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(CNN) -- President Barack Obama will make his first overseas trip since taking office at the end of this month, visiting England, France, Germany and the Czech Republic, the White House said Thursday.

President Obama wil travel with first lady Michelle Obama to four European nations in the coming weeks.

The trip is scheduled from March 31-April 5.

Obama, who will be joined by first lady Michelle Obama, will first visit London, where he will attend a summit with other world leaders.

He is to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on April 3.

Obama will also attend NATO summit meetings in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, then travel to Prague, Czech Republic, to meet with Czech leaders and leaders of other European Union nations.

His first trip outside the United States was to Canada last month.

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(CNN) -- At an auction at a gallery in New York recently, a piece of artwork sold for a higher price than had been anticipated by the auctioneers: $4,080.

It wasn't a very big piece of art -- just 8-by-10 inches. Technically, it wasn't even art. It was a glossy black-and-white photograph. It had a slight imperfection: there were staple holes in the upper left-hand corner.

Someone had written all over the front of the photograph. The person who had scrawled on it was, in fact, the subject of the photograph. He had written:

"To Patricia Keating, with very best wishes, John Kennedy"

That is what made the photo so valuable to someone: Kennedy had held it in his hands, had run his pen over it. The owners of Swann Galleries, where the signed photo was auctioned, believe that Kennedy had autographed the picture in 1956, when he was a United States senator. The picture itself wasn't worth much; but his signature, personalized to Patricia Keating. ...

"As far as we know, she wasn't anyone famous," Rebecca Weiss, a Swann Galleries employee, told me on the day after the auction. "There's no particular significance to her name."

Then why would someone pay more than $4,000 for the photo?

Weiss told me that the identities of the buyers and sellers at Swann auctions are kept confidential, so she could not disclose who had consigned the photo for sale, or who had purchased it. But she said there is a pretty safe rule of thumb about the sale of autographs of renowned men and women:

"What people are buying is the mystique. They are taking home the autograph knowing that this person once actually touched this item, this person once actually left this imprint, this signature."

She clearly knows what she is talking about; just this weekend, it was announced that another auctioneer had sold what is purported to be perhaps the last autograph Kennedy ever signed: a copy of the Dallas Morning News that he reportedly signed for a woman upon his arrival in that city on November 22, 1963. A man in California purchased it for $39,000.

In our digital age, in which images and data are transferred from person to person with the tap of a key, it would seem to be an anachronism: the idea of placing enormous monetary value on pieces of paper upon which prominent individuals once wrote their names. But that personal touch seems to have remained precious; Weiss said that many, if not most, purchasers of autographed items display them as if they were rare paintings: framed and mounted in places of honor.

She didn't have to convince me. I have only two pieces of art hanging in my home, and neither would qualify as art in the conventional sense. But I wouldn't trade them for Picassos or Van Goghs.

The first is an original theater lobby poster for the greatest movie about newspapers ever made: 1952's "Deadline -- U.S.A.", starring Humphrey Bogart.

The other piece of art is an autograph -- actually, an entire (if brief) handwritten letter.

It is a thank-you note.

A thank-you note written to a laundry.

At the top of the piece of paper, embossed in the italics/script font style of 1950s suburban-housewife stationery, are the words:

"From the home of ... Elvis Presley"

And beneath it, in blue ballpoint pen:

"I should like to commend your Laundry for doing a fantastic job on my clothes, you show esceptional care. Sincerely E.P."

That's just how, while living in a house on Audubon Drive in Memphis, Tennessee, in the years before he moved to Graceland, he wrote it. "Laundry" capitalized in the middle of the sentence; a comma instead of a period after "clothes"; "esceptional" instead of "exceptional."

I can't imagine a more wonderful or telling artifact from Presley's life. Who writes thank-you notes to their laundries? The young Elvis, that's who. There's such an essential sweetness to it -- to the very fact of the letter, to the formality of his introduction ("I should like to commend..."), to the adjective he chose ("a fantastic job on my clothes"). I purchased the letter from a gallery two decades ago (for a price that made me bite the inside of my mouth), and I would rather own it than the Mona Lisa.

I was about to say that I would never part with it, but in fact I once did, for several months. An exhibit called "American Originals: Treasures from the National Archives" was touring the country, and was scheduled to make a long stop at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Included in the exhibit were the original Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Thomas Edison's 1879 patent application for the electric lamp and the instrument of surrender of the German High Command during World War II.

I thought Elvis belonged there, and persuaded the curators of the museum to accept his thank-you letter on loan. The National Archives said they would not object, so long as Elvis' note was not in the same room with the more austere documents.

It worked out fine; I thought Elvis would like it that way. He always was proud to be an outsider. In the hallway adjacent to the entrance to the main exhibit -- visitors saw it right as they walked in -- was Elvis' handwritten letter, in a display case, with a plaque that read:

"This note, written by Elvis Presley when he was on the verge of becoming a star, provides an example of how seemingly trivial documents can increase in value and cultural significance as a result of historic events. It also shows that despite his growing fame in the early 1950s, Presley cared about the feelings of others."

Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it? I can fully understand why someone in New York the other day would purchase the photograph that John Kennedy once signed for Patricia Keating, whoever she may have been. You don't have to be Patricia Keating to comprehend the value of that picture, just as you don't have to be Elvis' laundry to comprehend the value of that thank-you note.

Great art, like great beauty, is where you find it.

It is, as they say, in the eye -- or the laundry bag -- of the beholder.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.

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question: what does he say autographs allow an admirer to do

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Las Vegas (CNN) -- Weeks ago, Dan Wheldon was behind the wheel of a new prototype car for the IZOD IndyCar racing series -- one meant to make his sport safer, albeit ideally no less exciting.

The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, who'd been one of a handful of key collaborators in the safety effort as identified on the racing circuit's website, never got a chance to see the refined engines at work in a real race.

Instead on Monday, his friends, colleagues and the racing world were mourning his death following a fiery 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300.

"I lost one of my best friends, one of my greatest teammates," driver Tony Kanaan told reporters hours after Sunday's fatal crash.

"I know this is a dangerous sport. I know we're exposed to that every day, in normal life as well," he added. "But you know, you don't think about it. Today, we have to think about it."

Images from the fatal crash

Had he won Sunday's race, the Englishman with the ready smile and engaging manner would have earned a $5 million payout. Instead, he was near the back of the 34-car field when he got mixed up in a crash that featured numerous cars spinning out of control and bursting into flames, spewing smoke and debris.

"All I could see was fire and parts flying and smoke," recalled Paul Tracy, one of those involved in the crash, on Monday. "When it all came to a stop, it looked like something out of a movie set ... It didn't seem real."

An official at the Clark County Coroner's Office, who was not named per the office's policy, told CNN on Monday that Wheldon officially died from "blunt head trauma." The 33-year-old's death has been ruled an "accident."

Two other drivers seriously injured in the wreck -- J.R. Hildebrand and Pippa Mann -- were released Monday from University Medical Center in Las Vegas, IndyCar said in a release.

Mann had surgery Sunday night for a burn injury to a finger on her right hand, while Hildebrand was held overnight after suffering a severely bruised sternum. Championship contender Will Power was treated and released Sunday, IndyCar spokeswoman Amy Konrath said.

The violent crash raised fresh questions about safety, both in motor sports generally and at the Las Vegas track specifically.

Wheldon had been a driving force to address such concerns. In an early October story posted on IndyCar.com, the racing series' official website, IndyCar Vice President Will Phillips singled out the 33-year-old driver, his team and Italian manufacturer Dallara for their efforts to fine-tool a safer car model for the 2012 season.

"He's focused on what's been needed from him to provide for the feedback to Dallara and be consistent and concise," Phillips said then of Wheldon. "You couldn't have asked for more."

Wheldon was known as "a great family man"

Ironically, the new 2012 cars were expected to have components -- namely extra protection around tires -- to prevent spin-outs like the one that triggered Sunday's wreck when two vehicles' bump together, said Tracy.

"They want the cars to run a bit more in a pack, (but) these cars are not designed to bang wheels with each other at 225 mph," the veteran driver said. "Our wheels (currently) are exposed. Once you have two cars touch each other, you don't have any control."

Wheldon's death was the first for the IndyCar circuit since March 2006, when driver Paul Dana was killed in a two-car crash while warming up for the season-opening race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It is one of several in motor sports generally, one of the most famous being the elder Dale Earnhardt's death in NASCAR's 2001 Daytona 500.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim said Monday that the sheer speed of race cars, and the minimal distance separating them, means danger lurks around every turn and on every straightaway. Wheldon, for example, was bunched with several other vehicles cruising at about 220 miles an hour when Sunday's crash occurred.

"The fact of the matter is, you're dealing with very, very fast automobiles. They're not heavy cars," Wertheim said. "There is, unfortunately, an assumption of risk when you get into one of those race cars."

Beyond questions about racing's safety generally, the condition of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway -- and whether or not it was too fast and too crammed with vehicles -- was the subject of intense questioning in the hours after Wheldon's death.

Driver Dario Franchitti told ABC News that the track offered "nowhere to get away from anybody."

"This is not a suitable track, and we've seen it today," he said.

The loop in Las Vegas is 1.5 miles, one mile shorter than that of the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. At the same time, it is wider than many others -- such that more cars can run alongside, and potentially collide with, one another.

In an interview with CNN on Monday, former IndyCar driver Lyn St. James noted too that the slope of the track's curves and its straightaway can create "this momentum and this ability for all the cars to be able to go flat out, (which) really takes the car out of the driver's hands."

Not going as far as Franchitti in critiquing the Las Vegas oval, St. James said that a number of factors -- including the vehicles' speed and numbers, as well as the track's configuration -- came together "like the perfect storm."

"It was unfortunate, it was tragic, it was something we all wish would never have happened," she said of Wheldon's death.

Blog: Wheldon's death should bring changes in racetracks

That sentiment rang true for many in the racing community.

After the crash at the IZOD IndyCar World Championships, many of the remaining drivers were emotional during and after a five-lap salute in Wheldon's honor. The rest of the marquee event was canceled.

"There are no words for today," driver Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an IndyCar race in 2008, tweeted. "Myself and so many others are devastated. I pray for suzi (Wheldon's wife) and the kids that god will give them strength."

Wheldon, who was born in Emberton, England, lived in St. Petersburg, Florida. His father was a go-kart racer, and his mother was the timer at a local track. As a driver, Wheldon teamed up with the Alzheimer's Association to promote awareness of Alzheimer's disease; he was wearing the association's logo when he won the Indy 500 in May. His mother was diagnosed with the disease in 2009.

In North Carolina, Sven Bhem told CNN affiliate WGHP that his son-in-law -- who, just hours before this weekend's race, had sung him "Happy Birthday" over the phone -- wasn't "just a great driver, but he was a great human being," Bhem said. "He was always positive, always had something good to say about everybody."

He said Wheldon and his daughter had been married four years and have two sons, ages 2 1/2 years and 7 months.

In a statement released Monday, Wheldon's management company, GP Sports Management, described the driver as a "champion on the track and a devoted family man off it."

"Dan loved his fans and always took that extra bit of time to take a photo, to sign an autograph, to make some young kid smile at the racetrack. Everyone wanted to be around Dan. His passion and his enthusiasm for life was infectious."

St. James remembered Wheldon as a "brash kid from England" when he first began.

"We watched him mature into being this absolute, consummate professional," she said. "... He touched so many people."

She said she believes Wheldon's death will "kind of raise the bar" in terms of safety for drivers. While a number of safety measures are in place, and the sport will always be high-risk, "we don't want this kind of thing to happen," she said.

Tracy concurred, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he hopes "out of this tragedy, comes some good in terms of improving safety," like putting see-through glass in place of web-like netting around tracks.

The driver added that his wife and parents have implored him to retire in the wake of his friend's death. While he said he is considering it, Tracy also acknowledged that he and other racers aren't blind to the dangers.

"We're all thrill-seekers at heart, we all take risks on the race track," he said. "This sport isn't for everybody. (Nonetheless), obviously, we'd like to see improvement."

CNN's Greg Botelho and David Close contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Two teenage girls from Great Britain will fly home Thursday after spending a year behind bars in Ghana for drug-smuggling, the British High Commission in the west African country said.

The girls were stopped by customs officials at Accra trying to smuggle drugs back to Britain.

Ghanaian police arrested the teenagers, identified as Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, in July 2007 as they prepared to board a British Airways flight to London.

When officials searched their laptop bags as part of departure formalities, they found about 13 lbs (6 kg) of cocaine.

The girls, now 17, were 16 at the time of their arrest. They faced a maximum sentence of three years.

UK media have named the girls as Yatunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever of north London.

In January, a juvenile court in Ghana sentenced the pair to nine months in jail for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country.

At the time, a British Foreign Office spokesman said the teens would not have to serve the full sentence because they had already spent more than six months in custody.

But soon afterward, Ghanaian authorities changed their minds. The girls were housed in a correctional home for girls in the country's capital, Accra.

Fair Trials International, a UK-based group that provided legal assistance to the pair, called the girls "pawns in a larger operation."

Authorities in Ghana had said a man paid the girls Â£6,000 (about $11,700) to fly to Ghana to retrieve the laptop bags containing the drugs from two of his associates, according to the country's national news agency.

Those men have not been caught.

"The girls have served their full sentences, but the men who groomed them and lured them to Ghana remain free to target other vulnerable young women," said Catherine Wolthuizen, Fair Trials' chief executive, in a statement this week.

Ghana and other West African countries have become a transit point for drugs headed to Europe. The girls were arrested in a joint Britain-Ghana drug detection operation, the UK's customs agency said Wednesday.

CNN's Laura Maestro contributed to this report

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(CNN) -- More than two dozen times in the past three years, authorities came to Phillip and Nancy Garrido's ramshackle home at 1554 Walnut Ave. in Antioch, California, a rural property where Jaycee Dugard is said to have been confined for 18 years.

Jaycee Dugard was locked in a shed tucked under a blue tarp in her alleged captor's backyard.

And each time, they left without learning of the secret shed where Dugard lived.

The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to charges of abduction and forcible rape. They are being held without bail in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez, California.

After she was abducted in June 1991, at age 11, Dugard's disappearance spawned a massive search that continued, on and off, for almost two decades. Federal agents remained committed to the case, chasing thousands of leads.

But they apparently never had the Garridos on their radar.

The case of the missing girl evoked deep emotions that rippled across the South Lake Tahoe community. Strangers threw fundraisers and parades to raise money for search efforts. Friends and neighbors wore T-shirts bearing images of Dugard's smiling face to give the case exposure. Elementary school students toted signs that encouraged the community to stay committed to the hunt for their classmate.

All they wanted was to find little Jaycee Lee Dugard.

And for some of that time, authorities were visiting the home of the couple now accused of abducting her.  Watch an FBI agent talk about why clues were missed Â»

Interviews with public officials show that parole officers, law enforcement officials and firefighters visited the Garrido household but left without realizing that the kidnapped girl had grown to adulthood and was living in a soundproof shed hidden in the backyard.

Two Dozen Contacts

There were at least 16 visits from parole officers and seven by the fire department. There was also one by the sheriff's office responding to an allegation that people were living in the backyard. State and local authorities have now begun internal investigations to find out why none of these visits uncovered the existence of Dugard, now 29, and her children, Starlet, 15, and Angel, 11.

Their makeshift home of tents, tarps and sheds was tucked behind a 6-foot wall at the rear of the Garrido property.

"I feel confident the sheriff will use this as an example of how to do things better," said Federal Glover, a district supervisor for Contra Costa County who also heads the community's public safety committee. "From this lesson, we will not have this type of missed opportunity occur again."

One of the first red flags authorities might have caught was in 1993, two years after the kidnapping.

Garrido, who had been released from prison after serving 11 years for a 1976 kidnapping, violated his parole in April 1993. It is unclear what he did or how the violation was flagged. As a result, he was placed in federal prison for one month and then released on house arrest for three months. He returned to the Antioch home, where he lived with his wife and his elderly mother.

Violation Wasn't Reported to Nevada

But the parole violation was never reported to the state of Nevada, where the first kidnapping and rape had occurred, said Gail Powell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety.

"The state of Nevada would have taken some action," Powell said. "I don't know what, but some action could have meant putting him back in prison, pulling him off parole."

In 1999, the California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections agreed to take responsibility and authority for supervising Garrido's parole because he resided in that state.

Garrido's most recent parole agent visited the home at least twice a month since December, according to California corrections officials. Sometimes the visits were unannounced, said Gordon Hinkle, a department spokesman.

Parole officers also checked on Garrido frequently before 2008, Hinkle said, but he did not know how often or how many parole officers visited Garrido's residence.

The parole agent who most recently entered Garrido's backyard didn't notice any children's toys or items to indicate that minors were living in the house. The agent saw a shed but assumed it belonged to a neighbor.

"There was a deceptive false impression," Hinkle said. "If you were to be on the property walking around, you would have seen a big fence."

Parole Officers Carry Big Caseloads

Hinkle said the parole officer performed his duties appropriately. The parole officer was also responsible for raising suspicions when two University of California Berkeley officers notified him that Phillip Garrido came in with his "daughters." The parole officer called the Garridos in for questioning.

California has one of the highest parolee-to-officer ratios in the country. State budget cuts are expected to strain the department this year, which could mean reducing the number of parole officers, Hinkle said. The officer assigned to supervise Garrido was also responsible for 39 other sex offenders.

As recently as June, two months before Dugard was discovered with the Garridos, Contra Costa County firefighters responded to a fire on the property. They doused a car engine that had exploded into flames at the rear of the property, said department spokeswoman Emily Hopkins. They spent two hours there and then left.

They also visited Garrido's property in fall 2007, after a neighbor reported fire coming from the backyard. In addition, they responded twice in 2008 and three times in 2009 to medical emergencies involving Garrido's elderly mother, Patricia Franzen.

Fire department officials weren't sure whether more visits were made to the home, because computerized records date only to 2006.

Neighbors Steered Clear

Neighbors who had encounters with Garrido said they didn't take the time to get to know him. Some said they knew that he was a sex offender, so they steered away from his house. Others ignored him because they thought he was strange.

Betty Unpingco invited the entire neighborhood to her son's graduation party in spring 2006. She said Garrido attended and brought speakers for the party. When Unpingco and several adults noticed him talking to the high school girls, they asked him to leave. Later that night, she said, when they saw him waiting outside his home to speak to the girls, the adults escorted them home.

Feeling uneasy after the party, Unpingco checked the sex offender registry and found Garrido's picture.

"It was just so bizarre," said Unpingco, who has 10 children. "I warned my children to stay away from him and to always walk in twos." She did not notify police.

In November 2006, another neighbor did call police, saying she saw people living in tents behind the Garridos' house.

Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said he didn't think the deputy who responded knew at the time that Garrido was a sex offender. The deputy spoke to Garrido in his front yard about the allegations, but Garrido convinced him otherwise.

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text: three

text: months

text: He

text: returned

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text: Antioch

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text: wife

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text: parole

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text: state

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text: Nevada

text: where

text: the

text: first

text: kidnapping

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text: rape

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text: said

text: Gail

text: Powell

text: a

text: spokeswoman

text: for

text: the

text: Nevada

text: Department

text: of

text: Public

text: Safety

text: The

text: state

text: of

text: Nevada

text: would

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text: taken

text: some

text: action

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text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: what

text: but

text: some

text: action

text: could

text: have

text: meant

text: putting

text: him

text: back

text: in

text: prison

text: pulling

text: him

text: off

text: parole

text: In

text: the

text: California

text: Department

text: of

text: Rehabilitation

text: and

text: Corrections

text: agreed

text: to

text: take

text: responsibility

text: and

text: authority

text: for

text: supervising

text: Garrido

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text: parole

text: because

text: he

text: resided

text: in

text: that

text: state

text: Garrido

text: 's

text: most

text: recent

text: parole

text: agent

text: visited

text: the

text: home

text: at

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text: twice

text: a

text: month

text: since

text: December

text: according

text: to

text: California

text: corrections

text: officials

text: Sometimes

text: the

text: visits

text: were

text: unannounced

text: said

text: Gordon

text: Hinkle

text: a

text: department

text: spokesman

text: Parole

text: officers

text: also

text: checked

text: on

text: Garrido

text: frequently

text: before

text: Hinkle

text: said

text: but

text: he

text: did

text: not

text: know

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text: or

text: how

text: many

text: parole

text: officers

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text: parole

text: agent

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text: most

text: recently

text: entered

text: Garrido

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text: backyard

text: did

text: n't

text: notice

text: any

text: children

text: 's

text: toys

text: or

text: items

text: to

text: indicate

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text: in

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text: house

text: The

text: agent

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text: a

text: shed

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text: assumed

text: it

text: belonged

text: to

text: a

text: neighbor

text: There

text: was

text: a

text: deceptive

text: false

text: impression

text: Hinkle

text: said

text: If

text: you

text: were

text: to

text: be

text: on

text: the

text: property

text: walking

text: around

text: you

text: would

text: have

text: seen

text: a

text: big

text: fence

text: Parole

text: Officers

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text: Big

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text: Hinkle

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text: the

text: parole

text: officer

text: performed

text: his

text: duties

text: appropriately

text: The

text: parole

text: officer

text: was

text: also

text: responsible

text: for

text: raising

text: suspicions

text: when

text: two

text: University

text: of

text: California

text: Berkeley

text: officers

text: notified

text: him

text: that

text: Phillip

text: Garrido

text: came

text: in

text: with

text: his

text: daughters

text: The

text: parole

text: officer

text: called

text: the

text: Garridos

text: in

text: for

text: questioning

text: California

text: has

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: highest

text: parolee

text: to

text: officer

text: ratios

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: State

text: budget

text: cuts

text: are

text: expected

text: to

text: strain

text: the

text: department

text: this

text: year

text: which

text: could

text: mean

text: reducing

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: parole

text: officers

text: Hinkle

text: said

text: The

text: officer

text: assigned

text: to

text: supervise

text: Garrido

text: was

text: also

text: responsible

text: for

text: other

text: sex

text: offenders

text: As

text: recently

text: as

text: June

text: two

text: months

text: before

text: Dugard

text: was

text: discovered

text: with

text: the

text: Garridos

text: Contra

text: Costa

text: County

text: firefighters

text: responded

text: to

text: a

text: fire

text: on

text: the

text: property

text: They

text: doused

text: a

text: car

text: engine

text: that

text: had

text: exploded

text: into

text: flames

text: at

text: the

text: rear

text: of

text: the

text: property

text: said

text: department

text: spokeswoman

text: Emily

text: Hopkins

text: They

text: spent

text: two

text: hours

text: there

text: and

text: then

text: left

text: They

text: also

text: visited

text: Garrido

text: 's

text: property

text: in

text: fall

text: after

text: a

text: neighbor

text: reported

text: fire

text: coming

text: from

text: the

text: backyard

text: In

text: addition

text: they

text: responded

text: twice

text: in

text: and

text: three

text: times

text: in

text: to

text: medical

text: emergencies

text: involving

text: Garrido

text: 's

text: elderly

text: mother

text: Patricia

text: Franzen

text: Fire

text: department

text: officials

text: were

text: n't

text: sure

text: whether

text: more

text: visits

text: were

text: made

text: to

text: the

text: home

text: because

text: computerized

text: records

text: date

text: only

text: to

text: Neighbors

text: Steered

text: Clear

text: Neighbors

text: who

text: had

text: encounters

text: with

text: Garrido

text: said

text: they

text: did

text: n't

text: take

text: the

text: time

text: to

text: get

text: to

text: know

text: him

text: Some

text: said

text: they

text: knew

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: a

text: sex

text: offender

text: so

text: they

text: steered

text: away

text: from

text: his

text: house

text: Others

text: ignored

text: him

text: because

text: they

text: thought

text: he

text: was

text: strange

text: Betty

text: Unpingco

text: invited

text: the

text: entire

text: neighborhood

text: to

text: her

text: son

text: 's

text: graduation

text: party

text: in

text: spring

text: She

text: said

text: Garrido

text: attended

text: and

text: brought

text: speakers

text: for

text: the

text: party

text: When

text: Unpingco

text: and

text: several

text: adults

text: noticed

text: him

text: talking

text: to

text: the

text: high

text: school

text: girls

text: they

text: asked

text: him

text: to

text: leave

text: Later

text: that

text: night

text: she

text: said

text: when

text: they

text: saw

text: him

text: waiting

text: outside

text: his

text: home

text: to

text: speak

text: to

text: the

text: girls

text: the

text: adults

text: escorted

text: them

text: home

text: Feeling

text: uneasy

text: after

text: the

text: party

text: Unpingco

text: checked

text: the

text: sex

text: offender

text: registry

text: and

text: found

text: Garrido

text: 's

text: picture

text: It

text: was

text: just

text: so

text: bizarre

text: said

text: Unpingco

text: who

text: has

text: children

text: I

text: warned

text: my

text: children

text: to

text: stay

text: away

text: from

text: him

text: and

text: to

text: always

text: walk

text: in

text: twos

text: She

text: did

text: not

text: notify

text: police

text: In

text: November

text: another

text: neighbor

text: did

text: call

text: police

text: saying

text: she

text: saw

text: people

text: living

text: in

text: tents

text: behind

text: the

text: Garridos

text: house

text: Contra

text: Costa

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: Warren

text: E.

text: Rupf

text: said

text: he

text: did

text: n't

text: think

text: the

text: deputy

text: who

text: responded

text: knew

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: that

text: Garrido

text: was

text: a

text: sex

text: offender

text: The

text: deputy

text: spoke

text: to

text: Garrido

text: in

text: his

text: front

text: yard

text: about

text: the

text: allegations

text: but

text: Garrido

text: convinced

text: him

text: otherwise

question: Officials visited Garrido home more than two dozen times in?

answer: the past three years,

text: the past three years,

question: Who did police visit?

answer: the Garrido household

text: the Garrido household

question: Garrido violated?

answer: his parole

text: his parole

question: Who checked up on Garrido at least twice a month?

answer: most recent parole agent

text: most recent parole agent

question: Who did officials visit?

answer: Phillip and Nancy Garrido's

text: Phillip and Nancy Garrido's

question: Phillip Garrido's parole officer checked up on him at least?

answer: twice a month

text: twice a month


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(CNN)  -- Calling law enforcement accounts "absurd," a Michigan attorney sued police Tuesday in the death of 7-year-old girl killed during a raid in Detroit.

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said members of the Detroit Police Special Response Team acted out of line when they conducted a raid on the family home of Aiyana Jones, who was severely burned and then killed by an officer's bullet. She died Sunday.

"This type of activity by a police force is unacceptable in America," Fieger said at a news conference in his office. "What is equally unacceptable is the cover-up that has occurred."

Fieger filed both state and federal lawsuits alleging gross negligence, a violation of civil rights and a conspiracy to cover up the violation of civil rights.

Detroit Assistant Police Chief Ralph Godbee has said that preliminary information indicated that officers approached the house with a search warrant for the girl's uncle in connection with the shooting of a high school student Friday.

Godbee said the officer's gun discharged accidentally inside the home after an altercation and physical contact with the girl's grandmother, Mertilla Jones.

Jones denied such an altercation Tuesday. Fieger said he plans to file another lawsuit for false arrest and accused the police of covering up their own mistakes by blaming the family.

Fieger said videotape of the incident shows that the shooting was not accidental. In an interview Monday, he told CNN affiliate WDIV that a crew was filming the raid for the A&E network's show, "The First 48." The program documents police investigations in the first 48 hours after a homicide.

Tuesday, Fieger recounted the events shown on the video that he said led to the girl's death. At times, he had to pause, his voice drowned out by sobbing family members.

Fieger said officers tossed a smoke bomb -- described by police as a "flash bang device" to distract occupants -- into the house, severely burning Aiyana, who was on the couch in the front room with her grandmother. She was then struck in the neck by a bullet fired from outside the house, he said.

Godbee has said he doesn't know how Fieger saw the video, according to WDIV.

"If Mr. Fieger has access to anything that would be evidence in this case, he should, as an officer of the court, get it immediately to the Michigan State Police, which will be investigating," he said in a statement.

Fieger said the police and the city owe apologies to the family, especially to Mertilla Jones for trying to blame her for her granddaughter's death. He said officers need to be held to account just as anyone else would.

"The people of the city of Detroit have got to believe the police will protect them, and not kill them," Fieger said.

"This is an opportunity to come together, not to tear us apart," he said. "Apologize now and we can start the road to healing."

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text: accounts

text: absurd

text: a

text: Michigan

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text: video

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text: said

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text: girl

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text: At

text: times

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text: had

text: to

text: pause

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text: voice

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text: sobbing

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text: bang

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text: house

text: severely

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text: who

text: was

text: on

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text: couch

text: in

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text: front

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text: grandmother

text: She

text: was

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text: neck

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text: bullet

text: fired

text: from

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text: house

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text: said

text: Godbee

text: has

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text: does

text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: Fieger

text: saw

text: the

text: video

text: according

text: to

text: WDIV

text: If

text: Mr.

text: Fieger

text: has

text: access

text: to

text: anything

text: that

text: would

text: be

text: evidence

text: in

text: this

text: case

text: he

text: should

text: as

text: an

text: officer

text: of

text: the

text: court

text: get

text: it

text: immediately

text: to

text: the

text: Michigan

text: State

text: Police

text: which

text: will

text: be

text: investigating

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text: a

text: statement

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text: said

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text: police

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text: the

text: city

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text: family

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text: to

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text: for

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text: to

text: blame

text: her

text: for

text: her

text: granddaughter

text: 's

text: death

text: He

text: said

text: officers

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: held

text: to

text: account

text: just

text: as

text: anyone

text: else

text: would

text: The

text: people

text: of

text: the

text: city

text: of

text: Detroit

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text: to

text: believe

text: the

text: police

text: will

text: protect

text: them

text: and

text: not

text: kill

text: them

text: Fieger

text: said

text: This

text: is

text: an

text: opportunity

text: to

text: come

text: together

text: not

text: to

text: tear

text: us

text: apart

text: he

text: said

text: Apologize

text: now

text: and

text: we

text: can

text: start

text: the

text: road

text: to

text: healing

question: What Fieger says police?

answer: Special Response Team acted out of line when they conducted a raid on the family home of Aiyana Jones,

text: Special Response Team acted out of line when they conducted a raid on the family home of Aiyana Jones,

question: who was murdered

answer: Aiyana Jones,

text: Aiyana Jones,

question: who claim gross negligence and conspiracy to cover up a civil rights violation?

answer: Geoffrey Fieger

text: Geoffrey Fieger

question: who was in the raid

answer: Detroit Police Special Response Team

text: Detroit Police Special Response Team

question: what caused the death

answer: officer's bullet.

text: officer's bullet.

question: what Attorney recounts events leading to girl's death that he said?

answer: Geoffrey Fieger

text: Geoffrey Fieger