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Originally posted by WenD08
first, it was stated that Nathaniel Jones had "traces" of PCP and coke in his system. to me, that doesn't say that he was high. the tape just shows me a man who was hyped up on adrenaline, given the situation. we'll see what the final coroners report. secondly, watching the tape gave me a real sense of deja vu. so many unarmed Black men have met the same fate here, Death By Police. the police need to be released from the stranglehold of the FOP, the police union, in order to make real changes. for starters, better community policing, diversity training, end the "inbreeding" when it comes to promoting officers to higher positions...
as a native, it saddens me to see my city in this light. i just wish other residents thought like me and would make some real changes... 
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I hear ya Sister Greek. You know your city better than all of us.
But here in Minneapolis, the charges of police brutality are also flying rampant by a group of so-called Black leaders who blame everything on racism. We recently had a young man (a known drug dealer) arrested in a drug raid. He claimed that two police (he named them) sexually assaulted him in the house they raided with a toliet plunger. Sound familiar? It happened about a month ago, a few days after the Law and Order rerun about that very thing that did happen in NY.
When the news first showed him, he was walking from the jail with no problem and even slightly jogging. But the next day and following days when he was shown at various community press conferences and rallies he walked bent over (supposedly because of his injuries.) At one he even fainted. He wasn't charged and so he was released. Last week the police made another drug raid on a different house. Lo and behold, guess who was there? And this time he claimed it was a different police officer who had assasulted him the last time. BTW, it also has come out that he is a police informer which he vehemently denies.
But this is what I mean about us crying wolf. Because the so-called community leaders have taken this and run with it as a perfect case of racial profiling and police brutality.
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