And oddly Mr. Blackshaw while you are chastising Peter McLaughlin you and your candidate remain silent on the fact that the Police Community Relations Coalition announced today at a press conference held in front of the Ancient Trader's Market that they have called the Chicago office of the Federal Department of Justice to ask that the Minneapolis Police Department be placed in receivership. In other words, they want a consent decree. A budget busting venture for the City of Minneapolis. This coalition is a who's who of every leader in the communities of color and other disenfranchised communities that have existed in the last 20 years in this city. To watch the leaders of these various communities being blown off by this cities mayor is very painful and shameful. Especially when this all could have a very different outcome. The communities representatives, the Minneapolis Police Department and the City Council all mediated in good faith and wanted the approved Memorandum of Agreement implemented. It did not happen in a two year period and no one at the top is taking responsibility for it. That is an abdication of leadership. That news made me a 15 year community activist cry today. There are so many people that have worked very very hard over the past 15 years to build strong partnerships with the police department, including the people that are members of the Police Community Relations Coalition. To think that we face the very real potential of those relationships being destroyed is utterly unconscionable to me. Barb Licknesss Whittier
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