I've been following a discussion about a party where the police where accused of, among other things, macing a baby. I was able to locate the case and read the reports related to the incident. What actually happened was that police were called by several neighbors about a party with loud music. Police reported that they could hear the music a half a block away from the house as they drove up. They talked with the occupants of the house and told them to turn down the music as it was disturbing the neighbors. The occupants turned down the music. As soon as the police left, the music was turned back up again - this according to the neighbors who had to call 911 again. The police returned and again asked them to turn down the music and warned them that they would have to make arrests if the music wasn't turned down and kept down. One of the occupants became belligerent, told the police that they could go ahead and arrest him because he wasn't going to turn down the music. When they attempted to arrest him the officers were attacked by several of the occupants. This attack included kicking and punching the officers. The crowd of people were maced when they came out of the house, surrounded the officers while they were attempting to make the arrests and appeared to be ready to attack also. They finally were able to take three people into custody and get the group calmed down. One of the arrested people agreed to calm the group down. For this the Officers gave that person a citation rather than take them into custody. No children were maced.
Don Greeley Crime Prevention Specialist 3rd Precinct CCP/SAFE Minneapolis Police Dept. 217 So 3rd St. Mpls. MN. 55401-2139 (612) 673-3482 - (612) 673-3563 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report graffiti, possible housing code violations, etc http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/inspections If you would like to receive weekly crime stats for the Central Neighborhood address an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds to be." Abraham Lincoln _______________________________________ 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
