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Video of a police chase that left a Georgia teenager paralyzed — the "scariest chase I've seen since 'The French Connection,"' one Supreme Court justice said — played a key role Monday in arguments over the actions of a sheriff's deputy.
A camera in the dashboard of the police cruiser that rammed Victor Harris's black Cadillac captured the sickening moment when Harris lost control and veered off the road and down an embankment.
Harris sued former Coweta County Sheriff's deputy Timothy Scott, accusing the deputy of violating his civil rights. The court is deciding whethe... Read more
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10 November 2005
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OAK HILL -- A state ethics complaint is the latest volley in ongoing tensions between Police Chief Walter Zalisko and City Commissioner Charlie Dean.
The document, filed last month, came to light Wednesday.
In the five-page letter and a one-page amendment, Zalisko outlines 11 allegations against the commissioner including violations of the city charter and the state's Government in the Sunshine law.
"Elected officials are expected to act honorably and within the law," he said Wednesday. "If their conduct is beyond those perimeters, they will have to pay the consequences."
Zalisko said removing Dean from office may be the only recourse.
Dean, who took office in January, called the accusations "mudslinging" and retaliation by Zalisko.
"He has called me a renegade commissioner," Dean said. "In the charges the only way he sees that this can be solved is removing me from the commission."
Dean said Zalisko is "grabbing at straws" because the commissioner has not blindly gone along with many of the chief's decisions.
"I am not a rubber-stamp guy," he said. "I listen to the citizens and question things when they bring them to me."
However, both men agree matters came to a head Oct. 11 when they had heated words in the chief's office. The pair accuse each other of becoming irate during a discussion about parking enforcement in front of Dean's U.S. 1 business and the promotion of Sgt. Roy Shaffer to lieutenant.
Dean acknowledges he told Zalisko that he should be removed from office, which the chief said he took as a threat.
Zalisko's allegations date back to February and include accusations of Dean trying to influence city personnel on behalf of family members and that he sought uneven enforcement of traffic laws in front of his business.
The chief also implied Dean tried to use his wife as a "conduit" in soliciting Commissioner Mike Thompson's support for Zalisko's ouster.
Helen Jones, spokeswoman for the Florida Commission on Ethics in Tallahassee, said the agency will review the allegations and if they have merit, an investigator will be assigned the case.
Zalisko, who was hired in June 2004, said in addition to the ethics board, he submitted the same accusations to the State Attorney's Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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