Garden Grove City Councilman Joe DoVinh publicly raised concerns that the city’s police union has tried to improperly influence and intimidate him by demanding he apologise to the police chief amid controversial remarks he made in Vietnamese on a radio show.
“When a police officer from the police officer association tells me that the chief is demanding an apology from me, Joe DoVinh, that paints a target on my back, and I’ve said as much,” he said at Oct. 28 Garden Grove City Council meeting.
“What if I don’t apologize, Chief? What if I don’t apologize, police officer association? What are you going to do to me? Huh? Come to my house, slash my tires like somebody did two weeks ago,” DoVinh said earlier in the meeting…