Jury questions like these should not have birthdays. Another letter from Mr. Turchick.
Dear Public Health and Safety Committee Members,
It is almost hard to believe. For four years now, I have requested this committee and its predecessor committee that dealt with public safety to put on its agenda the questions that Hennepin County District Court Judge Kathryn Quaintance said the jurors in the Mohamed Noor case had about policing in Minneapolis. And four years later, you have still done nothing about those questions. You haven’t mentioned them a single time in a committee meeting; you haven’t answered the Judge — in fact, no one in City government has answered the Judge; and you haven’t begun to try to figure out how to answer those questions.
No, not almost hard to believe, it’s beyond belief. If this is how Minneapolis City officials take police issues seriously, then I really don’t want to see what your unserious response would look like. Or maybe you’ve now decided that everything’s been settled by the MDHR agreement, you have no role to play, and you’re simply wiping your hands of the matter.
God help us!
Yours,
Chuck Turchick
Ward 6
