Matthea's got some interesting points. I'm much more concerned about the
police killing the two mentally ill people-the woman with manic depression,
and the African American man. In both cases, they knew they were
confronting mentally ill people. At the same time, I resent when these
cases are compared to the police treatment of the protesters at the Animal
Genetics conference. The protesters there were intending to push the
envelope as far as they could go, just to get arrested as a way of making a
political statement. I think the issues are different.
>I think that the Star and Tribune article was
>instrumental in the statistics they gave that
>people of color don't make up the majority of the
>criminals, but they do make up for the majority
>of the arrests. It we look one step further,
>those arrests, many times comes from complaints
>from neighbors that have done the initial
>targeting or racial profiling. Now who do we
>target and hold accountable for their behavior?
Interesting point. I'm not sure how you can hold citizens accountable for
this type of behavior. The police are public servents and can be held
accountable, because we, the taxpayers in the city are paying their salary.
I also think that it's too bad when these things happen because all police
officers suffer for the actions of a few.
Eva Young
Central
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