The way of the Dojo IN BUSINESS | P.10 MARCH 5, 2010 VOLUME 18, NO. 9 INSIDE: WEEKEND | PAGE 13 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com Broken arm leads to $1M suit against city WOMAN FILES CLAIM AFTER BEING INJURED DURING ARREST FOR ALLEGED CRACK COCAINE USE By Daniel DeBolt 15, when officers were placing 47-year-old Jody Lynn Haar, of he City Council and city Marina, under arrest for alleg- officials have decided to edly being under the influence Treject a $1 million claim of cocaine and possessing a crack against the city brought by a pipe. She was apprehended while woman whose arm was shattered riding in a car that was stopped while she was being arrested by by police on El Camino Real. Mountain View police officers According to reports filed last fall. by the three officers involved, The injury occurred Sept. Haar, who is 5-foot-10 and 155 pounds, was sitting on a curb with her arms behind her back MV Whisman and was in the process of being handcuffed when she surprised kicks off 10 the officers by lunging forward JAMES TENSUAN to stand up, saying, “I didn’t do MUY DIVERTIDO: anything wrong.” budget forums As she moved, police agent Jose Clowns Guayabita (left) and Valerito inflate a balloon last weekend in front of Mi Pueblo, the Mexican Vieyra held Haar’s right arm in grocery store on Rengstorff Avenue. The two frequent the location, making balloon shapes for kids. NO PINK SLIPS PLANNED what he described as a “control FOR DISTRICT’S TEACHERS hold” — his left hand on Haar’s By Kelsey Mesher right hand and his right hand on Haar’s right elbow. Officers Brain drain takes toll on Valley wrote that she was losing her espite tough fiscal deci- balance while Vieyra kept her in sions ahead, the Moun- the control hold to keep her from REGION’S HIGH-TECH TALENT RETURNING IN DROVES TO INDIA, CHINA Dtain View Whisman falling forward, and that’s about School District will not be hand- when her upper right arm broke ing out pink slips come March in several places. Officers said By Kelsey Mesher These days, he said, Indian ing place in India, and that requires 15, the state deadline for notify- they believed she was trying to companies are on the lookout for a different type of engineer. So that’s ing employees of layoffs. “break free” to avoid arrest. mart, talented immigrants “Silicon Valley DNA,” which helps the market I’m addressing.” In the first of a series of bud- On Tuesday, the City Council have shaped the entrepre- give them a “global perspective to For example, Perkins is currently get forums Tuesday afternoon, met in closed session to discuss Sneurial spirit and vitality of move beyond the India-centric looking to fill a vice president of district chief financial officer the case, and city attorney Jan- Silicon Valley for decades. But marketplace.” engineering position at a company Craig Goldman told the site nie Quinn announced that they lately, with economies in Mumbai: “They want council at Huff Elementary that had decided to reject the claim. growing in China, India the candidate to come the district plans to cut 11 staff The city’s position, said Quinn and elsewhere while the from here because they positions in elementary schools, in a phone interview, is that “The local tech scene remains “There’s nothing good about need, as they put it, a real but that he is “highly confident” force used was reasonably neces- stagnant, skilled immi- game changer,” he said. probationary and tenured teach- sary because the claimant tried grants are returning to this for Silicon Valley.” The trend bothers some ers will keep their jobs this year. their home countries in industry watchers, who say to resist arrest.” VIVEK WADHWA The classroom reductions are Haar’s attorney, William B. search of better opportu- an exodus of highly quali- one part of working out next Look, said the officers used nities. fied individuals could have year’s budget amidst signifi- excessive force and were negli- And recruiters like Jack serious implications for the cant cuts from Sacramento. gent. Perkins, of Mountain View, are In the past, India was “really big economic health of Silicon Valley. Due to a combination of In the claim filed against the helping them get there. on the services side, and back-office “We have a lot to worry about,” categorical and unrestricted city, Look called “not credible” “The word is that India is boom- type of work and IT implementa- said Vivek Wadhwa, a researcher operational funding cuts, Gold- the police report describing ing, and there are more product tion and quality and testing,” he at Duke University and currently a man said, the district will be development opportunities there,” said. “But now there’s a critical mass visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. said Perkins, a principal at local of new product development for See MV WHISMAN, page 8 See LAWSUIT, page 7 boutique search firm Oryx. global (technology) products, tak- See BRAIN DRAIN, page 10 INSIDE GOINGS ON 17 | MARKETPLACE 18 | MOVIES 16 | REAL ESTATE 20 | VIEWPOINT 12 apr.com Go to open.apr.com for the Bay Area’s only complete online open home guide. 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