There's a misstatement in here. In the case of Mr. Saunders, the police who
answered the call did not know the history of Mr. Saunders. The connection was
made later. The fault here lies, I think, with the hospital who let Mr.
Saunders out before he was ready to cope with whatever he had on his plate.
WMARKS
Eva Young wrote:
> 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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