At 10:03 PM 8/8/02 -0700, Barbara Lickness wrote: >I think placing calls to the police federation or >Natalie Johnson Lee by people on this list only serves >to fan the flames and make a bad situation worse. I >certainly don't feel like it's my job to take the >police federation to task on behalf of Natalie Johnson >Lee. She hasn't asked us to help defend her. She is >perfectly capable of defending herself if she feels >the need. I did not call the Police Federation because I was trying to defend Natalie Johnson Lee. She is quite capable of doing that for herself. I called and left a message expressing my feelings about the leadership of the Federation using this situation to score political points. These people are seasoned political veterans. They knew exactly what they were doing.
>This has been a tough week on a lot of people. The >police, the mayor, the city council, the police >federation, the residents of horn towers, the family >and friends of Melissa Schmidt, the family and friends >of Martha Donald, and any or all of us who care about >any of these people. > >Can we agree that emotions are heightened right now? >Can we forgive that someone may have overreacted >because they are grieving and their sensitivities are >heightened? More importantly, can we recognize they >are human? If that's the case, the federation would put out a statement that retracts some of what they said. Comparing Martha Donald to Timothy McVeigh is an outrageous comparison. The worst part of this is, as I said before, it's an insult to the memory of Melissa Schmidt, who tried to bring people together rather than tearing them apart. >I think the conjecture on this list about what really >happened that awful night, what kind of person Martha >Donald really was, what Natalie Johnson Lee really >meant in her e-mail, and what the response by the >police federation to the e-mail should have been or >not been is serving to make a bad situation even >worse. Why? I'm sure what's said on the list is nothing compared to the messages that were flying around the city of minneapolis email system the last few days. Eva Eva Young Near North Minneapolis _______________________________________ 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
