Aaron Neumann writes: dear dyna,
reminder #2: 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. i will try to respect the list rules...and i realize that your frustrated with the situatiuon in your neigborhood - but we're all homies - i mean human...um...you get the idea. its not cool to degrade others...even if you feel its justified. by the way...why do you think he was released with NO charges? aaron neumann holland Dyna writes: > >> it's 3 am and the local pimps and prostitutes are still open for >> business on my corner (Ontime Delivery truck 204 was the last > customer) > > I sent that message a week before Mr. Porter and his homies were busted. > > I'm quite familiar with Mr. Porter's criminal proclivities, and > immediately recognized his picture splashed about the media. The same Mr. > Porter who claims to have been sexually assaulted had no qualms about > selling drugs and promoting prostitution in front of children. It was he > and his homies that kept me up past 3 am that night with their dealing and > pandering in the 2500 block of 3rd Street North. > > Over last weekend I overheard Mr. Porter's homies talking about the > neighborhood getting too "hot", and they seemed to be getting nervous. The > criminal activity tapered off over that weekend. Probably Mr. Porter and > his homies suspected a bust was imminent and "cleaned house", partly > explaining why police found less drugs than expected. > > This is a different neighborhood since Mr. Porter and his homies were > busted. Neighbors are out doing yard work, and children are free to play > again. Hey, if this keeps up I'll have no excuse to leave Minneapolis, and > the two empty houses next to Mr. Porter's drug house will finally sell to > new families. Hopefully Mr. Porter will be more quickly sentenced to serve > out his most recent felony conviction at a proper locked facility, and his > homies will move on. Failing that, I'd suggest that CUAPB and Mr. Porter's > other enablers keep him off our streets lest he commit further felonies > whilst his allegations are properly disposed of. > > enjoying another quiet night in Hawthorne, > > Dyna Sluyter TN: While I respect this attempt at rational discussion we are not dealing with a rational issue. We are dealing with two sets of sterotypes, one that black people on the Norhtside are drug dealers and bad (and therefore it's OK for cops to do whatever they want to them...Dyna won't say it out loud, but these clearly seem to be her views), and that cops have to be brutal thugs by nature, or that they are not effective. Also, that anyone concerned about police brutality supports crime. I just returned from a trip to Tucson Arizona, and I read about the Minneapolis incident in the Arizona Daily Star. It struck me that in Tuscon, despite the usual obnoxious cop attitude, the police really do try to help everyone, even the "freaks." I think that this is because the people who live there don't have this fundamental resentment of those who are different, either by race or by choice. >From the moment I stepped off the plane, I noticed how angry we are. I heard people complaning about the Somalis, about Black people, about the gutter punks and the hippies and how they wished they'd all go away. I won't bore this list with another another lecture about how a "troubled" North Side public school saved my son and gave him a much better life (and education) than he's ever had, but I will call a spade a spade and tell it like I see it. If you support what happened to Mr. Porter, you support police brutality and you do so for racist, (or predjudice) reasons. If you support what happened to Al Flowers (or Bryce Williams..I'm still not clear on this one exactly, but I know the Minneapolis Police Department and I still say that there isn't a good one in the lot, and even since I cut my hair I haven't met one that looked anything other than mean) you support police brutality and do so for predjudice reasons. I'm waiting to see who starts making excuses for the behavior of Bill Finney's son, and I'll bet it's the same people who are supporting police brutality but won't openly say it. ( I know this is St. Paul, but since so many people seem to think that Finney is the answer to all of our problems I thought I'd throw that out there.) I also noticed criticism from people I respect of many of CUAPB's statements. I am one of the founding members of this organization, and I've known Michelle for years. There's no conspiricy against cops, no false statements, no coddling of criminals. Just a buch of people from ALL walks of life who are horrified (as were a bunch of cops I talked to in Arizona) at the behavior of the Minneapolis Police Department. I think it's a horrible irony that the only people (besides CUAPB and the traditional activist group who are willing to do anything about it is the Ashcroft/Mueller FBI. I think the fact that the MPD can't go for two weeks without a brutality allegation, and hasn't done so in years, should have risen enough eyebrows that the problem should have been taken care of years ago. I'm not really suprised at the MPD's behavior, I am however shocked, ashamed and angry at the prominent Minneapolis residents who quietly support and obviously approve of the racist acts of police brutality. Tamir Nolley Holland Ward 3 PS, Dyna, I thought you moved to the suburbs, why would you care? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com REMINDERS: 1. 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