USING LIGHTS IN BAD WEATHER- A new North
Carolina law now requires that motorists turn on their
headlights and wipers while driving in the rain. The law
stems from research done on the number of accidents
that have occured during bad weather.
Police Commissioner Refuses To
Voice Comment On Deaths of Nine
NEW YORK(AP)- Police
Commissioner Lee Drown refused to
comment on the actions o' a pol.ce
captain in charge of outside City
Colle. es the night nine people died at
a rap celebrity basketball game.
Speaking on Thursday about a city
report on the tragedy. Drown said
rny juugement of Capt. Daniel J.
Carlin would be withheld pending the
outcome of an Internal Affairs
investigation
Carlin was one of many people
rebuked in a mayoral review of the
deadly Dec. "0 City College surge.
Th< captain called a news conference
Thursday ann angrily denounced the
conclusion that he had acted
improperly
' f am sell assured, my conscience
is absolutely clear, that wh it I did
was proper lor that time,” said
Carlin. “And everything that I could
do, I did do.”
Drown repeatedly refused to offer
his opinion of the Deputy Mayor
Milton Mollan’s report. He said the
department has asked Mollen to
share materials, such as interviews
with peopi > who refused to talk to the
Dolice.
Meanwhile, City College, criticized
for inadequate security during the
tragedy, has been moved up on the
list of schools previously earmarked
for specially trained peace officers.
And City University of New York
board member Herman Dadillo
called for the firing of three City
College officials accused ol
negligence in the stampede.
The mayoral investigation,
released late Wednesday, blamed
nearly all the parties involved:
police, college officials, event
organizers, student groups and the
crowd itself.
It said police used "highly
questionable” judgement in
controlling the 5,000 people who tried
to press into a 2,700 capacity
gymnasium for a benefit basketball
game by rap musicians.
Mollen charged that Carlin ignored
an officer’s warning, just moments
before the deaths, about a
"commotion” in a stairwall.
“That is contested,” said Carlin's
lawyer, Richard Dienst. "The only
words that were used were, I believe,
in the report, ’a commotion.’ That
commotion’ has not been defined.”
Dienst also denied that when a
college administator asked for
medical assistance inside, Carlin was
initially unresponsive for
maintaining order outside the gym.
Drown reminded police officers
that they have an obligation to
“respond immediately when there is
reason the believe a danger to
individuals or public safety exists or
that a crime is in progress.”
The commissioner defended his
department:
“I think !he citizens of New York
can take some confidence knowing
the New York City Police
Department historically handles
large gatherings, whether it’s
parades, whethere it’s concerts in
Central Park, whether it’s New
Year’s Eve in Times Square, whether
it’s the rock concert at Madison
Square Garden, the NYPD has a
reputation throughtout the country of
being able to handle large crowds.
That expertise has not disappeared,
that we will continue to handle large
crowds, as it has done for years and
years and years prior to that event
and also subsequent to that event.”
When asked if any lessons had been
learned, Dtown responded: “I think
all of ua learned the lesson that you
need to d j proper planning for events,
that there needs to be coordination of
all entities involved.”
Meanwhile, Dadillo, a former
Bronx borough president and
congressman, told the New York Poet
recently that City College Vice
President for Student Affairs George
McDonald, security director Charles
Delaney and Jean Charles, director
of the Finely Center, which includes
the gym, should all lose their jobe
over their failure to prevent the
stampede.
The mayoral report accused three
of abdicating responsiblitv in
connection with the ill fated
basket!.all game.
“I think we would be negligent if we
gave them a second chance," Daciillo
said.
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