On Oct 26, 2003, at 10:40 PM, Michelle Gross wrote:
At 09:02 PM 10/26/03 -0600, Neal Krasnoff wrote:Don't change the subject. Address the statement of fact as written.
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On Oct 26, 2003, at 3:24 PM, Rosalind Nelson wrote:
Mark Anderson writes:
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Michelle Gross posted a few days ago about Barbara
Schneider "cowering in fear" as she was shot by police,
conveniently forgetting that the woman was actually
holding a knife and lunging at the officers.
The above was the statement of fact I based my comments on.
However:
"June 12, 2000: After responding to a call that Barbara Schneider was playing loud music, Minneapolis Police shot and killed the 49-year-old when she threatened officers with a knife outside her apartment. The woman had a history of mental illness."
Pioneer Press, March 11, 2002 http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/2835000.htm
"Barbara Schneider: Minneapolis police responded to a call June 12 that
Schneider was creating a disturbance at her Uptown apartment building. She
was shot in her bedroom after coming toward officers with a knife, police
said. A dispatcher had been told that Schneider, 49, was mentally ill but
that information apparently didn't reach the responding officers."
Star Tribune, December 17, 2000 http://projects.is.asu.edu/pipermail/hpn/2000-December/002203.html
"In the Barbara Schneider case...the cops...broke down her front door. Then then broke down her locked bedroom door and shot her four times as she sat on the floor of her room. The small kitchen knife found in her bedroom was 15 feet from her body."
Attributed to Friends of Barbara Schneider, via Michelle Gross, October 26, 2003
There's also the Hennepin County Sheriff's report on the incident.
Them's the facts, like it or not.
Which one?
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--I got it from Friends of Barbara Schneider, a respected organization not known for hyperbole or "coddling criminals". To quote John Trepp, a representative of that organization, "not even the Taliban would have dispatched a firing squad to deal with a small woman playing her radio loudly."
He's right, since the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice would have confiscated the radio. But she would have been executed for being a Jew.
Neal Krasnoff Loring Park
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