Following the reported Art-A-Whirl police misconduct on Friday, May 14. . .
http://www.mnforum.org/pipermail/mpls/2004-May/032805.html . . . another disturbing report of police misconduct on Saturday, May 15. Local activist and journalist, Chris Allison, ended up at the hospital after a beating by Minneapolis police. His account of what happened follows. "On Saturday evening I was riding my bicycle home from a "mexican fiesta" theme party in the como/university neighborhood. I crossed the river from dinkytown to downtown using the walk/bike bridge between the Washington bridge & the 10th Street bridge. After crossing the bridge (somewhere between 10 pm & midnight), I was heading up towards 13th on West River Parkway. As I crossed underneath 35w, a police car pulled up next to me without headlights on-- a police officer said my last name over the loudspeaker and I was immediately knocked off my bike by a car door. The two police officers quickly pounced on me , kicking and punching me in the head repeatedly. I am not sure if a club was used or not, but looking at the bruise pattern on my right thigh, it appears to have been hit with a police baton. The police then left very quickly (as if they didn't want to make it easy for me to identify them). I have been to the hospital and am pretty beat up, but luckily nothing that will not recover. I also have very good assault photos taken by staff at the hospital (my face is pretty ugly this week). As a 10-year local activist and community organizer (currently a board member of Sister's Camelot)-- I feel it is obvious that I was singled out and targetted because of my activist history, lifestyle, and influence." My understanding is that Allison is asking the MPD to be allowed to look at photos of officers to try and identify his attackers. Thus far, he has been refused. Russell Raczkowski Bancroft 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
