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Juneteenth marks the day when General Gordon Granger and Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 and took control of the state and

") } }) ev.preventDefault(); }); 1 Denise Paley holds up a photograph of her son, Ellis Tibere, at a virtual public hearing last month. Paley is pushing for more mental health training for police officers a little over a year after Tibere randomly attacked a woman in a Westport parking lot during an apparent mental health crisis. Image capture from CT-N ) Guilford — It was the evening of Jan. 5 last year that Denise Paley walked into the Guilford Police Department (GPD) headquarters. Her 18-year-old son, Ellis Tibere, had left the house around noon, ostensibly to meet friends...

Police task force seeks wider applicant pool for watchdog role A salute as the national anthem is played during the Connecticut State Police graduation ceremony in October. Four months after the Criminal Justice Commission deadlocked on whom to appoint as the state’s first inspector general, the Police Transparency and Accountability Task Force has recommended changing the law so the special prosecutor does not need to be chosen from among Connecticut’s existing pool of state’s attorneys. The inspector general will be tasked with investigating deaths in police and Department of Correct...

Just a week before a Hartford police officer fatally shot a rifle-wielding man in an apparent suicide-by-cop, a Connecticut state’s attorney called attention to the prevalence of mental health issues in those killed by police.