“If you guys hadn’t been there, we would’ve gassed them all.”
Cottonwood militia leader Woody Clendenen claims those words were spoken by some Redding Police officers regarding actions RPD would have taken against June 2 protesters who’d marched for racial equality in Redding; if not for the militia-groups’ assistance that night.
It’s been nine months since protesters gathered in front of the Shasta County Courthouse in response to the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody.
Woody Clendenen, Cottonwood militia leader, speaks at the Church of Glad Tidings in Live Oak Friday.
Clendenen, who was at the Freedom Coalition Meeting as a California State Militia representative, shared this piece of previously undisclosed information Friday at Church of Glad Tidings in Live Oak, Calif., where the militia leader/barber was a guest speaker. The meeting covered myriad topics, such as praise for Constitutional sheriffs who assertively ban federal agencies from
After going several years without a raise, the Redding police force last week got the OK to give a series of pay boosts that amount to a 20.5% increase by September 2022. That would take an officer’s monthly wage to $9,298.99, up from the current $7,717 a month.
But recalibrating pay scales isn’t the only issue on Redding Police Chief Bill Schueller’s plate this year.
Now in his second year of running Redding’s police force, Schueller sat down with the Record Searchlight to weigh in on issues including officer recruitment, recent officer-involved shootings and the possibility of adding body cameras.