Thursday, September 8, 2011

Blackern’ a blacksmith’s apron or Bum Steer?

TX - An emergency city council meeting in Bandera turned into a showdown with the police chief Wednesday night. Council member Maggie Schumacher publicly accused a police lieutenant of bugging the municipal building, an allegation Chief Jim Eigner denies.

"He (Lt. Neil McLean) said, 'we tape everything in this building.' He said this is a public building and we tape everything,'" Schumacher said.

Schumacher was referring to a conversation she had with Lt. McLean earlier today at the police department. A computer tech was there to make a backup of the entire police department computer system and Schumacher says Lt. McLean resisted. She called the Bandera County Sheriff's Office to step in. (more)

You decide.