Police harassment by the 90's hasn't stopped by any means. Many of
the taxi drivers that I work with often get ticketed for using the bus lane
by the 90's, though it is perfectly legal for them to do so. What happens
is the police will sometimes block off both entrances to the parking lot so
that there's no safe place to park, and then they'll ticket the cab, and in
some cases even tow the cab as the driver is going in to the bar to get the
customer. The only option we are left with is not serving the bar, which I
believe is a poor ethical decision. This also happens at bars along First
Avenue such as the Loon Cafe, where such an incident happened to me. Police
harassment happens at too many levels and to too many people.
At 08:09 PM 3/12/01 -0600, Tim Bonham wrote:
>Several years ago, it was reported that 95%+ of the jaywalking tickets
>issued by the Minneapolis Police were at one specific location: Hennepin
>Avenue near 4th St.
> This was before some of the current parking in that area was
>available, and customers at the Gay 90's used to park in the Mpls Library
>lot across the street, which was empty after the library closed. (And the
>meters there were cheaper than most of the nearby ramps.) The Minneapolis
>Police were basically hassling gays by giving them jaywalking tickets when
>they cut across the street to get to the parking lot, something that they
>never gave tickets for anywhere else in the city.
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