If you watched or attended the Pasadena Public Safety meeting held Dec 7, 2015 started around 5:30pm and was done at nearly midnight.  At least two dozen speakers waited to speak  until 10pm to express support for Pasadena Police and Chief Sanchez, but just as many raised questions and were critical of the council members, safety committee, City Manager Michael Beck and Police Chief Sanchez faced a barrage of questions from councilmembers and members of the public.

This is some of the video where tensions between Councilmember Hampton and Councilmember Madison. Councilmember Hampton responding to Councilmember Madison regarding some of his comments and they way he was addressed.

Here’s some of the meeting video:

Several including councilmember Hampton repeatedly questioned the intent of the OIR report to be released to the public in its entirety, but at the same time City Manager Beck and Police Chief Sanchez, explained that the scope of the agreement with the OIR Group, who wrote the report had a specific direction to provide recommendations, that the details of the event was not the primary focus. Councilmember Kennedy, Chair of the Public Safety Committee read the contract which is public.  We have requested the agreement.

It is The OIR report was released with redactions proposed by the city and approved by LA County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant.

An appellate court ruled that some of the redactions went too far in protecting criticism of the Pasadena Police rather than confidential personnel information. Chalfant ordered the city to file the report again with less redactions by Dec. 1

In 2009 there was a deadly shooting in Pasadena, with a OIR report being written by the same OIR Group which authored the McDade OIR report. With the Barnes shooting report, there was no redactions and there is controversy as to wether or not it was “accidentally” released to the public by  then  Pasadena Police Chief Melikian.

Officers (Matthew) Griffin and (Jeffrey) Newlen received no disciplinary action as a result of their actions.

Police Chief Bernard Melekian

In 2009, Pasadena Police Chief and President of the CA Police Chiefs Association Bernard Melekian discusses the impacts to public safety if the state borrows local government funding.