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Residents demand council response after trustee’s slur and raise policing transparency concerns
Summary
Multiple residents urged the council to condemn a school trustee’s public use of a racial slur, asked the city to address police transparency and alleged incidents, and sought clearer reporting and follow-up; the sheriff’s representative denied a social-media claim of a dead body and pointed listeners to the online incident map.
A series of public commenters at the March 25 council meeting pressed Mission Viejo’s elected officials to take public positions and follow up on several community concerns.
Peggy O’Neil and other speakers called on the council to condemn the use of a racial slur by a school board trustee (Capo board). O’Neil said the trustee’s language “was completely unnecessary and a serious lack…
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