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Deputy Compol Threatens Gangs With Another State of Emergency
posted (November 5, 2018)
Last week we showed you the robbery spree in the city where Midtown Restaurant, Freetown Drug Store, El Paso Fast Food and Belcove Hotel were robbed by armed gunmen. Of course, at Belcove, a responding police officer was shot and killed.

Police didn't seem like they could offer to do too much about it - other than the usual platitudes about increasing patrols.

But, today, Deputy Compol Chester Williams, seized, it seems, by some higher directive said they may institute another state of emergency for troublesome gangs. Here's how he put it:...

Chester Williams- Deputy ComPol
"I will tell you that we are currently monitoring the activities of the different gang groups and, I will tell you, monitoring very closely. And if it is that we see that they continue these sort of actions, as well as targeting each other, so much so that it puts the lives of the ordinary law abiding people at risk or in some degree of threat, then we might move to invoke the State of Emergency again and have them away for the September and Christmas season. So, I want to say to them today that we are monitoring them very closely and if they continue with the way they are going then we will do what we need to do to ensure that the masses do not suffer at the hands of the minority."

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