In a meeting organized by local interfaith church leaders, a panel of Humboldt County’s top law enforcement officers addressed concerns this afternoon about the Humboldt County jail’s release policy. Marketed as a general community safety discussion, the meeting arose out of criticism of the jail’s policy to release inmates detained for being drunk in public during late-night hours — but passions were clearly still high over the killing of Father Eric Freed, who was named by multiple community members and remembered in a moment of silence following the meeting.
Sheriff Mike Downey addressed the jail’s policy in the Journal article “Dead of Night,” and reiterated his office’s stance that people detained for being drunk or on drugs must be released when they’re determined sober by jail staff. Holding them longer would violate their constitutional rights, he told the crowd.
During the moderated response to community questions, jail Capt. Ed Wilkinson told the crowd that six other counties around California hold inmates until daylight hours before releasing them — four of them citing a lack of transportation options in the middle of the night. Wilkinson said he was hoping to get more information about those jail policies.
More perspective on the meeting, including responses to many community questions, can be found here.
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Father Eric Freed really may have been killed because of the documentation he was gathering and his work exposing the horror of genicide. He was talking about an issue in regards to Gospel Outreach’s Lighthouse Ranch connection involving the genocide of 250,000 catholic indians by Jose Efraim Rios Montt. I helped baptise him at the beach with the pastor in the late 70’s. He poisoned me when I saw him as a fraud. I have been disabled ever since. The PTL clubs Pat Robertson was behind getting Bush and Reagan to back Montt. It was over the diamonds in the ground that were under the feet of the native villagers. Montt was made a fake priest to be sent down and get voted in as a dictator. The election was a CIA set up. The CIA had infiltrated the christian hippie commune,kicking many honest missionaries types out,killing some,etc. I was spared due perhaps in part that my aunt and uncle (state dept.employed w CIA) brought Montt here to Loleta’s lighthouse while together on vacation or so they said. They pulled one over on me and when things didn’t seem right,I was sent away to a fake mission. and he had poisoned me. Its taken all of these years to recover to a point of realizing this. Now my mission is to warn what happened. My church has since been bussy deleting the connections to Verbo ministry and comments about what a great guy this Brg . General montt is. He is a genocidal maiac that had sex with an under aged girl. Words for you all to think about as am very ill and I’m I dieing. I still hold Eurekans in my hart in prayer and hope someone will pick up where Father Freed was at and continue to carry the touch for the victums and for the truth that my church forgot was there calling to uphold. And as far a the spiritual issues here too,souls are lost because of what the leaders did at the lighthouse and at our government. Pray for Freeds family and the cause. Pray for me,also. Peace.