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Heated public comment on alleged threatening letter; council members defend investigation and urge community healing
Summary
Multiple public commenters questioned the city’s handling of a recent threatening-letter matter; some accused community leaders of downplaying racist threats, while several council members defended the city’s investigative steps and urged moving past the episode after the report and prosecutorial findings.
Several members of the public used the March 24 public-comment period to press the council over a high-profile threatening-letter investigation involving a former planning commission chair.
Penny Thorpe asked the council to show civic leadership on diversity and inclusion. Tim Melama and others accused community actors of amplifying false claims and of political motivation; Melama said the episode had been “perverted and co-opted” and charged that some accusations amounted to organized attempts to influence…
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