There is real comolexity todeal with around what happened in North Mpls.Iys not about "media image" or bashing police or denal that crime exists. I've been an inne city resident (grew up in suburb) for 35 yeara & have experienced crime. But, there's something wrong woth "criminalizing whole neighborhoods--& whole races.
If maninsream media would get off the defense & take a loook they would see it is standard procedure to tell every police shooting story from POV of police. Its disungenuous to say they WOULD have included witnesses IF not for violemce Aug 22nd. I was NOT met with ANY hostility when I went as a reporter to the Nside. Media IS important because it SHAPES workd views & opinions--& how we see/treat each other. In a democracy, no authority comes without accountability--but,police are the exception to this! ALL of us from ANY community should find that troubling. Various groups are calling for FEDERAL mediation w/the police to improve relations towards struggling q/poverty & crime are the legacies of racism and white supremacy we STILL have not faced and resolved.We could use Truth & Reconcilliation Commissions 9like that in post-apartheud S Africa) all over the US--INCLUDING Minnesota. Lydia Howwell, South 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
