From: Louise Bouta [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, re jury duty. It is incumbent upon people who can to take their jury duty when asked. I know the people in Mpls are busy working and taking care of their families but when we can�t take our turns, this results in the people from the suburbs coming in to decide on police brutality and shooting cases which they know nothing of. They have never had the experience to know that all police officers are not always respectable and responsible. A person is supposed to have a jury of his peers.
>"In 1997, Storlie shot and wounded Lawrence Miles Jr., who was 15 at the time, in >south >Minneapolis after>Miles ran past him with a BB gun. Storlie shot Miles, believing the teenager was pointing a gun at his partner. Miles >and a friend were playing BB-gun tag in the 3600 block of Chicago Av. at 1:30 a.m. when that shooting happened." LB: I watched that case in court. I believe ALL the courts need to be watched. There were two blacks chosen to be on the jury, as I remember. Both were middle-class and from the suburbs. They had had no negative experiences with police and did not know if anyone had. One young, black male city resident was interviewed for jury duty and he asserted, as did the suburban members, that he would not let his experiences with the police (his were very negative, as you might know) cloud his judgment. He was not selected but the suburban people were. >Anyone who uses this incident to cast doubt on the abilities of Storlie are crazy. >The kid had a gun, LB: Miles did not have a jury of his peers. The jury found for the police. Anyone who believes the truth was respected is �well, I don�t call other people crazy. Another case: >>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. LB: The woman was running from mental health treatment, as most of us would if forced to endure it. I have been on my high horse before about what this disabling, very expensive treatment costs the taxpayer. Here is what an international group has to say today in planning for a world-wide �Fast for Freedom.� >>Governments and the mental health industry use extensive taxpayer funding, judicial edicts, and repressive laws to enforce a biopsychiatric approach. The mental health system rarely offers options other than psychiatric drugs, and still more rarely offers people full, accurate information about the hazards of psychiatric drugs. The mental health system is coercing increasing numbers of people to take psychiatric drugs against their will, even on an outpatient basis in their own homes. Electroshock, even forced electroshock, is quietly making a comeback. >>Biopsychiatry is now one of the most profitable of all industries and its power is globalizing rapidly. The World Health Organization and the World Bank have multi-billion dollar plans to spread biopsychiatry to developing nations. In several other cases that I have watched, the truth did not come out of the courts if you can judge from eye-witnesses and evidence presented. Louise Bouta Kingfield TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
