The City Council on Tuesday adjourned its Tuesday meeting in honor of a man who openly battled with the city for years in court, alleging his firing as an investigator for the commission that oversees police was in retaliation for speaking out against “pro-police bias.”
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Councilman Roberto Uranga requested the meeting be closed in honor of two residents, and one of them was Tomas Gonzales, 74, who died Tuesday after a years-long battle with cancer.
Gonzales was an investigator for the city’s Citizens Police Complaint Commission. He was fired in 2006 and filed a lawsuit alleging retaliation in 2009. He settled in July 2019 for a sum of $775,000.