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StarTribune - Print Page <br />StarTribune <br />Golden Valley human rights commissioi <br />tismissed <br />Article by: MARY -JAN E S M ETAN KA <br />Star Tribune <br />December 23, 2011 - 10:02 PM <br />Commission Chairwoman Anne Dykstra, who suggested the police resolution, could not be reached for comment. At the <br />November cou nci 1-com mission meeting, she said commissioners raised the issue because residents asked them to. <br />Since 2008, Golden T'alley has settled two police cases, one involving use of a Taser and the other in which a jury I <br />letermined excessive force had been used and awarded a total of about $1.3 mon. In September, a woman with a histo <br />,tf mental illness was shot to death by a city police officer after she was stopped while speeding on Interstate 394 and raise <br />handgun in the direction of the officer. <br />At the November meeting, one council member called the commission request for a task force "abhO­rrent." Officials also said <br />that any discussion of the 1-394 shooting, which is still under investigation, opened the city to legal liability. They pointed out <br />that the city's Police Department has a different chief than it did when the incidents linked to the $1.3 million award for <br />damages occurred, and they detailed the training police go through. But commission members said some residents still want <br />greater transparency, <br />MUoTfi=%Mburie.com/printarticle/?*ld= 13 6173 678 1/3/2012 <br />