In a message dated 2/25/03 8:23:55 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Regarding the story of under cover Officer Duy Ngo being shot four
> times (KMSP) by uniformed Officer Morrison. This wasn't the first time
> Officer Morrison shot someone accidentally. Not too long ago he shot a
> black 15-year old boy for carrying a BB gun.
>
(Keith says; My recollection is different: Report of man with gun outside
apartment building after midnight. Suspect, fleeing one officer, unknowingly
runs toward another officer. Suspect has realistic look alike (actual) weapon
in hand. Suspect gets shot.)
> I see patterns here. Both Ngo and the 15-year old were minorities.
> Morrison seems just a bit trigger happy with minorities.
> (Keith says; I see a pattern here, too. Your Rush to the basest, most
simplistic judgment. Is this critique, and condemnation, based on your
expertise in situations where you face armed suspects in dark alleys? Or your
mastery of Latte'/frappe's? Caffeinate the world, indeed!)
> In an unrelated story but still involving MPD where -- an allegedly
> psychotic woman accidentally hit and killed a jogger while MPD and a
> highway patrol car was pursuing her SUV. It turned out the patrol car's
> own video showed that MPD was at fault for ramming the woman's SUV,
> there by launching the SUV at the jogger. MPD department policy
> specified that their officers shouldn't ram the SUV in that situation.
> I guess that's another law suit us tax payers will end up covering,
> again.
> (Keith says; It is not like these officers were at the Internet cafe,
playing a realistic video game of a public danger. They had to make split
second decisions; and without a 'reset' button. They might have made an
error; the result was tragic. I doubt the officers were happy about it.)
> Now that Minneapolis has to trim's its fat, why not trim some of the
> MPD's liabilities, and enroll some QUALIFIED and intelligent officers.
> (Keith says; I do believe that the force could use more mocha in the
ranks. I would like to know how YOU are qualified to determine the force has
not "...some QUALIFIED and intelligent officers" ?
> --
> Thomas T. Thai / Whittier
> (Keith Reitman NearNorth)
>
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