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Mayor Gary Fuller recognized Ronnie Brundage Firefighter of the Year, Gabriella Santiesteban as Telecommunicator of the Year and Lt. Alfred White as Police Officer of the Year.

A driver and passenger in a pickup truck were taken to the hospital Friday night after the truck drove right through the living room of a home in Columbia County.

Filed against the boy saying there is no evidence that the freshman freintended to cause h. last night ahmed told me he was questioned for over an hour without being allowed to talk to his parents. >> did you ask them if you could call your parents? >> yes. >> what did they say? >> they told me no you cant call your parents. youre in the middle of an interrogation at the moment. >> chief boyd said he was looking into the matter. >> is that your policies when someone is detained theyre not permit...

School. weve seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. >> joining me now is irving police chief larry boyd. chief boyd, given a little bit of time to process all this, i imagine youre feeling amount of press increase and the like. do you have regrets how it is handle? >> i think were in the process of examining everything that occurred. all the decision points. what we want to do. looking out for the safety of the students and the staff and the school that were talking a...

We live in an age where you cant take things like that to school. weve seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. >> joining me now is irving police chief larry boyd. chief boyd, given a little bit of time to process all this, i imagine youre feeling amount of press increase and the like. do you have regrets how it is handle? >> i think were in the process of examining everything that occurred. all the decision points. what we want to do. looking out for the safety of the...

Handled and said race played no role in the incident. >> what would the police reaction and response been the same had this been a white student who brought that same exact device into the school? >> our reaction -- youve seen the image. our reaction would have been the same either way. thats a suspicious device. we live in an age where you cant take things like that to school. weve seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. >> joining me now is irving police chief larry ...

Interrogation at the moment. >> chief boyd said he was looking into the matter. >> is that your policies when someone is detained theyre not permitted to call their attorney or their parent? >> as stated earlier any high profile situation well follow up -- i dont have the answer specifically to your question as to whether he was immediately allowed to call his father or not. >> boyd has not apologized for the way ahmeds arrest was handled and said race played no role in the incident. >> what wou...

>> yes. >> what did they say? >> they told me no you cant call your parents. youre in the middle of an interrogation at the moment. >> chief boyd said he was looking into the matter. >> is that your policies when someone is detained theyre not permitted to call their attorney or their parent? >> as stated earlier any high profile situation well follow up -- i dont have the answer specifically to your question as to whether he was immediately allowed to call his father or not. >> boyd has not apo...

Chief boyd protects 43 miles of water front. let me ask you this central question now, we focus so much attention on this issue right after 9/11, are we safer now than then? >> i would say we are safer now than we were then, but we have still got a long way to go. >> when it comes to the issue here in washington, that the idea of somebody with a soccer ball sized amount of a highly enriched uranium or plutonium would come in and wreak havoc can come into a city large or small, considering the tr...