This is so costly and disappointing. This is not how I want the City that I
love to operate. Things are out of hand. Something is very wrong with the way
police relate to the community The City government continues to support the
status quo.
The MPD, like many City departments, needs to be held accountable for its
actions. This will happen through citizen participation and citizen review. I
do not understand why the MPD seems so against citizen review. I have asked
employees of the MPD why officers are unwilling to cooperate and promote
citizen review. The answer I get is - citizens have not walked in police
officers' shoes.
I have been dragged into an alley two blocks from my home with a knife at my
neck and assaulted; I have been confronted with deadly weapons several times
while going about my daily business; I have had my life threatened while
simply working in my yard. I'm sure I am not unique in this. If it is the
MPD's belief that Minneapolis' citizens don't know what it's like to
regularly live through life-threatenting danger, they are wrong.
Last weekend two of my neighbors (and friends) were harassed by the MPD for
allegedly reckless driving on their BICYCLES (they deny it). One was cuffed
and brutalized to the point where he could not use his right had the next day
(he lost work). It took two squads and four officers to deal with these two
pacifists. This is not effective policing.
Things need to change in the way we allow our police to treat our citizens in
Minneapolis. I urge you to use your votes to effect this change.
Yours,
Robert Lilligren
Candidate for City Council
Ward 8, Phillips West
www.VoteRobert.com
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