A grand jury will decide if a Cedar Rapids Police officer a man. Linn county attorney Jerry Vander Sanden says having the grand jury make a decision would be in the publics best interest. Around 1 am on november 1st, Cedar Rapids Police officer lucas jones pulled over Jerime Mitchell on a routine traffic stop. That was near coe college and st. Lukes hospital. Police say the two men got into some kind of an altercation. That led officer jones to fire his gun, seriously wounding mitchell who was still inside his vehicle. Randomly. At least five of them have to agree on an indictment. The process to choose the grand jury members has already started. This is the first time Vander Sanden has used a grand jury in a case involving a Police Officer using deadly force since he took office in 2010. Tv nine contacted mitchells family attorney yesterday. The family declined to comment. Shots fired reports in cedar rapids are declining. We asked the department for records on those calls for the pas
A grand jury will decide if a Cedar Rapids Police officer a man. Linn county attorney Jerry Vander Sanden says having the grand jury make a decision would be in the publics best interest. Around 1 am on november 1st, Cedar Rapids Police officer lucas jones pulled over Jerime Mitchell on a routine traffic stop. That was near coe college and st. Lukes hospital. Police say the two men got into some kind of an altercation. That led officer jones to fire his gun, seriously wounding mitchell who was still inside his vehicle. Randomly. At least five of them have to agree on an indictment. The process to choose the grand jury members has already started. This is the first time Vander Sanden has used a grand jury in a case involving a Police Officer using deadly force since he took office in 2010. Tv nine contacted mitchells family attorney yesterday. The family declined to comment. Shots fired reports in cedar rapids are declining. We asked the department for records on those calls for the pas
Table and provide input on what the new ambulance contract should include. The county will listen but the San Jose Fire Department has to improve its Response Time. A fight is brewing over how a new ambulance contract should look in the county. One that has been taken off the table is the possibility of a Public Private partnership. Reporter that was from the Fire Chiefs Association that urged the county to be inclusive and accept ideas from the cities it serves as it finalizes its request for proposal. It is really just a draft. Reporter the county executive says the board of supervisors will take up the issue tuesday. One concern the board has is the San Jose Fire Department continues to miss its Response Time standards. That standard is to get to a call under eight minutes. Smith says the department is missing the mark 30 of the time. Only having 70 responsive time puts the citizens of san jose at risk, and thats not good. Reporter firefighters confirm those are the numbers theyve s
The city of palo alto tells us it will do what it takes to make sure it doesnt happenicide a major el nino event occur this winter. Theyre preparing for rain in palo alto. The city says it plans to launch a cleanup effort in a couple weeks here, removing debris and trimming back dead branches. It will also launch a new website at the end of october to warn locals using sensors placed along the creek. Taking advantage of new technology, new hardware thats in the creek and upstream of the creek, looking at rain. We are giving people and Emergency Responders more advanced notice of when we believe flooding will occur. This creek flooded back in 2012 and in 1998. The county says it hopes preemptive measures will keep businesses and homes as dry as possible. We go through streams throughout the county to cleanup trash, maintain vegetation, maintain the banks, for erosion, and do what we can so that when the winter rains do come, the streams are flowing. Here, the creek is already flowing a
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