Terror visits Indian children in the night First let me apologize if the grammar in this post is a little skewed. After sitting and standing guarding a family through the night ones thoughts may be slightly incoherent.
On Wednesday June 3 Mayor Rybak, City Councilpersons, Chief Olson, and other law enforcement officials came together with community leaders to plan a strategy to attack the endemic drug and crime problems on Franklin Avenue. This conference came too late to help six small children and a mother who were terrorized by drug gangsters on that same night however. This was the same family I reported on who were terrorized over the Memorial Day holiday. A large rock was hurled through the window of the house while the children and their family slept at 3:00AM. On the side door was taped another letter threatening to kill the family. This time inside the letter were bullets with the reminder that it could have been those bullets coming through the house. Most of you and surely your children have never experienced the fear of waking in the middle of the night to the shear terror of being killed in your sleep. Think for a moment of your children and the effect of such terror. Put yourself in the place of the mother clutching her children, while they cried and screamed that they were going to be killed. Safe in your homes I am sure most of you cannot even imagine such horror. This horror does exist today and not in some far off country, it happens in Minneapolis, in the Phillips neighborhood, in a country that is supposed to protect its children. My question to all of you is -- what are you going to do about it? A fellow list member commented after my Memorial Day post that he was amazed that it received so little comment. According to him that post was, "like a stone thrown into a pond that hit, but left no ripples". Isn't it time for a little outrage, a little moral outrage to take place. I ask that each of you to close your eyes and think of a child peacefully asleep in bed, when suddenly that very loud crash comes, startled the child wakes screaming, in their hearts knowing it's the drug gangsters coming to shoot them in their beds, listen to the fear, look at the terror on their faces. Now replace that face with the face of YOUR child, your niece or nephew, your grand child. Does this help you to feel a little more outrage? Does this help you to feel a little more shame that you do nothing to protect that child in your city? I ask that the landlords who read this give some assistance to the children. They and their family have nowhere to go other than to a shelter tonight. If one of you has an apartment that they might rent, please contact me and I will pass it along to them. The landlord who rented this house to them, (without telling them about its problems) may not care what happens to them, but I am sure there is a good rental property owner who would come to their assistance. They need at least a three bedroom house or apartment. As a neighbor I can say that they do not seem to be in anyway involved in any criminal activities and must pay their rent on time or the present landlord would have kicked them out long ago. Jim Graham, Ventura Village, (taking a few minutes off from sentry duty at the wars). ----- Original Message ----- From: Tamir Nolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: [Mpls] More Police Brutality in Phillips > With all of the discussion about the return of the > Gang Wars lately, a very disturbing article appears in > the May 29th issue of the Pulse. > > The article appears to be written by a woman who is > afraid to use her real name, and documents how she was > essentially brutalized and sexually assaulted by a > Minneapolis Police officer on May 22 around the area > of 16th Av S. and Bloomington aruond 7:30pm. I hope > some people take the time to read the article (I don't > have the link.) > > With all the recent posts about how Phillips is a > disastor area and needs more police presence, more > response from RT and so on, I think we need to be > reminded that the police are part of this problem and > probably not the solution. I think it should be > pointed out that some of the criminals are in fact > Minneapolis Police Officers and that they are one of > Minneapolis's Most dangerous gangs > > Tamir Nolley > 6-2, 61b > > _______________________________________ 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
