I am not sure why this issue of police parking and the
abuse of power it implies has not yet been tied into
the Mpls police dept's FIFTH KILL OF THE YEAR (though
police might argue that three of those should not
count since they were mentally handicapped).
What ever happened to that old-fashioned movie-style
cop/"criminal" interaction where the cop does not
shoot to kill, but instead shoots to slow down or
incapacitate (though I would argue that they should
not be shooting).
There is obviously a very serious problem generating
steam in Mpls, and it is that the police are not being
held accountable, much less seriously questioned about
tactics and intentions.
Funny, but in this latest killing, the police were on
a drug buy, and no drugs were on the two "drug
dealers" or in their car, and when the apertment of
the dead man was searched they found "small amounts of
marijuana and metamphetamine"...I would suspect that
if the amount was anything over casual use levels that
it would have been reported.
We will brush aside police actions at highway 55, hard
times, sisters camelot, isag, etc...these all are
serious manifestations of police arrogance and
unaccountability.
Mpls police have killed 5 people this year.
This is unacceptable, and especially given the
circumstances of each killing. This is a real and
horrifying manifestation of the abuse of power which
rears it's ugly head by a cop parking on the sidewalk,
from a cop saying "i could give you a ticket for
that", from a cop driving on the median with his
brother in the car (just to impress him!!), from a cop
turning on lights to speed through a red light, from a
cop...
Cops are not being held accountable in minneapolis and
this has to change! this should start with the firing
of chief robert olson and a serious review of all
officers who have killed a person.
Can we please have a discussion on this list about
proper police conduct and how we can hold police
accountable for deviations from proper conduct?
jon kelland
bryant
--- Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regardless of what any pro police person says.
>
> Police abuse power.
>
> This is a very simple fact of life. I dont like
> it...tim connoly doesnt
> like it...and for some godforsaken reason, luther
> krueger is paid to (or
> chooses) to legitimatize it.
>
> How about some names?
> Amadou Diallo
> Malice Green
> A name i cant remember from South Minneapolis last
> week (30+ bullets?)
> Countless others...
>
> Need some more examples? How about driving 80 miles
> per hour through
> traffic and busy streets to catch an offender in a
> chase...Why are police
> held unaccountable for endangering the safety of
> residents, at times as
> much or more than individuals suspected of crime?
> This issue goes much
> further than the police just parking where average
> citizens are not
> allowed. This is about the abuse of power, and I am
> glad someone else
> brought it up.
>
> The fact is, in the eyes of police officers, people
> are seen as "potential
> offenders". They choose to refer to themselves as
> peace officers to
> persuade the common folk, aka the stupid idiots who
> see no other recourse
> but to put up with it, into not having a problem
> with their actions.
>
> This message comes from someone who has observed
> police injustice in
> several different ways. While I do not affiliate
> myself with the
> rentaprotesters who constantly assault police
> aggression of people, i
> believe such a cause has a place, because there
> arent too many people doing
> it. Ive listened to an officer say to me "I CAN DO
> WHATEVER I WANT".
> These things do not go in any job description in any
> place in this society.
> Especially not that of our boys in blue. YET, as a
> society, we put up with
> this abuse.
>
> Luther, while you may argue "I welcome any
> suggestions as to how we can end
> our department's systemic parking abuse".
>
> The question is, what the hell is anyone on the
> force going to do about it?
>
> Im tired of watching police forces all over the
> country use their badges as
> an excuse for "being the law" rather than enforcing
> it, which IS what they
> get paid to do. Its very simple.
>
> If police officers feel they are "damned if they do
> or dont" maybe they
> need to find a different line of work, and i
> guarantee you...then they will
> be expected to follow the same rules of everyone
> else.
>
> Robb Clarksen
> Still searching for a police force that conducts
> itself ethically.
> SE minneapolis
>
>
>
>
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