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JUNE 1, 2000
Chief Few offered D.C. fire chief’s job
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nent chief since Donald Edwards
stepped down last fall. Interim
Chief Thomas Tippett resigned
May 5 after the D.C. financial
control board put its foot down
concerning staffing changes he
made that put the department $4
million in the red in less than half
a fiscal year.
Tippett had said he was going
to be offered the job at about
$116,000 annually if he stayed.
District officials would not con
firm that assertion.
Young said he would like to
keep Few as fire chief. “He turned
us into a big-city fire department
overnight” when Augusta and
Richmond County merged their
fire departments, he said. “Natu
rally, there’s been a lot of griping
and sniping, but he did a wonder
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But the Augusta mayor said
there is no way his city, which
pays Few about $85,000 a year,
can match the District’s salary.
“That would start aripple effect
with all the public safety officials,”
he said.
Youngsaid hehadn’theard from
Few since he received the offer,
but the mayor said he expected a
decision to be announced this
week.
It’s not the first time Young has
faced the possibility that his fire
chief would leave. Few, who has
been the chief in Augusta since
1997, iast year was offered the
fire chief’s job in DeKalb County,
Ga., just outside Atlanta. Few
decided to stay in Augusta after
the City Council raised hissalary,
Young said.
. Youngsaidheisn’t sure whether
Few is dedicated to staying in
Augusta beyond his daughter’s
June wedding date. :
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Few couldn’t be reached for com
ment last night.
Few was a firefighter with the
East Point, Ga., department for
25 years, eventually becoming its
chief, before leaving to head the
newly consolidated Augusta-Rich
mond County Fire Department.
During his career, Few hasbeen
honored for saving a child in a fire
in 1985 and for promoting fire
education programs in 1989. He
was named fire chief of the year
by the International Association
of Firefighters in 1998.
Second on the list of three final
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If Few decides he wants to come
to the District, Williams will
presenthisnominationtotheD.C.
Council, which would then vote
on whether to approve him.
Tippett advocated restoring a
fifth firefighter to ladder trucks
and reinstating aides to battalion
chiefs, positionsthat were slashed
in recent budget cuts. Those cuts,
Tippett and others contend, may
have contributed to the deaths of
three firefighters in the past two
years.
But the impasse over restoring
the $4 million ultimately led to
Tippett’sresignation. The control
board said the department’s bud
get was in disarray and denied
the request for more money.
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Jury rules black man negligent when
attacked by skinheads in Fred Meyer store
By WILLIAM McCALL
Associated Press Writer
PORTLAND, Ore.
Ajuryhasruled ablack man was
partly to blame for an attack by
white skinheads in a Fred Meyer
storeand awarded himjust $53,000
of the $1 million he was seeking
from the grocery and retail chain.
Theall-white Clackamas County
jury alsorejected a claim that Fred
Meyer, owned by Kroger Co. of
Cincinnati, discriminated against
the man by discouraging him from
shopping at the store after the at
tack.
“It had absolutely nothing to do
with discrimination and the jury
supported that,” said Rob Boley, a
spokesman for Fred Meyer, which
was founded in Portland.
Velazquez “Val” Polk sued Fred
Meyer in 1998 after he was at
tacked at a suburban Oregon City
storein 1997 by three whites wear
ing skinhead symbols.
Polk was shoved by one of the
whites, who made racist insults.
Polk responded by punching the
man and knocking him down, ac
cording to testimony.
“This is a guy who was there
with his fiancee just looking for
milk and allergy medicine,” said
Polk’s lawyer, Jack Hoffman.
Polk said in an interview Friday
that he was disappointed that no
Fred Meyer employees stepped in
tohelp him when the racial insults
were loud enough to be heard all
over the store.
“You could have heard him (the
skinhead) at the front of the store
and we were at the back,” Polk
said. “The pharmacy lady heard it,
and she was at least four aisles
away.”
He said the Fred Meyer store
detective failed to intervene, de
spiterepeated requests by custom
ers, until one of the skinheads
warned the others police were
arriving and they fled. The store
detective aimed pepper spray in
theirdirection, and ended upspray
ing Polk and the lone white cus
tomer who tried to help him, Polk
said.
The store detective “turned her
back on me and she asked a cus
tomer whether she should spray
him, and the customer said, ‘lf you
don’t spray him, I will,”” Polk said.
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Polk claimed that a Fred Meyer
manager told him to avoid the stere
when he returned a couple days
after the fight, but the company
claims the manager was simply
trying to protect Polk from any
further attacks. '
“But the skinheads were outside
the store,” Polk said. “Shouldn’t I
be safer inside the store?”
Two of the whites — Daniel
Wright Sessions, then 20, and his
ex-girlfriend, Angelina Maddox,
then 22 —were convicted of felony
intimidation and other charges.
They both served short jail terms,
and were ordered to stay away
from skinhead groups.
Polk claimed that Fred Meyer
was negligent for failing to provide
adequate security, failing to train
employeestorecognize hate groups
and failing to warn Polk that
skinheads were in the store.
A Portland State University so
ciology professor who testified for
Polk said he was surprised by the
verdict because of the high aware
ness of skinhead violence in Port
land following the 1988 beating
death of a black man.
“Part of my testimony was that
they should know that skinheads
roamingthe aisles of your store are
going to create a hostile environ
ment,” said Randy Blazak, who is
on leave at Emory University in
Atlanta.
Three skinheads were convicted
of the 1988 beating death of an
Ethiopian immigrant who was at
tacked in Portland simply because
he was black. .
The convictions led to a lawsuit
against white supremacist Thomas
Metzger, alleging he incited the
threeskinheadstoattack Mulugeta
Seraw. A jury ordered Metzger to
pay $12.5 million in damages.
“You'd think they'd be a little
morevigilant, consideringthe com
munity history,” Blazak said of
Fred Meyer. “But maybe now they
will.”
Boley said the company was
making every effort to keep
skinheads out of its stores.
“Discrimination is one of the ba
sic things that we’re constantly
battling,” Boley said.
Thejury,however, ruled the store
was 53 -percent negligent. It also
ruled that Polk was 47 percent
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