Members of the Rutland City Police Commission will meet tonight in the Jessica Ebbighausen conference room at the city’s police department, named in honor of the young officer-in-training killed during a high speed chase in 2023.

It's fitting, said Commissioner Peg Flory, as she plans to demand more answers at the meeting about a scathing internal affairs report that finds Ebbighausen's death could have been prevented.

The 19-year-old officer-in-training was driving a police cruiser on July 7, 2023, when she was struck head on by Tate Rheaume. Rheaume had been fleeing another officer. He's since been charged with aggravated murder and his case is pending.

But an internal affairs investigation made public last week finds mistakes made by veteran Rutland City police officers played "dir

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