From: cwm54@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: In the wrong place, at the wrong time
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:23:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.220814.29142@news2.cis.umn.edu> mmoore@staff.tc.umn.edu ("None of ya Bizness") writes:
>In article <1992Oct3.175504.17958@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> johnson@offroad.chem.wisc.edu (Arthur Johnson) writes:
>$     Somehow, this doesn't sound like a case of a group of gang members
>$just wanting to waste a cop. It sounds more like a professional hit to me.
>$If Haaf really was operating his own private shakedown racket, that's more
>$likely the real motive, rather than some alleged "declaration of war" on
>$the cops by the gangs.
>
>Yeah, I was sorta thinking the same thing too, 'specially since things
>were relatively cool this summer.  We only had 2-3 "spikes" in
>the past three months, and while Chief Laux was readin some damn
>announcement that he had rehearsed each time, Deputy Chief Dobrotka was out in
>the streets with the gang leaders tryin to cool shit down.
>
>It also seems that Haaf was involved in some extracirricular activity
>hours before his death.  This is what my homie told me, so it could
>either be true or not:  Haaf had just gotten through shaking down a
>brother and a hispanic dude.  I'll have to talk with him to get the
>real story, but the account of Haaf shaking it at the Welfare office
>is true.
>
>$I've heard that the Minneapolis Police Department
>$used to be incredibly corrupt. Is that still the case?
>
>Well, John Laux has been police chief for 4 years and some change now.
>I have only been here for 5 years, so I don't know WHAT the hell
>was goin on prior to then; I was busy tryin to keep the Oakland Police
>off my ass.  The dude that was there before Laux was Tony Bouza.  Most
>people say he was level-headed, but Laux is corrupt BIG time.  So much
>crazy, unexplainable shit has happened since Laux was put into office.
>I have papers at home that show but a few of the documented cases of
>police brutality (damn! shoulda brought um to work).  The Strib
>reported that there has been (from one account) as much as a 415%
>increase in the number of police misconduct cases since Laux was put
>into office.  Shit really started gettin kinda hot in 1989, when I
>graduated from high school.
>
>$> RACIALLY TORN IN MINNEAPOLIS
>$
>$     <heavy sigh>
>
>Yeah, and the worst thing is, people up here try to fake like it ain't
>happenin.  Shame, shame...
>
>
>--
>Malcolm Diallo Moore, CIS-Univ. of Minn.                mmoore@staff.tc.umn.edu
>                                                   moor0009@student.tc.umn.edu
>       "Arresk the Presidink!"
>                               -- Popeye the Intelligent Hoodlum




     Well I've been educated. Many of us have been told that Minneapolis

     was a nice place for us, relatively speaking. I had been told that

     if you could deal with the low population of blacks it was "not bad".

     Allegedly, native americans caught the heat up in them thar parts.

     Silly me, expecting things to be different anywhere.


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