Council ready to reconsider police-community mediation
Rochelle Olson and David Chanen, Star Tribune
Published March 21, 2003
A Minneapolis City Council plan to
resuscitate police-community mediation is
being met with skepticism from community
members who had sought the sessions.
Supporters say the council resolution
will pass today after winning unanimous
approval Thursday from the public safety
committee. It directs the community to
drop a legal petition seeking to force
the start of mediation, involve credible
community organizations in the process
and get support for their plans from the
federal mediator.
If those three conditions are met, the
council and Mayor R.T. Rybak will direct
Police Chief Robert Olson to start talks,
the resolution says.
Mediation was scheduled to begin in
early December, but Olson delayed it
because the panel proposed by a
coalition of community groups didn't
include established civil rights
organizations, including the Urban
League and NAACP.
The petition filed in Hennepin County
District Court in January sought to compel
Olson to start talks. But federal mediator
Patricia Campbell Glenn told Olson she
wouldn't convene the mediation effort
until the legal issue was resolved.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3771009.html
Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood
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