According to the El Paso Times, our west-side district representative “is under investigation on suspicion of threatening a city employee”.
It seems that a department of transportation employee told the district representative that city employees would trim her tree that was blocking a stop sign.
The department of transportation employee says that the district representative threatened him. I don’t know what she did or did not say or do but I doubt that she could effectively threaten the man physically. More probably this will come down to one of those “do you know who I am” situations.
Not standard
Once again our city staff has made themselves special (at least in their own minds). The Times article said:
City Manager Joyce Wilson said all council members have to go through standard investigative procedures when allegations are raised against them.
“They are treated the same as any other citizen. An investigation takes place and the outcome is referred to the District Attorney,” she said in an email.
The case has been handed over to the Special Investigation Group, a police unit formed to investigate allegations made against public officials.
A normal private citizen (a crazy) would probably have been arrested on the spot. Any investigation would have been handled by regular detectives.
In this case the issue has been handed over to a group that handles the delicate matter of working with our privileged public officials.
If the city employee was in fact threatened, then I applaud his courage. I know who he is — he is a citizen.
We deserve better
Brutus
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