You Must Be Dreaming

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Lucretia Pecantte, a lawyer for the family, said those differences shouldn’t influence authorities’ determination of whether the shooting was justified. A local family waves at the crowd while traveling along the parade route. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo)

Michael’s mother and aunt, Sable Alex, say they witnessed the shooting in the living room of their home. Although some details of their accounts differ, both said Michael wasn’t armed and never posed a threat before one of the deputies shot him once in the chest.

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The singer, Barbara Noel, told the painful, shameful, sordid story in her 1992 book, “You Must Be Dreaming,” written with Kathryn Watterson. And, because pain, shame and sordidness are the stuff of which TV dreams are made, it’s no surprise to find that NBC’s movie tonight is “Betrayal of Trust” (9 p.m. on Channels 4 and 39), based on Noel’s book. Michael later told a judge he was “out of it” at the time of the incident, according to a transcript of the hearing where he pleaded no contest to the charges. “Tell them I am sorry,” he said of the deputies. The real scary thing is this; There are thousands of people like Masserman who abuse their positions of authority every day and get away with it, doctors, lawyers, teachers, bosses, parents. And there's very little the average person can do to defend themselves. Barbara Noel worked tirelessly and spend thousands in her pursuit to punish this criminal and she only received meager justice, very meager.

Higgins said in December that the department has administered crisis intervention training for its corrections and patrol officers at least four times since 2014. Higgins wouldn’t tell the AP whether either deputy involved in Noel’s shooting received the training. Noel’s killing appears to fit a troubling, tragic pattern. Deadly confrontations between law enforcement officers and people with mental illnesses have remained a persistent problem for years, but experts see anecdotal evidence and limited data that suggests the problem has worsened as governments dismantle networks of health care services. Boy Scout Troop 1 participates in Saturday’s Goleta Old Town Holiday Parade. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo)

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Alex said Michael, shaking from the stun gun’s jolts, began shuffling toward one of the deputies, who told him to stop before shooting from several feet away. Noel, however, said the deputy was standing behind her son when he reached over Michael’s right shoulder, pointed the gun downward at his chest and shot him at point-blank range. This year’s Goleta Old Town Holiday Parade was presented by Fuel Depot and the Elks Lodge. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo) The Santa Barbara Noël Carolers sing before the parade Saturday. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo)