WINONA, Minn. – A Winona police office caught up in a domestic violence case involving his teen-age daughter, Joshua Squires, has left the force. Details of his departure were cloudy. Police Chief Tom Williams declined to elaborate, saying it was a personnel issue. The city’s personnel manager, Debra Beckman, said she would look up Squires’ record only for a fee. Later however, pressed by Mayor Scott Sherman, who was responding to a citizen complaint, Beckman confirmed that Squires was no longer on the city payroll. She went no further. Squires, age 50, was once stationed at the high school as a uniformed officer, , although the School Board dissolved the position in 2020 to ease racial sensitivities among minority students. Squires is white. Also in 2020, Squires was stopped for drunken boating by a Wisconsin game warden. He forfeited his bond rather than contest the charge.
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