Amen Terrell! Where's the outrage for having city taxpayers paying these
huge damage awards and then having no disciplinary action taken against the
police officers who are responsible? It would be great to get commitments
from city council challengers and mayorial challengers to DEMAND
accountability if they are elected.
Gene Martinez
Minnehaha, Ward 12
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Terrell Brown
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:31 AM
To: Mpls-Issues
Subject: [Mpls] Mpls settlement of lawsuit against MPD
Last Friday the Minneapolis City Council once again
approved a cash settlement of a lawsuit involving the
Police Department. This time we paid out $300,000 for
a beating that the Police went out to Edina to carry
out.
I find it hard to believe that 4 Minneapolis cops,
with at least 1 Edina officer present at the time,
find it necessary to beat up on a kid (as I recall he
was 16 at the time) in order to make an arrest.
Why is it we are paying out 300 thousand dollars for
police wrong doing and the management of the Police
Department (i.e. Chief Robert Olson and Mayor Sharon
Sayles-Belton) doesn't take disciplinary action
against the officers. It seems that the city should
automatically, at a minimum, have a disciplinary
hearing anytime a payment is made for police
wrongdoing.
Terrell Brown
Loring Park
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