XPost: ba.politics, dc.media, soc.penpals   
   XPost: alt.burningman   
   From: narcissist@barackobama.com   
      
   Officials of the California Highway Patrol and the Chula Vista   
   Fire Department moved Wednesday to smooth over "an unfortunate   
   incident" in which a CHP officer handcuffed a firefighter at a   
   freeway accident Tuesday night.   
      
   The officer had ordered the firefighter to move a fire truck   
   because he felt it was unsafely blocking a lane of traffic at   
   the scene of a collision on Interstate 805.   
      
   The firefighter refused, saying he needed to confer with his   
   captain. The CHP officer handcuffed the firefighter and put him   
   in the back of a patrol car, where he remained for about 30   
   minutes. No arrest was made.   
      
   The incident was caught on film and shown on local television.   
      
   On Wednesday, fire Chief Dave Hanneman and CHP Chief Jim Abele   
   met to discuss the incident. After the meeting, neither side   
   admitted fault but the two issued a joint statement expressing   
   "utmost respect for each other and our respective missions. This   
   was an isolated incident...."   
      
   The two said the incident "will be a topic of future joint   
   training sessions, in an ongoing effort to work more efficiently   
   together."   
      
   The fire truck had arrived at the scene of the accident before   
   the CHP. The driver, a 12-year veteran of the fire department,   
   parked behind an ambulance that was loading patients for   
   transport to a hospital. The CHP officer felt the truck was   
   causing a road hazard.   
      
   Before the joint statement was issued, the Chula Vista fire   
   chief issued an individual statement saying, "I am very proud of   
   how Engineer Jacob Gregoire and the other firefighters on the   
   scene handled the situation."   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chp-chula-vista-   
   20140205,0,5986838.story#axzz2sVXNL0sN   
      
   It will be a shame when that black CHP jerk's house burns down.   
      
   And firefighters show up too late.   
      
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)