Bracing for Hurricane McCulloch
The Way I See It Published in St. Louis American, November 6, 2014 Recently I ran across a 1988 letter from St. Louis Police Chief Robert Scheetz to an African-American clergy. It acknowledged a meeting with a group (of which I’m sure I was a part) around police-community issues and cited a number of documents the […]
Ferguson police just can’t help themselves
Ferguson have been engaged in arbitrary and vicious application of the law regarding protesters since August 9. They pluck people out of crowds to arrest for no good reason; they cover their name badges; they take down people’s license plates at meetings to intimidate them; and on and on. All this and more as the Department […]
Stop playing
Playing games with people’s lives St. Louis American, September 25, 2014 Recently at a press conference, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked why an African-American woman had not been assigned to his advisory team to deal with the fallout from the Ray Rice domestic violence situation. While Goodell did a public relations dance around the […]