12/07/1982 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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Page S . Chief Priestly : "I know because it has happened to me as well. " Sel. Garland: "Their reaction may be colored by this experience, they may be exagerating, I don' t know who they are but if in fact that this statement here at least a half a dozen timest.contrary to popular believe we are guilty until he proves us innocent, I think that is a highly improper statement. If he did make it, I don' t know. " Chm. Thomas : "And sometimes you can be very intimidated, like you can as an individual feel that they are guilty and you can project that without saying anything, by the manner in which you are interrogated. You can tell when you are up against a guy that doesn't believe what you are saying. I think this is what I got out of the meeting when she was here . I definately get this out of this letter, ' She was put in a position of being intimidated, I don ' t know, What would you fellas want us to do? Would you like us to get someone from the outside? What do you think?" Chief Frye : " I myself am not going to investigate this . " Chm. Thomas : " I think it would be very difficult for you. You can' t come up with anything other than a hundred percent. " Chief Frye: "I know both fellows well. I would probably be a litte .prejudice . " Sel. Garland: "I don' t know whether her statement here is correct or not , the question by having us come to the fire station on several occasion for questions and reading us the meranda rights , we could read this one way that the fire department read them the meranda rights , I don' t know. " Chief Priestly : " To be honest with you Mr. Garland,. I sat in on a couple of those meetings . The decorum of those meetings was nothing, there was absolutely nothing to indicate that he was belligerant or, that is the truth, I don' t know whether this lady is over reacting or not. " Chm, Thomas : " We don' t know either. " Chief Priestly: "I find it:.dfficult ,to- understand when we had the public meeting here with the press why she didn' t appear if the charges were legitimate . Why then was she not here?" Chm. Thomas : " Well we unfortunately I asked that we .did not inform her that we were having that meeting. " Sel. Garland: " Your talking about the informal meeting?" Chm. Thomas : "Yes , it was an informal meeting. So Chief can you give us some guidance , or where can we turn to get the outside indi- vidual to look into this matter, " Chief Frye : " Kind of tough to say . I wouldn' t want the DA in on this I don ' t think it is that important. "