[Leica] Minneapolis burning

Don Dory don.dory at gmail.com
Fri May 29 06:54:21 PDT 2020


Indeed it is a complex subject.  I would not have thought the Minneapolis
police would be intolerant.  That region of the US was settled
predominately by Scandinavian immigrants.  Politically Minnesota has
trended very much like Scandinavia: the predominate political faction was
the Farm Workers party.

However, I just listened to a PhD defense where the candidate spent 2 years
in the Texas police recruiting and training arena.  She documented that
Texas police departments looked for recruits that had been in fights and
demonstrated no aversion to aggression.  As well, cadets were berated and
punished for not shooting a subject in a specific contrived violent
training confrontation.  Ethnographically it appears that norms within
police ranks do not match expectations from the general public.

Taking that in, a trial and murder conviction might begin the changes
within departments.

On Fri, May 29, 2020, 7:45 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I wonder what would have happened if it had not been recorded and hit the
> media. I am afraid it is not just a stray bad cop. It is more systemic than
> that.
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> > On 29 May 2020, at 13:55, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> > Douglas, let's try to keep personal political feelings off the LUG.  The
> > pain in Minneapolis was caused by 1-4 very bad policemen.  The
> appropriate
> > prosecutorial work is being done. All levels of justice, city, state, and
> > federal are coming down on these individuals.
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> > On Fri, May 29, 2020, 4:28 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> >> T Truly
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> >> U Unprecedented Unbelievable UnPresidential
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> >> P Polarising petrol pourer
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> >> God help the world
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> >> On 29/05/2020 06:47, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
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