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ByAmandaLeeMyers TheAssociatedPress LOS ANGELES Police offi- cers in the California des- ert city of El Centro repeat- edly ignored signs of med- ical distress in a man they suspected of being a drug dealer, even telling a 911 dispatcher to ignore calls from his family for help, ac- cording to a video released Thursday on a judge's order. Hours later, the man was dead from methamphet- amine intoxication. The video was taken by cameras worn by El Centro police officers who pulled over 57-year-old Charlie Sampson on Dec. 3, 2013. It was released Thursday fol- lowing a judge's Aug. 31 rul- ing that cited public inter- est in police dealings with minorities and law enforce- ment's use of body cameras. "I am still shaking from watching this video. I am literally stunned," said Cha- ris Kubrin, a criminologist at the University of Califor- nia at Irvine who teaches about police use of force. The 15-minute video, ed- ited down from hours of footage and released by the Sampson family's attorneys, begins with police pulling Sampson over before put- ting him in the back of a patrol car without being handcuffed. Shortly after, Sampson is shown surrep- titiously putting something in his mouth — metham- phetamine, according to his family's attorney. At various points over the course of the next two hours as police searched his home and questioned him about where the drugs were, Sampson is shown barely able to stand, speaking unintelligibly, struggling to breathe, moaning and drenched in sweat, though he's outside and complain- ing of the cold. VIDEO Offi ce rs ignored dying man's distress By Judy Lin The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Califor- nia wants more drivers to dump the pump. Under new climate change legislation Gov. Jerry Brown signed Wednesday, the most pop- ulous state in the nation is encouraging major utili- ties to compete as an alter- native transportation fuel source by installing thou- sands of charging stations where people live, work and play. The new law, SB350, re- quires the state to boost re- newable electricity use to 50 percent and double the energy efficiency of exist- ing buildings by 2030, al- though Democratic leaders were forced to drop a key provision that would have pushed the state to cut oil use by half. California is already on target to generate at least a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020; now state regulators will set efficiency targets for the 10 years after that. One of the key ways state officials hope to cut greenhouse gas emissions is by encouraging resi- dents to fuel their cars and trucks with electric- ity, a move that environ- mentalists say will pit util- ities against oil companies in the marketplace. "It basically tells the electric industry to go eat the oil industry's lunch," said Max Baumhefner, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Coun- cil. While oil companies drew attention for their ag- gressive lobbying against the oil mandate in the original legislation pro- posed by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D- Los Angeles, California's largest private utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edi- son and San Diego Gas & Electric — were also lobby- ing the Brown administra- tion, lawmakers and state regulators for provisions to boost the electric vehi- cle charging market. During the first half of the year, the three pri- vate utilities spent about $2 million lobbying state government on dozens of bills, including SB350. The oil companies did not oppose the goal of in- creasing electric power but point out that the state al- ready has policies to di- versify transportation fuel sources. "We need to make sure Californians can move about our state and have access to reliable, afford- able energy," said Cathe- rine Reheis Boyd, presi- dent of the Western States Petroleum Association, which represents oil com- panies. FUEL FIGHT Br ow n gr oo ms u ti li ti es to compete with Big Oil RICHPEDRONCELLI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Television crews report at the scene where Paris train hero Spencer Stone was found stabbed in Sacramento on Thursday. By Don Thompson and Julie Watson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, cele- brated as a hero for helping to stop a terror attack on a French train over the sum- mer, was stabbed and se- riously wounded outside a bar in his hometown early Thursday in what police said was an alcohol-related brawl. Stone, 23, was knifed repeatedly in the upper body but was expected to survive, authorities said. He was taken to UC Davis Medical Center. "This incident is not re- lated to terrorism in any way," Deputy Police Chief Ken Bernard said. "We know it's not related to what occurred in France months ago." A grainy surveillance video from a camera out- side a liquor store showed a man who appeared to be Stone fighting with sev- eral people at an intersec- tion. The group spilled into the street as people took swings at each other, and one person got knocked down. Police said two assail- ants fled in a car. No imme- diate arrests were made. Bernard said Stone was out with four friends when they got into a fight with another group of people. The deputy chief would not say what sparked the ar- gument. He said there was no evidence the assailants knew who Stone was. Bernard said he did not know whether Stone was drinking, but others in his group were. In a statement, the hos- pital said Stone's family "appreciates the outpour- ing of love and support" and requests privacy. In August, Stone and two of his childhood friends from Sacramento, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college stu- dent Anthony Sadler, were vacationing in Europe when they sprang into ac- tion aboard a Paris-bound passenger train and tack- led Ayoub El-Khazzani, a man with ties to radi- cal Islam. He had boarded the train with a Kalash- nikov rifle, a pistol and a box cutter. Stone, who is assigned to Travis Air Force Base in California, suffered a severely cut thumb and a knife wound to his neck during the struggle with the gunman. President Barack Obama met with the three Amer- icans last month, praising them for their quick think- ing and courage and call- ing them "the very best of America." US airman who thwarted Fr en ch t ra in at ta ck s ta bb ed BAR INCIDENT Showing Oct. 10 TH & 11 TH Sat. 9-5 • Sun. 10-4 61st Annual Shasta Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. 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