A police officer may or may not have used a toilet plunger on a suspect and that suspect may or not be an police informer. I don't think most of us have any clue as to what the truth is here.
So the city should sue the STAR TRIBUNE for . . . what? Jim Bernstein Fulton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Lewis Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] Commentary: City should take legal action against Star Tribune Commentary City should take legal action against Star Tribune by Thomas H. Johnson III, Guest Commentary The most recent episode of on-going accusations of police brutality upon Black Minnesotans reached a feverish pitch with assertions of misconduct so vile that it was talked about in nooks and crannies throughout our metropolitan area. This, for the first time, appeared to shock a number of Whites that were eager to talk about the subject. Many, though, had gone for the baited deception readily assisted by the daily newspaper, Star Tribune, of the victim being an "apparent" informant. Belligerently, the doubting Thomases of the White community were masking their fear that a police officer of this supposedly civilized enclave of the United States had done such a thing. The thought of using a toilet plunger to violate another human anatomy is utterly repugnant, and is rivaled only by the stories of similar barbaric acts attributed by our President George Bush to the Saddam Hussein regime; stories needed to gain our acquiescence, and used to justify our invasion of Iraq, the plundering of our national treasury, and the needless deaths of so many young Americans in lieu of our failure to find any WMD. Even Minneapolis Police Chief Olson appeared outraged, and quite noble in proclaiming that if the allegations were true, 'he' was going to "put (the perpetrator) in the penitentiary." http://www.insightnews.com/commentary.asp?mode=display&articleID=1011 http://www.insightnews.com Posted by Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ 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 REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ 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
