[Mpls] re:Lt. Arradondo removed from the Police Community RelationsCouncil

[Michellehill64 at aol.com]

Thanks for posting my response in city pages Dennis. That was a nice article 
wasn't it? Please reread my earlier post. In my post I said, "I will be the 
first to defend a person when their civil rights are in question."  That remains 
true. The issue here is CP Samuels and the fact that he had already passed 
his "second hand" information to the 4th precinct commander. He went over his 
head to the chief and by some accounts the mayor. Only the chief and the mayor 
could cause that swift action from Internal Affairs.

Let's be clear here. If you look back on all of your earlier post, you 
supported Human Rights Director, Tyrone Terrell when he targeted gang members and 
their entire post. Your every post was against "gangbangers" and "drug dealers." 
Why are you strongly debating this gang-banger issue? Because it is about CP 
Samuels? Which is the point I keep trying to horn in on in my post. Ask CP 
Samuels what the store owner told him when he went out to do his own 
investigation. I hope he gives a statement to Internal Affairs telling both side of his 
"second hand" information.

He used his POLITICAL POWER. His real duty was to tell the 4th precinct 
commander and to direct his constituent, to either the 4th precinct commander or 
Internal Affairs. Let's not forget that he used his POLITICAL POWER to have the 
Minneapolis Police Department forward a request for criminal charges against 
community activist Al Flowers and Booker Hodges, that amounted to nothing. I 
question is would the city/police department have ever sent out or considered 
charges against anyone else on "Criminal Defamation?"  

Let's not lose site of the issue here. POLITICS!!!  Again, and I quote, "I 
will be the first to defend a person when their civil rights are in question." 
Oh yeah, can I get an answer to my question in your next post? How many comp
laints of "alleged" use of force has CP Samuels made to the chief, or any other 
precinct commander, that resulted in such swift action from Internal Affairs. 
Or perhaps DEMKO and ANDERSON can ask that question, since CP Samuels 
involvement could cost the city a settlement in the end. 



Michelle Hill


Cleveland




Michelle Hill


Cleveland