Pepper-spraying of teens sparks angry confab

A crowd of West Marin residents filled the Dance Palace and spilled out the door Wednesday evening for a community meeting to discuss Park Service rangers’ pepper-spraying of a teenaged brother and sister in Point Reyes Station July 28.

Before the crowd was given a chance to voice their concerns, Point Reyes National Seashore Supt. Don Neubacher, who had convened the meeting, offered a series of reassurances:

• Neither of the rangers, Roger Mayo or Angelina Gregorio are at this time working in the National Seashore.

• The District Attorney’s Office has been asked by the park to conduct a review of the case separate from the Park Service’s internal investigation.

• The Park Service has asked the Sheriff’s Department to take another look at a Sept. 21 incident when ranger Mayo turned a garden hose on motorcyclists northbound on Highway 1 in front of his Park Service home in the Olema Valley....