PORT ANGELES — Protesters with hand-made signs stood outside the Clallam County Courthouse on Monday wanting answers for the death of their friend Miles Eli Schulmeister.
They then went inside the courthouse and were addressed by two top county officials, leading to a longer meeting today.
The 3 p.m. meeting in the old courtroom of the historical County Courthouse on Lincoln Street is expected to include top city and county law enforcement and jail representatives, county administrative, juvenile services and prosecutorial officials, a high school representative and even an executive of the Peninsula Daily News.
Under discussion will be last week’s suicide of Schulmeister, 19, who had been jailed on suspicion of multiple counts of statutory rape, and the youths’ reaction to the involvement of law-enforcers.
They are also critical of Port Angeles police response to an incident on City Pier on Friday night which resulted in the paint-spraying of graffiti tributes to Schulmeister, epithets to police and the arrest of two teen-agers on vandalism charges.
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