2007-02-16 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawai'i County Police Commission Regular Session Minutes February 16, 2007 Page 4 STATEMENTS ON COMPLAINTS (open to the public) IVY KUGHA (Complaint HPC 06 -27) stated that her husband got into an argument with their neighbor. Officer Reis kept telling her husband to shut up. She told the officer it wouldn't help to talk to them like that, and he told her to shut up. They didn't deserve having the officer speak to them like that. There were no other officers around when he kept telling them to shut up. The officer kept mouthing off. Her husband went upstairs, and officers told him to come out. They broke into her home to get to her husband. Since the incident, they have gone through mediation with their neighbor. DYRESON KUGHA (Complaint HPC 06 -27) stated that during the incident, he explained to the cops that his neighbor pushed him and provoked him. Things got out of hand. He was upset because Officer Reis told him to shut up when he expressed his own opinion in his own home. He went upstairs and locked the door. Cops told him to come down. He jumped out the window. Then he thought why he was doing that, so he went over to the cops. They took him down and they told him he was being arrested for disorderly conduct. While at the police station, he asked for medical assistance for cuts on his arm. They told him he could have Band -Aid, and he refused. Officer Aaron Carvalho sent the other officer out of the room. Officer Carvalho told him, "You want to do anything ?" Officer Carvalho swore at him while at the cellblock. He injured his arm when the officers grabbed him and threw him on the ground. The scarring came from their fingernails. He wants to be reimbursed for the door the police broke. WILLIAM ENOS (Complaint HPC 06 -29) stated that he had an argument with his girlfriend. She came home so drunk that she could hardly walk. She fell down and hurt herself. She said he broke the door down. He had the key and didn't have to break the door. The door was not damaged. She said he punched her and broke her tooth. She broke her tooth in a previous accident. She called 9 -1 -1 and told them he had a gun. Officers came, and he told them there was no gun. Officers falsely arrested him. He made the 9-1 -1 - call. EXECUTIVE SESSION (closed to the public) Commissioner Robinson moved and Commissioner Lundkvist seconded to meet in executive session to consider discipline and charges against officers or employees of the Hawaii County Police Department where consideration of matters affecting privacy would be involved and a closed session is requested and to consult with Corporation Counsel on questions and issues that pertain to the commission's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities pursuant to HRS 92 -5 (2) and