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Mr. Kelly said he generally agreed that the policies should apply to a broad range of situations, but <br />he also thought general orders 901-1 and 901-2 should be revised to include a subsection that <br />addressed public assembly demonstrations and civil disturbances. He suggested that a static <br />peaceful resister in a political situation could be allowed to make a statement by holding onto a <br />railing for a certain period of time before being arrested, which might diffuse the situation. Mr. <br />Prozanski thought the commission had taken a step in that direction in the changes it made. He <br />noted that the commission had also asked the department to develop a new policy related to the <br />use of bicycles by patrol and crowd control staff. Mr. Denner added that the policies had been <br />revised to ensure that Command staff considered its response in proportion to the event. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey asked that the changes to the policies be provided to the council in legislative <br />format. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ returned to the issue of the situational aspects of the policy. He said that he witnessed <br />some of the events of June 2000 and saw some of the video tapes. His contacts from citizens <br />indicated the community was in general very supportive of the police response to the protests or <br />indicated a belief that the police were not forceful enough in dealing with the protests. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ agreed with Mr. Prozanski that the policies were not set in stone, and represented a start <br />in the right direction. He commended the citizen involvement that went into the commission's <br />policy formulation and hoped it would continue. <br /> <br />Mr. Rayor acknowledged that the policies represented an attempt to target the police response to <br />protests in terms of the totality of events, and he appreciated that. He thought the policies were <br />positive in nature and, if applied by the officers in the field, would produce a positive result. Mr. <br />Rayor said he was concerned about effecting the arrest and had a difficult time separating that <br />concept from the policies before the council. He thanked the commission for its efforts. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said that there had been good collaboration between the commission and Police <br />Department and progress had been made. She advocated for a different approach to peaceful <br />political resistance, which she thought should be differentiated from criminal activity. She said the <br />department did not want different categories of people to be affected by different policies, but Ms. <br />Bettman thought that it would be an ongoing issue that needed more discussion. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly could not reconcile the Community Values Statement regarding peaceful and respectful <br />assembly with the fact a control hold could be used to take a passive resister in custody with what <br />he termed "no parameters at all." Referring to the memorandum from Chief Hill responding to <br />questions he had asked earlier (page 74 of the meeting packet), Mr. Kelly found the proposed <br />added policy language related to news media access to be "positively chilling" and requested a <br />response from the commission and the department. Mr. Denner said that the policy language <br />came from the description of civil disturbances in State statute. Because a civil disturbance <br />constituted a violation and rises to criminal behavior, the order to disperse must be given as a <br />resolution to the offense. Mr. Kelly requested a written response that cited State statute. <br /> <br />B.Action: Innovative Development <br /> <br />The council was joined by former Planning and Development Department Director Paul Farmer. <br />He provided the council with a slide show presentation regarding two projects that demonstrated <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 29, 2001 Page 5 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />