More than an hour of public comments, including police and first responders as counter opinions to an equal amount of supportive voices for Valparaiso City Council President Robert Cotton, guided d…
Valparaiso City Councilman Jack Pulillo, R-4th, reads a statement on behalf of the council in support of police and first responders at the council’s meeting on Monday, May 13, 202, in response to police and first responders’ criticism of Council President Robert Cotton, left.
“I’d like to express my regret that the comment was not written well enough to avoid gross misinterpretation of an indelible image conjured in my mind directly from an eyewitness statement reported in a local newspaper,” Cotton said has said after theas president. “In no way did I intend for this to be taken as criticism of our professional and highly skilled police, and my record of support is well documented.
“For what you said on Facebook, I could understand a stance of that, to a degree,” Carmichael said from the podium, directing her remarks to Cotton. “Based on the preliminary findings of the Indiana State Police, we understand the following: Officers from both the Porter County Sheriff’s Department and Valparaiso Police Department responded to Fairgrounds Park to investigate a report of an individual displaying a handgun,” Pupillo said in his prepared statement.
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