"Jenkins, Andrea D" wrote: > I'm sure that mentally ill people walk around all kinds of communities > creating distrubances and interrupting what might otherwise be a rountine > day for many officers. Those people are arrested, or better yet returned > home to families or transported to the hospital. Yet in Minneapolis these > very same unfortunate people are murdered in the street, particularily > People of Color. > Let me say this , there is no justification for this action. Every member of > this community should be outraged and should be speaking against a police > force that is killing our citizens.
There's a significant difference between a wallet and a machete. But we do need a citizens' review board to tell people what's significant and what's not. I don't know of any police department or law enforcement agency that has been able to police themselves properly in the long run without external accountability. Michael Atherton Prospect Park _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
