i'm sorry. >> >> the appellant had an attorney representing him at one time. >> mr. shane is individual he can't afford a legal council that's why i'm standing here my i'll. >> there's something in the brief about the acceptance of the permit and siding. >> mr. shane was not sure he retained council if i may; right? >> and so that letter is about did that reflect his current wishes. >> not his current wishes. >> okay. thank you we can hear from the permit holder no

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. >> mr. shane is individual he can't afford a legal council that's why i'm standing here my i'll. >> there's something in the brief about the acceptance of the permit and siding. >> mr. shane was not sure he retained council if i may; right? >> and so that letter is about did that reflect his current wishes. >> not his current wishes. >> okay. thank you we can hear from the permit holder now. >> good afternoon, commissioners and the board james for the joining project sponsor that is fox properties on third avenue it is fairly simple nicole a situation whereas i described in my briefing to the commission where the overlap of redwood siding by the aluminum siding adds one eight of on manipulative no showing by the appellant of any sort of enrollment open the property line in fact that a situation where the repeated necessities of getting both the backyard of the jane landowner with or attempted to be eliminate or slowed down instead of every four or five years to we paint but put in aluminum siding

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shane. >> thank you mr. chairman. i won't repeat all of the eloquent statements that have been made but i want to reiterate what has been said about the leadership or new senator cardin senator menendez and senator came relative to getting an agreement on this legislation. i think as you have said it's not only important to the future of the foreign relations committee and a very important work that we should be doing but i think it also sends a very important signal to the people of this country that we can work together on big issues to address common problems that face the country and we should be doing that as often as possible in the future. i just want to congratulate you again for the great work that you have done and i do intend to support this legislation. >> senator johnson. >> mr. chairman i also thank the chairman and the people that i work on this agreement. i understand it's been a tough row to go and your challenge in trying to accomplish creating legislation that could get bipartisan support and overco

organizer here in new york and john shane an associate professor at john jay college and retired captain with the newark new jersey police department. phillip, why is mr. gray dead? >> i wish i knew. we had a team on the ground when news of the death came out. we were surveying officers as part of what we do to create an evidence base in here. we had an opportunity to speak with officers confidentially and to speak with residents in baltimore. what we heard from people was that it is not uncommon during transport for people in lots of cities not to get seat belts. in fact in some cities they don't even have a divider. they don't even have anything you can hold on to. that means if you resisted or weren't eager to get into the police van you're going to be handcuffed and the phrase that came up much often was gently tossed weith with no ability to know when sharp turns are coming and no ability to brace yourself and it's often a dangerous ride. >> so i hear you and clearly there's something going on with what happened in the van but i guess for me part of my question is whether or not by focussing on the van ride we're missing that the first set of inj