Terrell Brown wrote:
> [TB] Maybe they figured out that it doesn't matter? The Lavender piece
> seemed to be looking for a court case on survivor benefits which
> apparently won't happen.
>
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> Terrell Brown
> Loring Park
> Terrell at terrellbrown dot org
I think I understand what you mean ("Hallelujah, no one cares if you're
straight or gay or white or black or whatever"), but I think it does matter.
Reading the mainstream press, I didn't feel like I got to know who Officer
Schmidt was. When the St. Paul officers were killed in 1995 (which is the
last time I lived in a town when officers died on duty), I thought the
papers did a great job of giving us a real sense of who those men were.
When Officer Schmidt died, it was as if the papers didn't know what to do.
"Oh, that's really a privacy issue," is what they alway say. It's no more a
privacy issue than that she was a basketball stand-out or Packers fan or
liked sushi.
It would be fascinating to watch a court case regarding national, state, and
local survivor benefits, but I hope it never comes to that.
--DeAnna Miller
Corcoran neighborhood
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