List members. check out today's City Pages. There's an excellent article by G.R. Anderson regarding Councilmembers Don Samuels and Natalie Johnson Lee.
Regarding double standards: As long as police operations in Minneapolis are based on the military occupation model (which is inevitable given our war on drugs) rather than the community service model, Minneapolis police officiers are going to be exempt from many of the laws that most of us are expected to obey. Several years ago, when I was living in the Central Neigborhood and working the night shift at a group home, I called the police when, on my way home, I noticed an African American boy around the age of five. He was standing on a deserted street corner and crying. He missed the school bus and his mother was already off to work. The officier told me in a petulant manner that that escorting children to school wasn't a police officiers job, but he did it anyway since I refused to back down. -----------Peter Schmitz CARAG TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
