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1 1 1 045 COUNCIL MEETING July 8, 1985 Page Six stated he felt police officers should not work in cities where they were raised from childhood. He felt that some incidents that hap- pened to officers during childhood could later affect the officers duty on the job such as holding grudges. Mr. Helin said his mother :. was present tonight but would not make a statement. Ron Brown - 8011 Elbe Street - Mr. Brown related instances that hap- pened at his home about three years ago regarding some of his posses- sions being removed by his wifes former relatives. Mr. Brown called the Police Department to report the incident and Officer Costa arrived to take the report. During the time he was taking the re- port Officer Costa started calling Mr. Brown an alcoholic and told him he was wasting his time and said not to bother him again. Last July a person had gone into Mr. Brown's house and started caus- ing trouble. Mr. Brown removed the person from his house and called to report the incident to the Police Department. After the person was removed from the house everything had calmed down and after about one -half hour later, Officer Costa and another officer arrived. Officer Costa proceeded to poke his night stick in Mr. Brown's stomach and called him an alcoholic, trouble maker and other names and then tried to provoke another fight. He also told the Council that some of his friends have told him that Officer Costa has called him an alcoholic on other occassions. Mr. Brown continued, approximately, a month after this above inci- dent Chief Myhre arrived at the Brown residence to remove Mrs. Brown from the home and put her in protective custody because she had bruises on her arms and legs. He called Mr. Brown a wife beater, opened the screen door and came in and asked Mrs. Brown to come with him so she could be protected. Mr. Brown felt Chief Myhre was over- stepping his authority, he should have returned to his office and called the Anoka authorities to take care of the problem. Mr. Brown said in his opinion there have been too many things hap- pening with the entire Police Department that are questionable. His personal harrassment has stopped but it has transferred to other people. Ed Seekon - 889 Main Street - Mr. Seekon said there are several in- cidents where lawyers have been hired to look into the allegations and the citizens who are involved are not coming before the Council under the advice of their lawyers. He wanted the Council to know that there are other incidents similar to what happened at the Brown residence. Judy Helin and Susan DuFour told the Council they would not make any comment as advised by their attornies.