4 Dead in NY Home Carbon Monoxide Eyed, Car Running in Garage
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SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2015 INTERNATIONAL 10 deputies on leave after California horse chase beating SAN BERNARDINO: Ten sheriff’s deputies in announced Friday it was starting a civil self and his family right now,” Terrell said. Southern California have been put on leave rights investigation. The beating is the latest in a string of after several of them were shown on video “I’m asking for some patience while we recent videotaped incidents involving police kicking and punching a man following a complete a thorough and fair investigation,” officers using extreme force on suspects, 21/2-hour chase involving a stolen horse. San McMahon said. “I am disturbed and troubled including the shooting death of an unarmed Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon by what I see in the video. It does not appear man as he ran from a police officer last said Friday that the video “disturbed and trou- to be in line with our policies and proce- weekend in North Charleston, South bled” him and appeared to show an excessive dures. “I assure you, if there is criminal doing Carolina. Ken Cooper, a New York-based use use of force. McMahon announced the action on the part of any of our deputy sheriffs or of force expert who trains police, said it after 30-year-old Francis Pusok was arrested any policy violations, we will take action.” appears the San Bernardino deputies Thursday by deputies in a violent encounter McMahon said the department received allowed their emotions and adrenaline to filmed by a KNBC-TV helicopter multiple threats after the video was aired. He get the best of them. “When chasing a flee- (http://bit.ly/1H8UC3D). Pusok fled by car and said names of the deputies, including a ser- ing suspect, in high stress, you have to con- then on the horse, traveling several miles geant and a detective, won’t be released trol that,” he said. “The justification for using while deputies chased him on foot after try- until the threats are checked out. The force is to gain compliance from the suspect, ing to serve a search warrant in an identity- deputies were place on paid administrative and the suspect seems to be complying. So theft investigation. leave. what this looks like is those blows are not The video shows Pusok, dressed in bright Attorneys for Pusok told KNBC-TV Friday justified, they’re not necessary and they’re red clothing, falling from the horse as a as they left the jail that their client has a bad- not professional.” Cooper said the officers deputy ran up and fired a Taser. McMahon ly swollen eye, marks from the beating over should be disciplined, retrained to deal with said the Taser was believed to be ineffective his face and body, and is in pain. “He remem- stress, and the video should be used for because of Pusok’s loose clothing. As pursu- bers being beat, and he remembers that he training. CALIFORNIA: Law enforcement personnel search for a suspect who stole ing deputies reached him, Pusok was face wasn’t resisting, that he laid still, he com- Pusok has a slew of vehicle code viola- a horse and fled into the mountains. A Southern California sheriff has down with his arms and legs outstretched plied immediately. He says that he didn’t tions and pleaded no contest to several ordered an immediate investigation after deputies were recorded beat- and hands behind his back. One deputy even move a muscle because he didn’t want criminal charges, including multiple ing and kicking a man who fled in a car and on horseback. —AP kicked him in the head or shoulder area and to be continuously beat, yet it still hap- instances of resisting arrest, attempted rob- punched him, and another kicked him in the pened,” attorney Sharon Brunner said. After bery, animal cruelty and fighting or offensive home where Pusok allegedly made threats McMahon said. Pusok is being held on suspi- crotch. Other deputies arrived moments lat- the beating, a deputy whispered in his ear: words, according to San Bernardino County to kill a deputy and fatally shot a family pup- cion of felony evading, theft of a horse and er. McMahon said internal and criminal “This isn’t over,’” attorney Jim Terrell said. Superior Court records. McMahon said py in front of his family members. “We were possession of stolen property. Taxin report- investigations are under way. The FBI “And that’s why he’s scared to death for him- deputies had previously been called to a very familiar with his aggressive nature,” ed from San Bernardino. —AP 4 dead in NY home Carbon monoxide eyed, car running in garage NEW YORK: Four elderly people member Kathy Fetzer said. Jerry gas, is created when some fuels are City Councilman Mark Weprin, were found dead in a home Friday in Hugel moved from Germany to the burned. The deaths come on the who represents the area including an apparent carbon monoxide poi- US in his youth, and Marie Hugel was heels of other carbon monoxide Floral Park, said he hopes the soning after a car was left running in of Austrian descent, she said. They exposures that killed at least 10 peo- tragedy sheds light on the impor- an attached garage, police said. The were always ready to take on any- ple on the Eastern Seaboard. A man tance of having and maintaining car- victims were 83-year-old Jerry Hugel, thing that needed doing for the and his seven children were found bon monoxide detectors. “My his wife, 80-year-old Marie Hugel, organization and had passed the tra- dead Monday in Princess Anne, thoughts and prayers go out to the and 70-year-old Gloria Greco, police ditions on to their children, she said. Maryland, where they apparently friends and families of the victims,” said. The identity of the fourth per- “They just held everything together were poisoned in their sleep while he said in an emailed statement. A son, a 76-year-old man, will be and made sure it was done right,” she running a generator after a utility cut friend of the Hugels, Elisabeth released after his family is notified, said. power to their home. And a woman Hlawaty, said she traveled across the officials said. The bodies were dis- The husband was found next to and her 7-year-old daughter were country with the couple to dance covered when a relative of the the running car in the garage, and found poisoned Wednesday in their competitions. She said Marie Hugel Hugels went to check on them the wife was in a kitchen in the base- home in East Orange, New Jersey, had used a typewriter to help her Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because they hadn’t answered the ment. The family friend was in a liv- where prosecutors said a utility com- children write their college papers. phone at their Queens home. Jerry ing room on the first floor, and the pany had shut off power and a gas “She was very involved, very family Hugel was found next to a running tenant was on the first floor. Carbon generator was being used without conscious,” Hlawaty said. “She loved Be yourself: A not-so-simple car in the garage. monoxide, an odorless and colorless proper ventilation. all of her children.”—AP Neighbors lined the streets and goal for Clinton, hopefuls sidewalks in the suburban Floral Park neighborhood next to Long Island’s WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama had something,” he said. The challenge for candidates Nassau County. Some cried as police some simple advice for Hillary Rodham Clinton in is to find a way to sync their personalities, whatev- officers and firefighters walked the days before the launch of her presidential er they may be, with their political pitch in a com- around the Cape Cod-style, two-sto- campaign. “If she’s her wonderful self, I’m sure she’s plementary way. And they have to do it in a con- ry home. “They were wonderful peo- going to do great,” he said. That sounds easy fessional culture that demands familiarity and inti- ple,” Helga Harter, a neighbor who enough. But plenty of politicians - Clinton among macy from public figures like never before. had known the couple for decades, them - have found it a tricky proposition to just be Steve Schmidt, who worked on the Republican said through tears as she stood on a themselves in the maelstrom that is a presidential presidential campaigns of John McCain and street corner, looking at the home. campaign. Clinton spent a good share of her 2008 George W Bush, says it all started with the infa- “They were married for 60 years.” The primary campaign trying to find the right formula mous “boxers or briefs” question posed to Bill Hugels had five children, including a for revealing her true self, projecting first strength, Clinton in the 1992 campaign, and “all we’ve done son who’s a New York Police then empathy. is pick up speed since then.” In addition, the con- Department officer, Harter said. The Four years later, a buttoned-up Republican Mitt structs of modern campaigning can make it hard president of the NYPD Sergeants Romney, described by friends as warm and gener- for candidates to be themselves in “an abnormal Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, ous, never shook the stereotype of callous rich process” that makes ordinary interactions with said members’ thoughts and prayers guy. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, cast as a stiff, people difficult, says Chris Lehane, a Democratic were with the family.