice
to round out its two- track ap
proach,” Ms. McKinney said.
Los Alamos, Bechtel and
Grumman are the companies
expected to work on the design
and construction of the accelera
tor. ABB, a Swedish company,
would’ve built the multi-purpose
reactor.
Tritium, which decays 5.5 per
cent yearly, mustbe replenished
periodically. The U.S. hasn’t
produced any since 1988 when
SRS shut down its reactor, and
it currently has no production
source.
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but 911 calls made on cellular
phones are automatically routed
to the Sheriff's Department. She
should have been advised to stay
put until a city police car ar
rived, he said.
P.A. Williams, of the
department’s internal affairs of
fice, blames the problem on tech
nology. He said that a computer
malfunction caused the call to be
“dropped,” and the operator
didn’t have time to tell her to
wait for a police car. He also said
that the tape made of the con
versation was of poor quality.
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to his running. He said they re
moved him fromn the bus, hand
cuffed him, photographed him and
interrogated him for about 30 min
utes. He said he was barred from
the mall for two months.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. Dis
trict Court in St. Paul on Friday,
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Tuesday, October 17, 1995, A Day for Augusta College volunteers will join
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But Ms. Richardson denied the
call was dropped, and said she
had time to tell the dispatcher
where she would be, give the
telephone number, and hang up.
She doesn’t know why the tape
would be bad. “There was no
static or anything like that,” she
said.
She also said that Lt. Wylds
never advised her to file a com
plaint with the Augusta Police
Department.
Chief Deputy Strength reacted
with surprise when informed of
the conversation that took place
ment company, which oversees
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the mall’s transit center.
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between Ms. Richardson and Lt.
Wylds. When asked if she had
done the right thing by report
ing the incident, he said, “Abso
lutely.” :
Wednesday evening, Ms.
Richardson was still visibly up
set— by both encounters. “When
will ... police departments real
ize that innocent citizens will do
what is necessary to protect
themselves and their loved ones
if there are no laws on the book,
besides common-sense laws, to
protect innocent, tax-payingciti
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