Walnut Creek council to review police response during protests

The Walnut Creek City Council on Tuesday night will hear a report on how law enforcement responded to vandalism, looting and various protests in that city from May 30 through June 5 — a response that, especially during a June 1 protest that spilled onto Interstate 680, included tear gas and an attack by a police dog.

At the council’s June 9 meeting, Mayor Loella Haskew asked City Manager Dan Buckshi and Police Chief Tom Chaplin for reports on police response to both the Black Lives Matter protests and the June 2, 2019, death of Miles Hall near the Hall family’s home in a quiet neighborhood south of downtown. The family told police Miles was having a mental health-related episode, but the 23-year-old Hall — who was wielding a steel rod he would not drop — was shot and killed by police.