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WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE
Lawsuit
filed in
2017 RP
pot case
Man says civil rights
violated when officers
seized marijuana
By JULIE JOHNSON
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PARADISE from a Humboldt County farmer.
resident Donald Trump toured the damage Flatten, who goes by Zeke,
wrought by California’s deadliest wildfire spurred other Highway 101 mo-
Saturday, visiting the ruins of a mobile torists to step forward with al-
home park and pressing his argument that the legations of being wronged by
state’s forests must be managed more aggressive- Rohnert Park police when he be-
ly to prevent future disasters. gan speaking out about his case.
With the death toll from the Camp fire rising, His lawsuit names Huffaker
Trump met with Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and and Hobb as the officers who
toured the charred wreckage of took the 3 pounds of marijuana
INSIDE the Skyway Villa Mobile Home from his SUV. They did so in an
Many of Malibu’s and RV Park. They passed a de- illegal search without properly
rehab centers stroyed home where someone identifying themselves or docu-
destroyed in had hung an American flag and KENT NISHIMURA / LOS ANGELES TIMES menting the stop, according to
Woolsey fire / A7 picked their way past a downed FIRE DESTRUCTION: The Cypress Meadows Post-Acute skilled nursing facility in Paradise lies in ruins. the 11-page complaint filed Fri-
streetlamp and other debris. day in U.S. District Court in San
H
Saturday, bringing the total number of dead to 76. The fire is coming fast. Help is not. Clearlake Police Department,
He also released the name of a sixth victim who ow do you evacuate a nurs- Staying at the Cypress Meadows said he did not know about the
had been identified: Lolene Rios, 56, of Paradise. ing home when the deadliest Post-Acute center in Paradise is not an lawsuit and denied any involve-
Another 1,276 people remain missing, although wildfire in California history is option. Sheltering in place means cer- ment in Flatten’s stop.
that list likely includes duplications and errors. bearing down and there are 91 men and tain death for the 30 or so staff members “I’m not going to comment
women to move to safety — patients in on that because you guys don’t
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