409-day drought ended: journey to first day of grand jury on Cayuga Nation Police highlights local government hesitancy, federal nonintervention
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The first day of a Seneca County grand jury relating to the Cayuga Nation Police Department has officially ended, but it took 409-days for any sort of government to formally address the violent conflict in a court of law or any public forum for that matter.
Ironically, however, that first forum was a grand jury that started on Tuesday, April 13.
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“They were never charged. They never received any citation whatsoever.
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Travis John, a member of the Seneca Nation, is just one of three men who had been allegedly arrested by the Cayuga Nation Police Department almost a year ago after a press conference spurred a brutal brawl on Sat., Feb. 29.
John had been reportedly charged for a single count of criminal trespass and assaulting a Cayuga Nation police officer.
Hajenhne Brown of the Onondaga Nation, had also been charged with the same crimes while Austin Glass, an Oneida Nation member, had been charged with damaging a Cayuga Nation police vehicle.