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OUTDATED AND INADEQUATE POLICE TRAINING, HERE IN UTAH AND NATIONALLY, FOCUSES TOO MUCH ON FORCE.

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UNDER THE GUN Outdated and inadequate police training, here in Utah and nationally, focuses too much on force.

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SOAP BOX foreign wars, minimum wage increase ... anything?

All he talks about is how bad Trump is. @KRISTINMC6 via Instagram

“Joe Redburn Days” Private Eye Oct. 8 column “Tomorrow Will Be Better” Oct. 15 cover story

Absolutely riveting article.

Nicely done, Ben Raskin. Glad you made it through. @TIMHARAN via Instagram

“Owens vs. Owens” Private Eye Oct. 15 column

Reminds me of Biden running on “Trump bad, I’m better.”

Where is the policy? Medicare for all, legalization of marijuana, Green New Deal, fracking ban, jobs program, an end to

I knew Joe Redburn during my early days in Salt Lake.

Went to The Sun a number of times—invited by Joe and loved it. Yes, Joe was a gay activist (I think he would laugh at that—but he was pretty happy); he was also a veteran and a member of the Utah Veterans for Peace.

We held meetings at The Sun during off hours, and he was a great supporter and member. I was often on his radio show debating war issues. He brought people from a different “camp” than mine, and we talked

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and took calls. I became friends with a few of them.

I also spent some very enjoyable times at his home when he lived on 500 East just a bit north of Harvey Milk Boulevard. I drive Harvey Milk most days to take the dog for his walk and think of a humanrights activist who was gay— now I will think of two.

Alone and homeless—not the first veteran to die that way, but what a loss—he had a spirit that made all things seem possible.

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Not the End of the World

The world is not going to end if Amy Coney Barrett (ACB) becomes a Supreme Court justice, and attacking her only helps President Trump.

Let’s be honest, there is nothing in the Democrats’ arsenal

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that can stop Republicans from bulldozing ACB to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vacancy. The only hope the anti-ACB crowd had was Sen. Mitt Romney’s vote against confirmation.

Now, with Romney onboard, attacks on ACB’s Catholicism are a trap for Joe Biden. In swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Biden is ahead of Trump. Each also has a high percentage of Catholic voters. Biden needs those votes to win the Electoral College map.

The truth is Roe v Wade is not going to be overturned by ACB, or anyone else, for that matter. Notre Dame’s student publication, The Observer, quoted ACB as saying (in 2013) “I think it is very unlikely at this point that the court is going to overturn Roe as curbed by [Planned Parenthood v.]

Casey. The fundamental element, that the woman has a right to choose abortion, will probably stand.”

Let’s not try to win the battle only to lose the war.

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THE BOX

Who would you like to write in for president?

Mikey Saltas James Marshall, aka Harrison Ford, from Air Force One. Sofia Cifuentes Me! Kelly Boyce President: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Vice president: Hasan Minhaj or Bill Nye Terri Anderson Justin Timberlake Patty Pecora Oprah Winfrey Tom Metos Bill Gates Paula Saltas Michelle Obama Derek Carlisle P: Bill Burr, VP: Patton Oswalt Jerre Wroble No more celebrities or has-beens, please! Only smart, energized leaders with a soul get my write in. Any one out there?

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prove the gene pool and thus married a Greek immigrant from Crete. I loved my grandmother like no other. She was of true-blue Mormon pioneer stock, from the battalion to handcarts to settler. She was born in 1899 in a log cabin that still stands in Dry Fork, Utah. She died when I was 26 years old and, for that entire time, she lived just yards from our home, so I came to know the Relief Society sisters quite well.

Those women all knew my grandfather would find that time to grab a glass of wine and walk off. They were married 63 years, each respectful of the other’s faith and practices.

It didn’t hurt that my grandmother liked to sneak a pinch of bourbon here and there. Meanwhile, my grandfather never lit a cigarette in front of the Relief Society ladies. He also did not swear, in Greek or English, around them. My grandparents’ bind was their morning coffee—my grandmother, a rural Utah Mormon woman, was not shy about her coffee, because, after all, it gets very cold in Dry Fork, and that’s just the way the day begins in rural Utah.

So, that was my growing up—my own little world of religious and ethnic teeter-totter. In all that time, it was the rare Latter-day Saint who asked me about the Greek Orthodox faith or didn’t try to impose their own. To those rare ones—I’ll never forget your kind friendships, and you’re always in the highest regard. Yes, you, Steven, Sy, Sandra, Kent, Scott, Russ and others. The best of people, the best of humans.

But too many others couldn’t resist—let me call them the do-gooder, Mike Lee and Chris Stewart types. No moral compass, just authority and fear running their clock.

They’d always begin a digging query line with “Do you believe in Joseph Smith?” Uhhh, I don’t know. “Well, then, you’re not going to the Celestial Kingdom.” The what? “The Celestial Kingdom, with the rest of your family.” Huh? I go to church every Sunday. “It’s not the true church. Your

church isn’t real.” After you go through a few of those interrogations, you give up. They don’t really end, though, for if Mormons like Lee and Stewart are good at one single thing, it’s their belief that they are right in all things, even if they are wrong, because they cannot be wrong when what they believe is true. Get it?

I was taken aback this week when an old school friend, during a discussion about Biden and Trump, suddenly tossed a curve ball I hadn’t heard in over 40 years: “Do you believe in Christ?” Huh? That’s personal. Anyway, when did you start talking about Christ? “Trump is redeemed, and Biden will take this country to socialism hell.” Biden lives more like Jesus than Trump ever will. “Hunter Biden is a crook.” Trump’s kids are worse. “The media lies about them.” What has Trump ever done for you? “He stopped COVID. Biden is a fraud.” That was it. Code alert. I’ve been on this road before. Biden is not a fraud, he’s a Catholic.

There’s a move afoot to drive open-minded Mormons to come to their senses and vote for Biden—a man who does not lie regularly, who loves his children so much he has pictures taken with them, whose wife wants to hold his hand, and who is not accused of bedding porn stars, snorting Adderall, hanging out with pervs, defrauding a cancer charity, thievery of all kinds, coddling America’s enemies while enriching himself and so on. Some people believe undecided Mormon Republicans will recognize Trump as a criminal sinner and will vote for the decent soul, Joe Biden.

Good luck with that. But if they do, pass the sauce to those pious Greeks fawning for Trump. They’ve lost their baklava-loving minds. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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rowing up a non-Mormon in Utah has its ups and downs. One day, you’re one of the convivial gang, everyone getting along—say, feeling the euphoria of a winning score during a football team, for instance. The next, you’re as lonely as the last Sumatran rhino because all your teammates begin leaving on their missions, and slowly but surely, distance themselves from people like me. I never understood that. It wasn’t me who knocked up their high school sweethearts. I wasn’t even there. I swear.

I remember another variant of the “I would be a good boy if not for my friends” salvation solution. One of my buddies invited his “friends” to his mission farewell, then proceeded to blame us for his wayward diversions. I’ll leave it at that except to add that it was he who was the drug dealer, and none of us sitting there partook of the powdery drug he sold. I hear he made a great success of his life. Congrats.

That some of my old friends are now slobbering greatgrandparents is of no consequence and doesn’t soften the angst I still feel about some of them. Not only didn’t I knock up their girlfriends, I didn’t supply the booze or light their cigarettes, either. I was just the easy target—a nonMormon Greek Orthodox kid. They didn’t know or care about Greek (or, more correctly, Eastern) Orthodoxy. In their world, there was no other religion, anyway. They just saw me as something exotic. I was the Greek version of the black-haired members of the Sharks from West Side Story.

Meanwhile, I always held silent to the great little secret of my youth—that my great-great-grandfather was a member of the Mormon Battalion, and whose granddaughter, my grandmother, had, as I like to say, the wisdom to im-

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Amendment Misfire

This is the year the Legislature is determined to pull a fast one on the public. Just look at the seven constitutional amendments they want you to pass.

The operative word is “constitution,” because once enshrined, well, it’s enshrined. There’s been much said about Amendment G—because who could be against supporting people with disabilities and children? But read between the lines, and you’ll see there’s no guarantee, and funding for public education is being held hostage. Amendment E basically makes hunting and fishing a constitutional right. “Nobody is threatening our right to hunt and fish,” the opposition says. And yet there’s the perception that animal-rights groups, environmentalists and “tree huggers” are working overtime. Amazingly, 21 states have placed that “right” in their constitutions, most since 1996. The Humane Society has it right. “The Constitution should guarantee fundamental democratic rights, not provide protection for a recreational pastime.”

MISS: Trolling Polls

It’s the pandemic, so it’s not unusual to imagine people alone in their basements on their computers. Eric Peterson, a former CW reporter who now heads up The Utah Investigative Journalism Project, is not only unusual, he’s dogged in his determination to expose the “dirty dialing” in politics. This time, in a story for The Salt Lake Tribune, he outed former House Speaker and failed gubernatorial candidate Greg Hughes for a questionable method of determining whether dirt works. If you dig into this article, you’ll discover the hairline difference between push polls (to change your mind) and just information on whether sleazy tactics work in a campaign. The irony of all this was that Hughes got a law passed to require pollsters to disclose their clients’ identities. That didn’t happen here. The real revelation, though, was that Hughes tried to frame Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox as a tool of the radical left. Sound familiar?

That’s what the ads are saying about U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams.

HIT: Not So Delightsom

Maybe you’ve been under the impression that Utah is a state of bliss and harmony.

Along comes U.S. Attorney John Huber with some news to shatter that bubble.

Federal prosecutors charged 21 “Utahbased white supremacists” on drug and firearms activities, according to NPR. Just to be clear, these are dangerous, racist right-wing extremists—and yes, they’re all men. You have to love the cute names they came up with, too: Soldiers of Aryan Culture, Silent Aryan Warriors, Noble Elect Thugs. In 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center identified five statewide hate groups in Utah—none of them the ones just charged. But you may as well know, since the president recently hailed them, that the Proud Boys work in Utah, too, apparently to Make America White Again.

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Learn About the Port

As the resistance to the Inland Port continues to grow, now’s the time for an update on what is still planned and what you can do. Deeda Seed of the Center for Biological Diversity will present at the University of Utah’s Lunch & Learn—Utah’s Inland Port, a development being powered forward by business interests that have little concern for the environmental impacts. The port will cover property in Salt Lake City, Magna and West Valley City, threatening wildlife habitats as well as the air and water of the valley itself. For the “other side” of the debate, join the Lunch & Learn on Wednesday, Nov. 4, when executive director Jack Hedge will defend the port. Virtual, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 12-1 p.m., free. https://continue.utah.edu/osher/lectures

Waste Food Much?

With families struggling to buy food, every Utahn should be mindful of what they’re wasting at home. Utahns Against Hunger reports that the state has more than doubled its food insecurity rate since the pandemic began in February, and food prices continue to rise. And yet, consumers waste somewhere between 30 percent and 40 percent of the nation’s food supply each year. That’s about 1.3 billion tons of food. Morgan Bowerman became interested in waste management during her time in Sub-Saharan Africa where she founded Recycling for Hope—the first recycling initiative in Northern Uganda. She is now focused on finding a solution for food waste in Utah as the sustainability manager for Wasatch Resource Recovery.

Join the UR A Trash Talk Series: Preventing Food Waste at Home to find out how you can help. Virtual, Thursday, Oct. 22, 7-8 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3nMbE1H

Connect Through Climbing

What does climbing have to do with business or your own connection with nature? Environmentalist Nathaniel Coleman sees it as an opportunity for people to find a deeper connection with nature and to become stewards of the outdoors. “As environmental threats and hardships add pressure to these areas, Nathaniel is driven to action. He will also discuss how he has witnessed the climbing community step up to save businesses vital to these communities,” organizers say. At Climbing & Caring for Wild Places, Coleman will talk about his experiences in Mallorca, Spain and Rocklands, South Africa, as well as Utah’s own Little Cottonwood Canyon. Virtual, Thursday, Oct. 22, 12-12:40 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/340PFMy

Slavery’s a Thing

If you’ve read your ballot, you know that among the seven constitutional amendments, one—Amendment C—asks whether you think eliminating slavery from the Constitution is a good thing. Say what? At Amendment C: What Does It Mean to Abolish Slavery from Utah’s Constitution in 2020?, you’ll hear from Rep. Sandra Hollins, D- Salt Lake, the only Black woman in the Legislature, about how she persuaded lawmakers to unanimously approve putting the question on the ballot. What does our Constitution say? “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within this state.” A punishment for crime?

Learn more: Virtual, Monday, Oct. 26, 12-1 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3k4K7Gx

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to somebody else when you walk into a spider web and begin flailing around madly to get it off of you, and the pantomime of that event is what fully sells the moment.

This week, Regan plays Tuacahn Amphitheater (1100 Tuacahn Dr., Ivins, tuacahn.org) Oct. 23-24 for a pair of outdoor performances scheduled to be recorded for his latest Neflix special. It’ll be interesting to see what the consummate “normal guy” comedian has to say about these “new normal” times.

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Music might have returned to Abravanel Hall, but it has returned in a very different way.

Because of protocols to protect the safety of the musicians, fewer musicians are appearing on stage at any given time— which means thinking differently about the kind of pieces that can be included on a program.

While the string musicians can work together on a piece, including the brass means looking for pieces that allow them to be on the stage with only percussionists, so social distancing can be preserved.

The third Masterworks program of Utah Symphony’s unusual new season—running Oct. 22-24—takes these needs into account with a program split between works for strings and works for brass, under the baton of guest conductor David Robertson.

In the former category, the showcase work is Dvořák’s (pictured) Serenade for Strings, written in his extremely productive year of 1875.

Preceding this piece will be “Lyric for Strings,” a 1996 by George Walker, the first Black composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.

calveras—artistic representations of the human skull—where each color choice brings out a different nuance in an image associated with death.

Making New Arrangements runs through Nov. 7, with regular gallery hours MondaySaturday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. COVID-19 protocols are observed, and scheduled visits are welcome; the entire exhibition is also available for view online at the “A” Gallery website.

Additional work by the artist can be found at thornockstudios.com. (SR)

Utah Humanities Book Festival closing events

As the program shifts to brass, the most familiar piece on the program is Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” written in 1942 as part of a series of patriotic commissions as the United States entered World War II. Joan Tower’s 1986 “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman,” which leads off this section, may be less well-known, but marks the most recent piece for brass and percussion that ranges back to the 1500s for Giovani Gabrieli’s “Sonata pian’ e forte.” Visit utahsymphony.org for ticketing details. (SR)

Like most other largescale events this year, the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival had to re-imagine its presentations in 2020.

Yet they were still able to bring more than a dozen different events to lovers of writing via virtual author events, featuring local and national writers in every possible form.

This week, the monthlong Book Festival draws to a close with two options scheduled for the evening of Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. For the first, poets Paula Jane Mendoza and Matty Layne Glasgow read from their respective work.

University of Utah faculty member Mendoza presents works described by Utah poet laureate Paisley Rekdal as cataloguing “how bodies become objects of consumption, voyeurism and desire, and [using] the imagery and politics of climate change to describe the immigrant and female body.” Glasgow (pictured)—a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah, where he serves as the Managing Editor of Quarterly West and the Wasatch

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To a layperson, still life can seem like one of the most rudimentary of artistic forms. After all, a bowl of fruit or a vase full of flowers can seem to lack the personality of a portrait, the majesty of a landscape, or the mystery of abstraction. Yet there’s an exploration of structure, composition and discipline in such images— the kind of artistic rules you need to know, as the old saying goes, before you can break them.

Artist Christopher Thornock— an MFA graduate of Brigham Young University and a professor of art at Utah Valley University— has built a vibrant career as an illustrator for book covers, weekly newspapers and more, ranging from fantasy images to celebrity portraits. Yet his fine-art work explores more rigorous territory, with variations on themes that bring each choice into focus. His new solo exhibition Making New Arrangements at “A” Gallery (1321 S. 2100 East, agalleryonline.com) features a variety of still life images that bring bold colors and simple objects together (“Arrangement in Orange and Black” is pictured). The exhibition also includes Thornock’s series of

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It’s hard to think of the perpetually boyish Brian Regan as a man in his 60s, but that’s one of the things that can happen when you don’t become an overnight sensation until middle-age.

After laboring at standup comedy for more than 15 years, Regan released his first comedy CD, Brian Regan Live, in 1997, when he was 39 years old. His first one-hour comedy special, Standing Up, debuted on Comedy Central in summer 2007, just a few days after his 49th birthday.

If you’ve ever thought it was too late for you to find fame and fortune doing what you love to do—and are really good at—here’s evidence to the contrary.

One of the reasons Reagan’s stage persona makes it hard for him to think of him as an old man is that he’s so … well, goofy. His act has always made his own simple, Everyman identity an object of his humor, which has often meant taking on silly voices or even sillier walks to bolster his jokes. One of his classic bits involved what it must look like

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Writers in the Schools Coordinator—is the author of the award-winning 2019 collection deciduous qween, and has been published in poetry journals around the country.

Taking place at the same time, Brigham City Library hosts a publishers panel with a local Utah focus. Representatives of cutting-edge publishers including Torrey House Press, Sugar House Review and more discuss the business of getting books out into the world, both for those who create them and those who love to read them. Visit utahhumanities.org for additional information on how to join these Zoom events and celebrate local writing. (SR)

Tricks and Treats

A roundup of Halloweenthemed activities still taking place during this scary October.

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friendly) will play at the base. Visit sundanceresort.com for reservations.

Front Row Film Roast: Scream: The cut-ups of Front Row Film Roast apply their movie-skewering skills to the original 1996 Scream, which itself did some skewering of horror-movie tropes and clichés (along with skewering some of the characters on knives). Online admission is free, but registration is required to receive the link to the event, beginning at 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. Visit frontrowfilmroast. com to join in the screams of both laughter and thrills.

Salt Lake City Library Frankenstein’s Lab Online: Physical branches of the City Library are once again open, but there are still virtual programming for families, including this series of Halloween themes videos. Every Monday—up to and including Oct. 26—you can find crafts, experiments and other hands-on activities with a spooky sensibility. Check slcpl.org for the latest installments. CW

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ing the Halloween season into a place of spooky witch-themed events and activities; this year, the transformation has taken place in a slightly different way to keep things touch-free and safe. You can still interact with live witch characters, and take a scavenger hunt with a list you can print at home or find on your mobile device. Witches Night Out encourages costumes while shopping or dining. Make a reservation for the Cackling Cantina, or Witchapalooza Dinner Theater. Masks are required for all events, and parking is $5 for all vehicles.

Visit gardnervillage.com for additional event details and safety procedures.

Halloween Lift Rides at Sundance Resort: The Provo Canyon resort (8841 N. Alpine Loop Rd.) allows you to soar into the mountain night on a 45-to-60-minute lift ride evenings through Oct. 31. Hot chocolate and other treats are available at the base, where masks are required. Weather permitting, a complimentary Halloween movie (title TBD, but intended to be family-

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alloween time is a little bit different in 2020. We’ve all got plenty of real-life fears—political, economic, existential—occupying our brains. But there are still plenty of activities going on throughout Utah if you want to spend some time with controlled creepiness. Here’s just a sampling of seasonal activities that, in addition to being able to take your mind off of actual terrors, can help support some of our great local businesses.

Salt Lake Film Society Motor Cinema: Throughout the early fall, the Salt Lake Film Society—with theater venues still closed to the public—has supplemented its “virtual cinema” online offerings of new independent films with a slate of classics at a pop-up drive-in location (Redman Movies & Stories parking lot, 1075 S. 700 West).

The programming wraps up this weekend with the original 1978 version of Halloween and the 2018 Sundance horror tale Hereditary. Tickets must be purchased in advance, and concessions packages are also available for advance purchase; visit slfs. org/component/k2/1838 for full details.

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium “Haunted Aquarium”: No, you don’t have to

worry about the sharks, even if you’re standing beneath them as they swim overhead.

For the month of October, Loveland Living Planet Aquarium offers a variety of familyfriendly Halloween activities with safety guidelines always enforced. Patrons can enjoy a daily scavenger hunt that lets kids search for mysterious creatures like Bigfoot and the Kraken. With online reservation, select dates (Oct. 24-25, Oct. 30-31) can include trick-or-treating for wrapped candy through the decorated aquarium included with general admission. And for an after-hours treat (online reservation required), Oct. 24 features a “Frights Under Lights” night of music and entertainment for all ages. Visit thelivingplanet.org for full details.

Hogle Zoo “Boo Lights”: Outdoors at Hogle Zoo allows kids a safe experience with a little something extra. In addition to taking a walk through the Bat Cave and riding the train in the dark, visitors can see decorations including a graveyard, Land of Spiders and a Pirates’ Lair. The “wizarding world”-themed maze also allows an opportunity to meet a familiar character or two.

The activities take place on select nights through Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., with tickets $9.95-$12.95. Visit hoglezoo.org to make reservations.

Tracy Aviary Halloween Hoot: The swimming critters and the land critters aren’t about to get all of the seasonal fun, as Tracy Aviary makes sure that our flying friends can get in on the action. The Halloween party for kids includes take-andmake craft activities, treats and more, beginning 10 a.m. on Oct. 24, 25 and 31. And while costumes are not required, kids under 12 in costume will be admitted free on Halloween day. Purchase tickets online at tracyaviary.org, and check for mask requirements and other safety protocols.

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t isn’t just a few bad apples in police departments across the country who, on average, have killed 1,000 people each year. Rather, it is dedicated public servants whose training has failed them—and the country.

The United States lags woefully behind most other wealthy countries in police training, according to experts, leading to needless fatalities and undermining public trust in law enforcement.

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In western European countries, however, police cadets go through two to three years of training. It includes college-level courses in psychology, sociology, communications and other fields that train cadets to effectively deal with the people. The training there focuses on non-lethal outcomes.

Nationally, police in this country shoot and kill 3.42 people per million (about 1,000 per year). That’s 30 to 300 times more often than in western European countries.

What is never mentioned in media reports, however, is the trauma suffered by the officers involved. According to clinical psychologist Wayne R. Hill, the trauma is real, but officers do not always feel free to speak of their disturbing feelings. In the long run, that can lead to emotional isolation, depression and even suicide. Last year, 228 police officers in the U.S. killed themselves.

More expansive training is better for everyone involved, said Kirk Burkhalter, a former New York City detective who now teaches at New York Law School.

“This is not a zero-sum game,” he said.

Better training “can achieve what’s best

the officers involved did follow training protocols.

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 23, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back after he tussled with police and was not stopped by a taser. Blake survived but is paralyzed from the waist down. The video of the shooting is gruesome and caused a public firestorm. Did police have to shoot him?

They knew who he was and could have arrested him later. Nonetheless, the officers acted in accordance with their training.

On May 23, Salt Lake City police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal as he fled.

Unlike Brooks and Blake, PalaciosCarbajal had a handgun and had just attempted a felony armed robbery.

When police arrived, Palacios-Carbajal ran, dropped his gun, picked it up and continued to flee while police ordered him several times to stop and drop the weapon. Two officers then fired 34 bullets at him, by which he was hit with at least 13, and he died at the scene.

The event was captured on police body-cam video but was not released until June 5. The officers involved acted precisely as they were trained. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill determined the shooting was justified, in part because it was in the commission of a felony. Nonetheless, the ruling ignited protests in downtown Salt Lake City.

The Sept. 4 shooting of 13-year-old Linden Cameron, who suffers from autism and anxiety, is an example of police training that emphasizes force and immediacy. During a psychotic episode, Cameron, who had committed no crime, ran from his Salt Lake City home.

Officers gave chase, ordered him to stop and when he didn’t obey, they shot him multiple times. He survived but was seriously injured and faces a long recovery with injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines and bladder, according to a GoFundMe account set up to help with his medical expenses.

The average police training in this country is 17 weeks—4 months. There are no national standards, and training varies widely from state to state.

In Utah, law enforcement officers are trained at the state Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) academy for 16 weeks. Depending on the agency, they may receive more training. Salt Lake City operates its own POST-certified academy, where cadets get 22 weeks of training, followed by 16 weeks of on the job training with a veteran officer.

for all parties.”

The use of deadly force by police is front and center again in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But while Floyd died of asphyxiation from an officer’s knee on his neck, most of the 1,000 or so deaths each year attributed to police are the result of gunshots wounds.

Recent shootings in Atlanta, Georgia; Kenosha, Wisconsin; Salt Lake City and across the nation show a pattern emerging that leads to police shootings: Officers approach a suspect and give instruction. If the suspect does not respond properly, physical force is applied; if that’s unsuccessful, a taser is deployed; and if that doesn’t render the suspect compliant, then police use a gun.

It’s called the “use-of-force continuum” and, at each stage, the officer has discretion if additional force is required to make the suspect compliant.

However, over and over again, the public has seen police move to the ultimate force—deadly force—within seconds.

Shortly after Floyd’s death, an Atlanta police officer shot and killed 27-yearold Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot in a scenario similar to the one described above. The June 12 incident came after police interviewed Brooks and took his driver’s license information. The question is, could the police have let him flee and arrested him later at his home or workplace? Perhaps, but

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Because he was armed, Palacios-Carbajal does not fit neatly within the wave of protests of police brutality. Officers believed he posed a threat to them and others. However, Chris Burbank, a former Salt Lake City Police chief who is now affiliated with the national Center for Policing Equity, said in an interview that the shooting of Palacios-Carbajal as he was fleeing was not necessary. Police knew what he looked like, Burbank said. He wasn’t going to get far on foot, and there were a lot of cops in the area.

“His actions don’t warrant the (police) taking of a life,” Burbank said.

A growing number of experts, some of whom are former cops, say significant change must be made to police training before there can be any meaningful reduction in fatalities and a better relationship between cops and communities.

Among them is Maria Haberfeld, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who said training in this country is fundamentally flawed.

The standards in the U.S. are below anything in any advanced country, she said in a City Weekly interview.

Haberfeld has studied police training and its outcomes for 20 years here and abroad and has written a number of books, including Critical Issues in Police Training.

In the U.S., cadets are trained with an emphasis on the technical aspects of the use of force and to neutralize any threat. However, she explained, there is little to no education on the emotional, psychological and physiological aspects of force, which would give a broader understanding of when it should be used, and why it’s not always the best strategy.

Norway is a good model, the professor said, where would-be police officers must earn a college degree that is shaped specifically for them. The instruction emphasizes psychology, social sciences and communication skills.

“It requires a college environment,” she said, “rather than eight to 10 hours a day for 16 weeks. That’s not how you retain knowledge.”

Among the challenges is that municipal budgets are tight, and training is expensive and often comes after such things as new cars, computers and equipment, as well as staffing increases. But saving money by not expanding police training because it’s expensive is irresponsible, Haberfeld said. “You’re putting a dollar sign on people’s lives.”

Too many unarmed people are being shot, said Burbank, the former chief.

“We are talking about unarmed individuals,” he said. “This is not what policing was meant to be.”

Police training needs a complete overhaul that would change how officers approach any situation, he said.

De-escalation must begin, in some cases, before contact with a suspect.

“Once you put a gun in your hand, it’s

very hard not to use it.”

On Aug. 11, 2014, while Burbank was chief, Dillon Taylor, 20, was killed by Salt Lake City Police Officer Bron Cruz, who responded to a call of “possible man-with-a-gun” at a convenience store. There, he encountered four young men, including Taylor, who began walking away with his hand inside his sweatpants. Cruz ordered Taylor to turn around and show his hands. When he turned and pulled his hand from his pants, Cruz shot him believing he was armed. He wasn’t.

The shooting was ruled justified because Cruz said he feared for his life, which under Utah law is a reasonable defense for police, even though Taylor was not a credible threat.

Still, it was the officer who set up the deadly situation. His approach to what could have been an armed suspect was deeply flawed, Burbank said. Cruz did not make sure something, his car perhaps, was between himself and Taylor

no way of knowing it wasn’t authentic and stopped to ask Hunt what he was doing. Details are sketchy, but witnesses say after some conversation, Hunt made a threatening motion with the sword and ran. Officers Matthew Schauerhamer and Nicholas Judson gave chase and, believing Hunt could be a lethal threat to others, shot him.

Later, the officers testified they told Hunt he must surrender the sword, which apparently set him off. “In this case, whatever their training was, if it had to do with de-escalation, it didn’t work,” said Randall K. Edwards, who represented Hunt’s mother, Susan Hunt. “Was the only option available shooting him in the back?”

The shooting was ruled justified by the Utah County Attorney. But Saratoga Springs settled a lawsuit brought

by Susan Hunt for $900,000, indicating, perhaps, that the killing was not necessary.

“OFFICERS VIEW DANGERS THAT ARE POSSIBLE, RATHER THAN DANGERS THAT ARE PROBABLE.” —Randy Shrewsberry Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform to provide cover that would allow him more time to assess the situation.

Slowing down such events is critical to de-escalation and achieving better outcomes. The urgency that cadets learn can put them in situations where they must make snap judgements that can lead to deadly results. Cops take away a “win at all cost” attitude from the academy, the former police chief said. “What you get in training is, ‘It’s better to be judged by 12 [jurors] than it is to be carried by six [pallbearers].’”

It also reveals, to some degree, police culture. And that, too, must evolve, Burbank said, to yield more thoughtful agencies. “Culture is created by leadership,” Burbank said.

Another incident that might have had a different outcome with more training is the Utah County case of Darrien Hunt, who was shot in the back six times while fleeing from Saratoga Springs police. On Sept. 10, 2014, Hunt, 22, was walking along a roadway carrying a sword that has been described as a “decorative” wall ornament, rather than a real sword. Police, however, had

“It’s time we re-imagine the role of police in society,” said Burkhalter, the professor and former New York City detective.

Burkhalter’s father also was a New York City cop. Police training hasn’t changed significantly since the 1960s, he said, when his father was on patrol.

Meanwhile, the world has changed into a much more complicated place. “It’s time we throw out the book and start from scratch,” he said.

Burkhalter, too, would like to see an entirely new training curriculum that would include college courses in psychology, sociology, anthropology and other disciplines that would inform police as they interact with the public.

“Education focuses on information and that leads to better decision making,” he said.

It isn’t so much what police are trained to do, Burkhalter noted, as what they are not trained to do. Cadets are not instructed how to limit the use of force, which should be proportional to the threat to society.

What was the threat posed by 13-year-

old Linden Cameron in Salt Lake City?

It wasn’t immediately clear to police that night because his mother, Golda Barton, told them her son may have had a gun—although she thought it could be a BB gun. That quickly shifted the dynamic because officers then had to assume the boy could be armed and a threat to others. The incident is under investigation. Authorities have not revealed whether a gun was found at the scene. Still, the question remains, could the officers have continued the pursuit and resolved the matter without using deadly force?

Police training teaches that the dangers are greater than they really are, particularly with firearms, said Randy Shrewsberry, a former cop who heads up the LA-based Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform. “Officers view dangers that are possible, rather than dangers than are probable.”

For example, on average, the same number of officers die each year from automobile accidents while on duty as die from gunshots—about 50. As of Oct. 1, 35 cops had died from gunshots in 2020, compared to 117 who had succumbed to COVID-19.

“We have to reshape the conversation on how police are trained overall,” he said. “Police want more training, but there are fiscal limitations.”

One solution, Shrewsberry said, would relieve agencies of the cost: If would-be cops sought college degrees in law enforcement that included a broad curriculum including both classroom education and field training, then the financial burden, like other college degrees, would be born by the student rather than taxpayers.

Such innovative thinking that would bring a new paradigm to policing does not appear close at hand. From New York City to LA, law enforcement has shown a reluctance to change, even though a significant body of research should inform them of the failures in policing and proposals that could improve it.

“Nothing will change until we take this seriously,” said Haberfeld, the John Jay College professor. “Training must be scientifically based and not based on politics.”

A good place to start would be the adoption of national standards, said Burkhalter, the former New York cop, but getting legislation through Congress would be difficult against pushback from police unions.

“The key,” he said, “is convincing the police and their unions that this is best for them and the public.”

In the meantime, each of the 13,000 law enforcement agencies across the nation will independently determine whether or not to update training.

Salt Lake City is in the midst of police training enhancements. Read Salt Lake City Mayor Mendenhall’s remarks on police training on page 14. CW

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• While the previous Use of Force policy required that an officer find it “reasonable to believe” that a person will use a weapon to harm someone, an officer must now determine that deadly force is “necessary” and that the threat of death or serious bodily injury is “imminent.”

Mayor Mendenhall compelled to change Salt Lake City policing

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n early September, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall made more restrictive the use of deadly force

by Salt Lake City Police and mandated that de-escalation techniques be used on every call before using force of any kind.

The old policy held that the use of deadly force is “reasonable” when an officer “believes” that a person will use a weapon to harm someone. The new policy says deadly force can only be used when it is “necessary,” and the threat of death or serious bodily injury is “imminent.” The significant policy shift is more restrictive than state law.

The mayor’s progressive approach includes training for Salt Lake City’s first responders with the organization KultureCity on how to recognize and communicate with people who have special sensory needs or other invisible disabilities, including autism. It would be a first, nationally, Mendenhall said.

“Since the murder of George Floyd, we’ve been able to see through a new lens and are compelled to change the way we do policing,” she said.

The new policy took effect the day after the police shooting of 13-year-old Linden Cameron, who suffers from autism and anxiety.

The mayor conceded that changing policies does not automatically transform the culture within the police department, but already, she said, that along with increased de-escalation training, officers are approaching challenging situations with an eye toward defusing them rather than using force.

The police union has criticized the new policies, saying the mandates make policing

more dangerous. Mendenhall noted, however, that union representatives have been unwilling to participate in discussions surrounding the new approach.

But Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown, who took the helm in 2015, said the rank and file, some 300 officers, are adapting well to the new policy. “Our men and women are committed to the police reforms we’ve been talking about.”

He pointed to a recent incident, where a man with two knives came at officers and dared them to shoot. Rather than pull their guns, they returned to their cars and backed up, giving them time to find a solution. In the end, the man was taken into custody without serious injury.

Brown has put an emphasis on neighborhood policing, where officers have an assigned beat so they can get to know people in the area in an effort to build trust. That’s especially true with minority communities, he said. “Trust is a commodity we need.”

The police department this year will spend about $1 million on training for officers already on the force. Much of that, the chief said, will include instruction in de-escalation techniques.

Salt Lake City already requires more than the 16 weeks of cadet academy training mandated by the state. Recruits in the capital city get 22 weeks of instruction plus an additional 16 weeks training with a veteran officer on patrol.

Training is key to providing better policing, Brown said. “How you practice on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is how you’re going to play the game on Saturday.” CW

• Officers will now be required to use de-escalation techniques before using force. Officers will employ effective communication techniques in an attempt to achieve voluntary compliance.

• Officers will be expected to not contribute to a situation that could lead to use of force by taking unnecessary, overly aggressive action. CW

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Primarily, these notes concern what I’d like to do once the thought of being in a public building with more than three people no longer fills me with dread. Quite high on the list is getting some good food at a restaurant—oh, how I miss the profound joy that wells up within when a well-dressed stranger brings a meal I didn’t cook to a table that I don’t own—before seeing a movie in an actual movie theater. Now that Kobe Japanese Restaurant (3763 Center Park Drive, 801-849-1216, facebook.com/ KobeJapaneseRestaurant) has expanded to Jordan Landing, within close proximity to so many other restaurants that I love, I feel like this sprawling commercial complex will be seeing much more of me once I reenter my moviegoing routine—whenever the hell that will be.

Kobe started out when Chef Mike Fukumitsu, a veteran of Salt Lake’s Kyoto and bona fide sushi professional, set up shop in Millcreek (3947 S. Wasatch Boulevard, 801277-2928). Like most of my cultural awareness, Kobe first blipped across my radar after watching an episode of Man vs. Food in which host Adam Richman attempted a spicy tuna roll challenge therein. Kobe has since discontinued this challenge, but

its legacy lives on in the Hell Fire Tatemaki ($8), which made my list of spiciest foods in the valley last year. For old time’s sake— and to see if the new location was going to pull its punches for the WJ crowd—that’s where I started.

When I got this sucker home and opened its container, I could see that it definitely looked the part: an unassuming, noriwrapped tatemaki roll with tiny blobs of angry red sauce contrasted by the friendly green kaiware sprouts frilling outward at each end. I popped one slice into my mouth, where I immediately recognized the deep, rich pepper flavor. It took a bit longer for the capsaicin wallop to show up and humiliate my sinuses, but rest assured—the fires of hell continue to be well-represented here.

I’m positive that my tolerance for extremely spicy food has become a bit strained as of late, but even so, the Hell Fire is a heat that lingers long after you’ve moved on. I can handle about half the roll before I start blubbering to myself and tap out.

Less extreme sushi enthusiasts also have a lot to play with at Kobe. To counterbalance the heat of the Hell Fire, the Freshie Roll ($13) with its cool shrimp, seared yellowtail, creamy avocado and sliced lemon is a good bet. The freshness from which the roll gets its name is front and center, and it’s an excellent chaser that brings you back from the edge. If you’re a fan of choosing the rolls with the most creative names, the Pablo Escolar ($13) is a tasty way to go. It’s a mix of spicy tuna and seared, buttery escolar with a hit of citrus from sliced lemon and ponzu sauce. Those who enjoy the simple but nuanced flavors of fresh fish and zesty citrus will want to put a hit on this one.

Also rocking the citrus note is the diner favorite known as Summer Breeze ($14).

It’s a flavorful mix of yellowtail, avocado, mango and jalapeño topped with salmon, lemon, tobiko and a habanero honey sauce.

Yes, it’s a bit on the spicy side, but after a dose of the Hell Fire tatemaki, you barely notice. The treat with this roll is the mix of

mango and avocado with fresh yellowtail and salmon. Yes, pumpkin spice season is upon us, but there’s no shame in taking a trip back to summerland.

For those looking forward to sipping hot broth and slurping toothsome ramen noodles, however, Kobe has you covered.

Their ramen menu is spare but effective— each variation is a deep, heady meditation into its respective flavors. The shoyu ramen ($10) is a plunge into the rich, dark saltiness of a good soy sauce. It’s bedecked with all the trimmings—soft boiled egg, pickled bamboo shoots, bean sprouts and a generous slice of chashu pork belly. This ramen is a celebration of salt in all its deceptively simple glory, and the additional ingredients just slurp up all that goodness—a lot like you’ll do once you have a bowl of this in front of you.

For a spicier, more acidic variation, the kimchi ramen ($10) is a tongue trip that fermented cabbage lovers must take. In addition to the traditional ramen entourage, this bowl of bold red broth includes thick leaves of kimchi, which impart both freshness and heat to this fragrant bowl of simmered excellence. Kobe’s ramen broth is a perfect antidote for cold weather, and their freshly made noodles are the perfect textural complement.

While I whittle away the quarantine hours and think about the local spaces I’m most excited to share with others, I’m happy to have a reliable place like Kobe so close to a movie theater. With a bit of patience and consideration, I’ll be shotgunning sushi rolls and slurping down bowls of hot ramen before taking in a slasher flick in no time. CW

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Overall: I drank a whole 16-ounce can of this 10 percent beer by myself, and it left me with that beer smirk that my wife really hates. Not designed for the Hazy lovers out there.

I recommend buying at least three of Kiitos’ 3rd Anniversary—one for now, and the others for aging. Shades’ Triple IPA is great now, probably even better towards the end of October as all of those hops mellow a bit.

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his week, we congratulate two of Utah’s finest beer-makers for making it another trip around the sun, during one of the craziest years on record.

And, in perfect Utah fashion, Shades and Kiitos brewing companies didn’t shy away from extreme beers as part of their celebration. If full flavor is what you seek, look no further than these heavy hitters.

Kiitos 3rd Anniversary Ale: This beer is a blend of four different barrel aged Kiitos ales. It starts with 20% Barleywine, aged in Wyoming Whiskey Barrels for 25 months, then includes 20% Imperial Red Ale (aged for 13 months in High West Whiskey Barrels), 20% Imperial Red Ale (aged for 5 months in High West Whiskey Barrels) and 40% Pastry Style Stout (aged 7 months in Sugar House Whiskey barrels). The viscous liquid is deep mahogany in color, with some orange highlights. The head, a dense, foamy taupe cap, builds and dies. First and foremost, the barrel-aged aspect of the aroma is front and center—vanilla and a slight oaky, earthy tobacco. After consideration and a swirl, one might also take in coffee, dark chocolate, fruit cake, coconut and a slight spiciness. Warm booze sends a tingle up the nostrils. In the middle of it all is a very subtle pine resin perfume concoction.

Much of the aroma carries into the palate. The coffee, chocolate and fruit cake are

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easiest to pick out. New flavors not in the nose are here too, such as rich molasses and fleeting notes of caramel. Delving further into the structure, there’s also a soft anise/ licorice note. Though a massive sweetness sticks around through mid-palate, it leaves after a while, providing a drying, tannic, oaky finish. The finish itself is long, and certainly feels like the smooth burn of brandy, and the vanilla of bourbon barrels.

Overall: This 11.6 percent ale deserves contemplation, as Kiitos has created a beer that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Each sip brings something new with every degree of temperature change as you whittle your way through it.

Shades Ten Year Anniversary: This beer features 10 pounds of 10 different hops, per barrel, consisting of Amarillo, Citra, Cascade, Comet, Centennial, Mosaic, Motueka, Galaxy, El Dorado and Huell Melon. This IPA pours a semi-clear yet slightly cloudy peach color. A sizable bubbly soapy lather of a head caps the top. The aroma, boastful at first, is not necessarily a harbinger of things to come. It’s citrusy, yet not as fruity as other IPAs, though grapefruit comes in strong.

In general, there is a stronger emphasis on dried apricot, fig, peach and pith.

In the mouth, it is a complex combination of plump and juicy citrus, plus smooth and velvety malts that coat the mouth like a soft pillow. Then, all of a sudden, it’s like someone stuffed said pillow full of grapefruits, and it knocks you on your ass. The salad of hops creates a resinous pine smack that leaves the palate reeling, like you’re chewing on nugs. The result feels like a hoppy barleywine at times. The carbonation is gentle, and the fruity tones consist of apricot, grapefruit and big citrus pith on the back end. The sweet finish features a strong herbal, resiny and bitter linger.

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After Dark Drag Cabaret

The lovely ladies who comprise the Quorum of the Queens will be dearly departing from their brunchtime stint to host a drag dinner cabaret on Oct. 28 at the Tavernacle Social Club (201 E. 300 South, 801-519-8900, tavernacle.com). Ghostly hostess Gia Bianca Stephens has designs on summoning a bevy of bewitching bitches for an evening of entertainment, tasty bites and boozy libations; it’s the dark side of the Quorum’s fabulous drag brunches. Attendees can scream along with the antics of local drag favorites Madazon Can-Can, Ivy Dior Stephens and Heifer Vescence while enjoying some socially distant society. The event starts at 7 p.m. and tickets can be purchased via EventBrite.

Food and Beer Pairing at Bewilder

The folks at Bewilder Brewing (445 S. 400 West, 385-528-3840, bewilderbrewing.com) are gearing up for one of their popular food and beer pairings on Oct. 27. Brewers from the Bewilder team have selected four eight-ounce beers—including a new release—to go along with a fivecourse meal expertly tailored to highlight some of Bewilder’s fall favorites. Though you’ll likely be stuffed to the gills when you leave, make sure to snag some of Bewilder’s homemade sausages for later. The event starts at 6:30 p.m., and attendees can RSVP via Bewilder’s website. Attendees are encouraged to wear face coverings and practice social distancing.

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ash bail is frightening. Cash bail is scary. Cash bail is a nightmare,” are a few of the taglines offered by Katie Van Sleen about the cash bail system, which is the subject of an upcoming Halloween event by local prison abolition collective Decarcerate Utah. Van Sleen, along with fellow DU member Shaylee Syme, will be hosting a Punk Rock Halloween-inspired variety show and silent auction to benefit the efforts of DU’s Community Bail Fund, a project with the goal of helping incarcerated Salt Lakers get back to living their lives.

In a conversation with Van Sleen and Syme, it’s hard to tell what they’re more fired up about: the costume prospects available to them as hosts of the live streamed show, or the obscenity of the bail system. “We will be having multiple costume changes,” Van Sleen says of the show, which stemmed from a desire to revive the Punk Rock Halloween tradition virtually. But because of the complicated ask of getting bands to learn cover sets and get costumes together during a brain-numbing and wallet-draining pandemic, they decided to pivot to the more flexible format of a variety show (for which more info is available on Twitter and Instagram @decarcerateutah or on decarcerateutah.org).

“It still will be in many ways a Punk Rock Halloween,” Van Sleen says of the Oct. 31 event, which, even with its variety show theme, is indeed still a punk effort if one remembers that punk in its truest form means fighting back against oppression.

“Basically, the first two requests for the bail fund were $60,000 and $100,000,” says Van Sleen, describing the initial requests for bail aid DU received just after raising an initial $15,000 for their fund in September. “We also had a request just last week of $500,000 [from] someone who’s been in jail for over a year, [who] has still not been convicted of a crime.”

Van Sleen notes that this delay is because jury trials aren’t happening now, due to the pandemic. Under normal circumstances, people who are forced to wait for a trial are then “incentivized to take a plea deal they otherwise wouldn’t take, because they just need to get home, and they need to take care of their families and work and not lose their children [or] their jobs,” Van Sleen explains.

“At the very least, holding people in COVID prisons is cruel and this pandemic is unusual,” Syme adds. “Nobody can afford $500,000 cash bail—except there are people who can afford $500,000 cash bail, and they can go on and continue to live their lives undisrupted. The people who can’t afford that are typically the ones who are stuck in a cycle of poverty. So it reinforces the structure of crime and punishment for these people who are ‘innocent until proven guilty.’”

But the Community Bail Fund seeks to disrupt the cash bail system—so that it stops disrupting the lives of Utahns all over the valley. “The cool thing about the bail fund is that we get to reuse the money over and over and over again,” Van Sleen says. “But if we

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Enter the Halloween variety show and silent auction. Confirmed local performers will stream sets via Zoom, Facebook Live and YouTube Live, and include local acts Red Herring, Umbels, Rebel Rebel, PK Opal, Marqueza, Josaleigh Pollett and, for a refreshing international twist, the “anarcho-noisy beep-boop” act Beau Mahadev from China.

“I’m sure there are a lot of other people who depend on performing to be at least some of their income, so I think this is going to be the first time some people have performed in a really long time,” Syme points out, indicating that tips to artists individually wouldn’t be unwelcome. Comedy routines from William Mierzwa and Aaron Woodall and drag performance from Mona Diet will supplement the musical picks, and while the show rolls, folks can donate at slcbailfund.org/donate or tip via Venmo or Cash App. “There are going to be prizes the night of our variety show that we are going to be giving out throughout the night, which should incentivize people to stick around, tip and participate,” Van Sleen says. Winners of the raffles and the silent auction can look forward to donated goods from local musicians, artists, businesses, bakers and other makers, with silent auction bidding going live a week before and through Halloween night. Bidders will also be glad to know that any person of color donating goods to the auction receives 15% of the funds raised from their item.

“Our elected representatives, especially Erin Mendenhall, don’t seem to care about incarcerated people who are affected by cash bail, who are primarily low-income, poor and homeless. That’s a fair statement,” says Van Sleen in closing. Luckily for SLC, the folks from Decarcerate Utah are showing everyone how to disrupt a predatory system and take care of our community—and having good old-fashioned Halloween fun while doing so. CW

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Guests delivering their own unique terrifying performances include Tony Berrow, Icky Rogers, Marrlo Suzzanne, M’Lady Wood, EllissDee, Agony Ray, Flora the Kween, Sally Cone Slopes, Ana Lee Kage and Devon Dixxx. If it’s the silly and absurd you love most about Halloween, this is the show for you, and it starts at 7 p.m. In quite a different vein, and maybe a truly more terrifying one, is the following night’s slot, which will be filled by local deathcore five-piece Amorous. The band has been releasing music since 2018 and playing their aggressive take on the genre around at scene staples like Crucialfest, too. Following their 2019 full-length MDXI, the group will hopefully be playing some new tracks, too, if one considers their recent single “Thread(s)” as any indication. They’ll find support in OVNI and Freedom Before Dying when they play on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. Each show this weekend is 21+ with tickets $15, and requires masks and social distancing. Book tickets in household groups of twos or fours, or email jordan@jrcslc.com to accommodate larger groups.

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In the short amount of time that humans have existed as we do on this little blue orb, we’ve delivered many changes onto the world. Among all the good developments, there have also been many bad—things like climate change, for example, which in recent years has become a big question mark for the future of humanity. Enter Rising Tides: The Crossroads Project, which seeks to explore the point where the good and the bad meet, and how they define our world and our future. A collaboration of art and science, the featurelength cinematic piece has all the striking and dramatic qualities of a Blue Planet episode, but with Utah talent to fill it out musically. Presented by the NOVA Chamber Music Series, The Fry Street Quartet—the in-faculty group from the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University—will perform compositions by Laura Kaminsky to soundtrack the visually striking film with, shifting through four different movements titled “H20,” “Bios,” “Forage” and “Societas.” The film also features another USU persona in Physicist Dr. Robert Davies, who will help guide the whole narrative through. The best part about this online screening—which will be linked at novaslc.org/crossroads—is that viewing the striking image and hearing the stirring musical performances of the Quartet is free of charge. The event starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25, and will be followed by a discussion panel featuring the artists and the scientists involved in the making of the film. More info and a trailer can be found at thecrossroadsproject.org.

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It’s often a very special thing when lovers of the niche, the obscure and the un-mainstream come together—and especially so when it’s across time and from varied experiences. Local label FOUNTAINavm’s Adam Michael Terry is one of those people, and has a talent for seeking out others like him. That was how he connected with Lloyd Miller, whose 1960s-released Oriental Jazz is now a collector’s item among jazz- and world-music-lovers. With the intention of asking Miller to play some SLC shows (which he later would, at Peasantries & Pleasantries in August 2019), Terry accidentally became friends with the artist, who divulged not just his experiences in music from all over the globe and the past, but his faith and theories about apocalypse. Their conversations would lead to making and releasing new music together, with the help of fellow performer Ian Camp. The introductory track on the album features a snippet of Miller’s casual doomsday prophesying recorded by Terry during a tune up, which Terry writes in the liner notes proved to be eerily true months later as he mixed the record during the beginning days of the pandemic. The record swirls with wild jazz movements, kept moving swiftly by the many sonorous world instruments Miller is an expert in both playing and studying as an academic. While most of the album thrums with a certain grimness, brighter songs like “Bassmeant Blues at The Apocalypse” not only reference his pleasant-sounding “funky fallout, dystopian speakeasy” of a basement where they recorded much of the album, but radiates light with bass grooves, splashing cymbals and vibrant visits from koto and dilruba. Recorded modestly, featuring one live track from the Peasantries set, this album is a soothing listen, achieving the “comfort, peace, empathy and understanding” that Terry notes Miller has championed throughout his career. Visit fountainavm.com/at-the-ends-of-the-world to listen or buy the limited pressing of the record, and to read more from Terry’s detailed liner notes.

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And that question is: What would it sound like if a clown was killing you? In a world where clowns have seen a revival in the cinematic realm (It, Joker) and in the general public’s psyche during such times as the 2016 rash of creepy clown sightings, The Interdimensional Clown Collective is opening up this question as part of a call for submissions for “ramblings, poetry, noise art, skits, songs, anti-songs and more.” In their post on their event page, they ask the simple question, “How would it be if a clown was killing you, your band, or your troupe?” which is something many of us have probably had nightmares about, especially those who have a clown phobia. However, these local performance artists are no strangers to indulging border-pushing antics and collaborative engagement. Meli and Zephyr Goose are the pair who make up the clown troupe, and their past performances include strange striptease sets, musical performances using radios and wrapping rainbow string around a room with the help of entangled audience members.

Since the end of live shows, they’ve worked on collaborative albums instead, including the Oct. 11 released and truly freaky Eucharist: An Exploration of the Secret Rites of the Post​-​Ancient Bug City of Bugalon, which builds on the lore the pair have crafted around their clowning. A Clown Is Killing You will be released on Halloween, with a submission deadline of Oct. 25. A few other collaborative album opportunities will help the clowns close out the year, including for Old Mother Hubbard, which invites ruminations of witchcraft, wastelands and various kinds of nonsense (deadline Nov. 22) and The Great Honking, which refocuses on a major goose-related part of Interdimensional Clown mythology (deadline Dec. 25). Listen to Eucharist and other work at thegreathonking.bandcamp.com and make submissions at thegreathonking@gmail.com.

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The drive-in concert formula was a staple this summer, and now it’s parked in the autumn lineup of events, too.

Fans of the Utah wunderkind and American Idol darling David Archuleta will be excited to know that the star took up the model recently for a drive-in show in Idaho Falls, and is making a second go at it on Friday, Oct. 23 at the Utah State Fairpark. This drive-in concert will be markedly different from other high-profile drive-in concerts that City Weekly has covered this year, mainly in that it’s actually a live performance and not a pre-recorded one, and will find Archuleta on the stage rather than the silver screen. The young soloist has been there and back again in his musical career, launched into pop stardom post-American Idol but then chasing down faith again with a musical hiatus so he could take time to go on an LDS mission. This is all familiar Archuleta lore to any Utahn, though, and what may be less well-known is that since those early days of his career, he’s pressed forward with pop album after pop album, forming a model for many wannabe stars in the Utah scene. His latest, the May 2020 release Therapy Sessions, feels like the most honest songwriting Archuleta has let loose into the world, kept buoyant by bright and surprising production.

The chance to see him at the Fairpark is there for those willing to nab tickets before the limited capacity event sells out—because car spaces are quite limited. Masks and social distancing are required when attendees are outside of their spaces, but attendees can also look forward to concessions, as well as allotted space for tailgating and sitting outside of one’s car. General admission tickets are $175 per car (up to six people), while VIP tickets are $300 for a few extra featured perks. Visit discipleevents.com/driveinfaq for more info and disciplelive.ticketspice.com for tickets.

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hat is lost when people assimilate?

It’s a thorny question, one that’s perhaps as contentious as it has ever been in an America where the very idea of who gets to call themselves “American” is a socio-political battleground. Those of us who grew up with the idealized notion of the United States as a melting pot never got to hear the part of the conversation about whose culture is the pot, into which everyone else’s is expected to melt.

Dear White People creator Justin Simien’s Bad Hair takes the kind of allegorical horror-comedy that Jordan Peele is turning into a personal brand, and applies it to the way Black image and identity is tied to the ideals of European-ness. At the same time, Simien shows a facility with making a purely satisfying genre film that doesn’t lose anything by having a brain in its head.

Set in 1989, Bad Hair focuses on Anna Bludso (Elle Lorraine), a young woman try-

ing to work her way up the career ladder at a BET-style cable network called Culture. In the midst of a shift in leadership at the company—with Grant Madison (James Van Der Beek) becoming the new CEO and replacing Anna’s mentor with ex-model Zora (Vanessa Williams)—Anna feels the pressure to adapt to a new mainstream-leaning emphasis. That means doing something about the naturallykinky hair that a childhood trauma has led her to avoid changing, leading her to an upscale salon where the weaves they give customers change their lives … and end others.

It’s no spoiler, given the entire premise of the movie, that Anna’s new ’do develops a thirst for blood, beginning with deserving victims like Anna’s rapist landlord. Simien isn’t afraid of getting playful with his concept, as Anna’s dawning awareness that she’s got some funky follicles comes after they sop up the blood left behind by a rare hamburger, or apply themselves to the first day of Anna’s period. Simien’s directing choices work well for the pure scares as well, but it’s generally more interesting when he decides to have fun with the era in which the story is set, whether that’s the style of the music videos by Black artists that the station plays, or Madison’s comment that entire network exists basically as a way for the parent MTV-esque network to avoid a lawsuit.

That edgy recognition of cultural divisions works as Bad Hair digs into its mythology, helpfully supplied by Anna’s folklore scholar uncle (Blair Underwood). The folk tale of the “Moss Hair Girl” becomes not just the kind of exposition every supernatural horror story has to dish out at some point, but part of a bigger picture about how legends and sto-

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I vote in American elections, but I’ve never belonged to a political party. One of my favorite politicians is Bernie Sanders, who for most of his career has been an independent. But now I’m a staunch advocate for the Democrats. Why? Because Republicans are so thoroughly under the curse of the nasty, cruel, toxic person known as Donald Trump. I’m convinced that it’s crucial for our country’s well-being that Democrats achieve total victory in the upcoming election. In accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to do your personal equivalent of what I’ve done: Unambiguously align yourself with influences that represent your highest, noblest values. Take a sacred stand not TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Author Renata Adler expresses my own feelings when she writes, just for yourself, but also on behalf of everything you love.

“Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.” I bet SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) if you’re honest, Taurus, you would say the same. It’s almost “I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity,” said fashion writer certainly the case that the people you regard as worthy of your love Diana Vreeland. Here’s how I interpret that: People who care and interest are absolutely unique. In the sense that there are no mostly for their own feelings and welfare—and who believe other characters like them in the world, they are superstars and they’re more important than everyone else—are boring and prodigies. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent repellent. But those who enjoy looking their best and expressing time to fully express your appreciation for their one-of-a-kind their unique beauty may do so out of a desire to share their gifts beauty—to honor and celebrate them for their entertainment with the world. Their motivation might be artistry and generosity, not self-centeredness. In accordance with cosmic potentials, value and precious influence and unparalleled blessings.

Scorpio, I invite you to elude the temptations of narcissism as you explore benevolent forms of vanity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “If you cannot find an element of humor in something, you’re not taking it seriously enough,” writes author Ilyas Kassam. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) That’s a key thought for you to keep in mind during the com- Yes, do let people see you sweat. At least for now, be forthright and ing weeks. Levity and joking will be necessities, not luxuries. revelatory. Let people witness your secret fire, your fierce tang, your Fun and amusement will be essential ingredients in the quest salty tears and your unhealed wounds. Hold nothing back as you give to make good decisions. You can’t afford to be solemn and what you haven’t been able to give before. Be gleefully expressive stern, because allowing those states to dominate you would as you unveil every truth, every question, every buried joy. Don’t diminish your intelligence. Being playful—even in the face of be crude and insensitive, of course. Be as elegant and respectful as possible. But make it your priority to experiment with sacred challenges—will ensure your ultimate success. vulnerability. Find out how far you can safely go as you strip away the disguises that have kept you out of touch with your full power.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) I’m hoping the horoscopes I wrote for you in late August helped propel you into a higher level of commitment to the art of trans- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) formation. In any case, I suspect that you will have the chance, Between 2008 and 2017, Southern California had two sizable in the coming weeks, to go even further in your mastery of that earthquakes: 5.5 and 5.1 on the Richter scale. But during the art. To inspire you in your efforts, I’ll encourage you to at least same period, the area had 1.8 million small quakes that were temporarily adopt one or more of the nicknames in the follow- mostly too mild to be felt. The ground beneath the feet of the ing list: 1. Flux Luster 2. Fateful Fluctuator 3. Shift Virtuoso local people was shaking at the rate of once every three minutes.

4. Flow Maestro 5. Alteration Adept 6. Change Arranger 7. Metaphorically speaking, Capricorn, you’re now in a phase that resembles the mild shakes. There’s a lot of action going on Mutability Savant 8. Transition Connoisseur beneath the surface, although not much of it is obvious. I think this is a good thing. The changes you’re shepherding are proLEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from ceeding at a safe, gradual, well-integrated pace. others, too,” wrote author Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) when one is connected to one’s own core, is one connected to No American woman was allowed to earn a medical degree and others.” In bringing these thoughts to your attention, Leo, I practice as a physician until Aquarian-born Elizabeth Blackwell did don’t mean to imply that you are out of touch with your deep it in 1849. It was an almost impossible feat, since the all-male colself. Not at all. But in my view, all of us can benefit from getting lege she attended undermined her mercilessly. Once she began her into ever-closer communion with our deep selves. In the coming career a doctor, she had to outwit men who made it difficult for her. weeks, you especially need to work on that—and are likely to Nevertheless, she persisted. Eventually, she helped create a medical school for women in England, making it possible for 476 women have extra success in doing so. to practice medicine there. I propose making her your patron saint for now. May she inspire you to redouble the diligent pursuit of VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) My cosmic tipsters told me that you will be even smarter than your big dream. Here’s your motto: “Nevertheless, I’m persisting.” usual in the coming weeks. As I scoured the heavenly maps, I detected signs that you have the potential to be a skilled code- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) cracker, riddle-decipherer and solver of knotty problems and Henry David Thoreau wrote, “I fear my expression may not be tricky dilemmas. That’s why I suggest you express gratitude extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the to your beautiful brain, Virgo. Sing it sweet songs and tell it narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the how much you love it and find out which foods you can eat to truth of which I have been convinced.” You’ll be wise to have a strengthen it even more. Now read Diane Ackerman’s descrip- similar fear, Pisces. According to my analysis, you can generate tion of the brain: “that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray good fortune for yourself by transcending what you already know parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside and think. Life is conspiring to nudge you and coax you into seeking a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that experiences that will expand your understanding of everything.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do,” testified Aries chanteuse Billie Holiday. She wasn’t suggesting that she had a stylish way of crooning about fine dining.

Rather, she meant “hunger” in the sense of the longing for life’s poignant richness. Her genius-level ability to express such beauty was due in part to her skillful vocal technique but also because she was a master of cultivating soulful emotions. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries, is to refine and deepen your own hunger.

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Watching David Attenborough’s documentary, A Life on Our Planet, made me so depressed, I wanted to step in front of a UTA bus. We’re quickly killing our planet—with little being done to stop the pollution and destruction of wilderness, oceans and species. Corporate greed has reduced the rainforests in Borneo by over 50% and replaced them with palm oil plantations that tragically have reduced habitat for orangutans and other wildlife. As we lose more tigers, elephants and rhinos, we may soon be living in a sci-fi world where the only wildlife left on this planet will be seen in zoos.

Speaking of zoos, did you know that Liberty Park was home to Utah’s first zoo? In the late 1800s, a plot of land was dedicated as Liberty Park. A zoo was established in the early 1900s, with enclosures of monkeys, a wild deer and a smattering of wild birds.

Schoolkids gathered donations of pennies and nickels and helped buy an elephant named Princess Alice from a traveling circus. She soon had a son named Prince Utah, but she accidently killed him rolling over in her sleep. Locals reported they could see tears from her eyes and hear mournful cries from her for weeks. In the 1930s, she was known to escape and run through Sugar House and Liberty Wells yards, picking up laundry lines and clothing in her wanderings. She was called a vandal in local papers for her misdeeds, and it became apparent that space for a larger zoo was needed—one that was outside of town.

Enter the Hogle family of Utah. They donated a large parcel of land at the mouth of Emigration Canyon for the new zoo. A zoological society was formed to gather more donations for enclosures and infrastructure. During the Depression, they sold flowers to the public to pay for animal feed. Times were hard, and at one point, the zoo was cut off from its fresh water supply because of a $195 bill. The community rallied with donations and volunteers saving the zoo, despite someone sneaking in and shooting the polar bear dead, just for fun.

Princess Alice died in 1953, and one of the zoo’s directors (Gerald de Bary) was fatally bitten by a puff adder in 1964.

This past week, the chairman of the board of Hogle Zoo passed away at age 83.

James “Jim” Hogle had served on the board for 46 years. He worked tirelessly to find funding, and in the 1980s, Salt Lake County took over funding the zoo’s operating expenses. In the past two decades, the zoo created successful events such as “Boo at the Zoo” and “Zoo Lights” and lobbied to get voters to help fund the zoo. Thank you to all the Hogles, and especially Jim. May your work to save the world’s animals continue. (The zoo is open daily during COVID. Visit hoglezoo.org for more information.) n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Great Art! Passersby were in awe as 32 tons of raw carrots were dumped from a large truck onto a road running through the University of London campus on Sept. 30. The carrots were an art installation presented as part of the Goldsmiths art college Master of Fine Arts degree show by student Rafael Perez Evans, who titled his work “Grounding” and said it is designed to raise awareness about food waste, United Press International reported. The show ran from Oct. 2-6, and “Rafael has arranged for the carrots to be removed at the end of the exhibition and donated to animals,” a university spokesperson said.

Recent Alarming Headlines In White Marsh, Maryland, a person driving past the closed Rustic Inn bar on the morning of Oct. 7 saw what they thought was a Halloween decoration in the parking lot, WJZ reported.

After doubling back, the driver determined it was a dead body, and “the body has suffered some sort of trauma,” said Jennifer Peach of the Baltimore County Police Department. Peach went on to appeal for tips from the public: “We don’t have a lot of information at this point.”

Entrepreneurial Spirit n Two young men soliciting residents in Covina, California, for donations for the Covina High School football team ran into a problem when they appeared at the door of a resident who quickly questioned them: “It’s funny you bring that up, because I know for a fact that you guys don’t go to Covina because I teach there ... I’m a football coach.” When neither of the alleged scammers could name the head coach, they left, Fox11 reported on Oct. 7, and the football team tweeted confirmation that the two were not with the program. n Hotels.com is offering one lucky customer the opportunity to “live under a rock” to escape “election stress disorder” during election week Nov. 2-7, United Press International reports. The accommodations in a human-made cave 50 feet below ground in New Mexico will cost just $5 per night. “Political fatigue is real, regardless of the year or election,” said Josh Belkin, vice president of Hotels.com. “Who knows what else 2020 has in store for us.”

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A Japanese buyer with very precise requirements has paid a record $14,000 for a 22-pound traditional Iberian ham, Oddity Central reported. Julio Revilla, president of Sierra Mayor Jabugo, in Corteconcepcion, Spain, said the ham was produced according to the buyer’s strict instructions: It had to come from an Iberian pig at least 2 years old that had grazed on a diet of only acorns and herbs in the mountains of Sierra Mayor for at least 100 days. The pig was slaughtered in 2015 and the ham was then cured for five years and twice the amount of time for a typical premium ham. It was delivered to the buyer in September, who was also awarded with a Guinness World Record certificate.

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Investigators had found blood at the scene of the robbery and on hats the unidentified 45-year-old victim said had been left by the assailant. The Connecticut Post reported the DNA samples matched, according to the arrest warrant, and on Sept. 25, Blue was charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree assault.

News That Sounds Like a Joke n Larry Stothers, 41, and Jayson Rappa, 31, were arrested on Sept. 26 in Largo, Florida, and charged with strong-arm robbery after allegedly stealing a prosthetic leg, according to The Smoking Gun. Police say they were called by the victim after Stothers and Rappa confronted him over a stolen backpack, “and in the course of the fight, a prosthetic leg was taken from the victim.” Court records did not reveal the whereabouts of the leg. n An aggressive Muscovy duck named Bob in Mansfield, England, has terrorized postman Steve Hinds to the point that Hinds has refused to deliver mail to the duck’s owners until they contain him, The Scottish Sun reported. Hinds told the Sun that on Oct. 3, “The duck started hissing at me and ... it ran me up the path snapping its beak.” The apologetic owners left a Crunchie candy bar as a peace offering for Hinds and a note reading, “He used to be lovely and cuddly. Now he is a vicious sex-maniac! We have fenced him in and hopefully he won’t escape.” But two days later, Bob escaped the fence and came after Hinds again. At press time, the standoff continues.

Anger Management Justin Anthony Garcia, 30, of Lehigh Acres, Florida, landed in the Lee County Jail on Sept. 27 on charges of aggravated battery following a heated argument over which is better: whole milk or almond milk, reported Fox 23 News. Deputies of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office were called to the scene after the disagreement between two cousins escalated from verbal to physical, according to court documents, eventually ending with Garcia drawing a pocketknife and chasing his cousin through the front yard, cutting him on the torso. An uncle intervened and separated the two until deputies arrived, but the arrest complaint does not say which type of milk Garcia prefers.

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