Anchorage Assembly leaders say they want to question former police chief after release of emails preceding his departure.
Asked to explain why he resigned, McCoy said there was “not one specific reason.”
While Bronson administration officials had previously acknowledged the fluoride shutoff, the new records released this week add weight to a second element of the Landmine’s report, which alleged that Bronson’s office ordered McCoy to have officers rescue the man with COVID-19, “and/or compel medical providers to treat the man with Ivermectin.”that appear to reference Danny O’Barr, who was being treated at a facility run by Providence Alaska.
They also lack any reference to a request or demand by Bronson administration officials that the man be treated with ivermectin — a possibility that was suggested, though not expressly alleged, by the Landmine’s report. “The records aren’t there to prove it, but I think we can assert effectively that the Landmine got the gist of it right, that there was something happening there, and when they denied it, that was a big fat lie,” Constant said.
In a phone interview with the Daily News, Shower said he received a report that O’Barr was dying from COVID-19 and that his wife, former Wasilla City Council member Gretchen O’Barr, couldn’t get access to him. The Landmine’s report about O’Barr surfaced near the tail end of the state’s worst COVID-19 surge, which saw hospitals across the state activating crisis standards of care and Anchorage doctors making unprecedented choices about patient care.some of the city’s hospitals, including Providence, for requiring vaccines — making any municipal intervention in hospital or health care operations an especially sensitive proposition.