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Community speakers press Pocatello council for accountability, training after police shooting of Victor Perez
Summary
Public comment at the Pocatello City Council focused on the April 5 shooting of Victor Perez, with multiple speakers demanding release of officers' names, firing of officers, improved training on mental-health and developmental-disability responses, and cooperation with the state investigation.
Pocatello — Public comment at the City Council meeting was dominated by demands for accountability after the April 5 police shooting of Victor Perez, multiple speakers said. Dozens of residents and students addressed the council, asking for officer names to be released, firings, improved training and cooperation with the Idaho attorney general's investigation.
Kyler Johnson, an Idaho State University student, called the police account that the threat was "imminent" inaccurate and said video showed Perez lying on the ground when officers arrived. "The police are wholly responsible for the escalation of the situation," Johnson said, and called for release of the officers' names, full cooperation with the state's investigation and firing of the four officers without pay.
Maddox Bigford Thorpe, a political science student at Idaho State University, said…
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