--- TekBandit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My response to that is that they should've stayed > indoors and turned on the TV or the radio. It's > like being in a war zone and going outside to see > what is going on... your going to get hurt. With a > police officer, their dealing with a crowd that is > about 10 to 1, and the larger the crowd gets, the > better chance that the officer is going to get > overwhelmed, possibly hurt or worse, killed. You > never know, there could be 9 people in the crowd > that just want to voice their opinions, but that > 10th person there could be someone that is looking > to hurt or kill someone.
First of all, I hardly find Wedge shoppers that threatening. Secondly, your reccomendation to stay indoors is hardly possible for people who live in a neighborhood where many if not most walk/bus/bike to work, doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, etc. whether they own a car or not because of their proximity to downtown. Many working people in this neighborhood don't even own cars though they own their homes and work wellpaying jobs downtown or at some location within an easily busable distance such as the Univeristy. This aside from the population of retirees and students who are often in the same situation. Thirdly and perhaps most pertinent is the absurd idea that the cops had any reason to feel any danger from the protestors in the situation that occurred along Willow by Loring Park. The police outnumbered the protestors by at least 20 to 1 and it was very clear, since they had the protestors corralled in a tight police circle. The police were armed and excercised the utmost stupidity in corralling the protestors, mostly young adults and teenagers, on top of the only pile of gravel in the neighborhood, the reconstruction of Willow St. Not exactly brilliant police work when they could have corralled them at several other locations as they had chased them around the neighborhood for some time. That the elderly woman I saw gassed was neither a threat nor a protestor but seemed to be the victim of a police officer gone gas happy was very distressing to me. She wasn't inside the circle of police where the police were gassing the protestors. Thanks, David Strand-Loring Park homeowner __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ 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
