We will see these "community leaders" again. ***************************************************************** Posted on Sat, Jun. 05, 2004 RUB�N ROSARIO: Porter is just trouble for community leaders
RUB�N ROSARIO Drop this guy like a worm-infested apple. This is a public service announcement to those community leaders in Minneapolis who stubbornly continue to defend convicted drug dealer Stephen Porter and his assertion that he was sodomized with the wooden end of a toilet plunger during a drug raid in North Minneapolis in October. >From the start, this caper smelled about as foul as a long-worn sneaker. The two police officers accused were cleared Friday after a federal investigation. There was the less-thanconvincing performance Porter gave during a news conference a few days after the allegation was announced by former Minneapolis Police Chief Robert Olson, who called for the FBI inquiry. Flanked by community activists, Porter grimaced in apparent pain, sobbed, and paused at times for dramatic effect as he recounted an incident strikingly similar to the very real, shocking and brutal attack on Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, inside the bathroom of a New York City police precinct in 1997. Porter also needed some work on his entrance and exit. He was caught on TV shuffling into the news conference, hunched over and limping on one leg, barely three hours after he was seen walking out fine from jail lockup. He left the news conference noticeably limping on the other leg, and then topped it off with "The Dive'' � a sudden and very suspect collapse to the floor. There were also the very real abrasions to his rectum. Those injuries were challenged by reports that he had a history of using his anus as a storage locker for cocaine bags. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/columnists/8843282.htm Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm 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
