I live right by 4th and king where the kid was killed.
There was a community event where we all gathered to express our discontent with the lack of safety at this intersection, and many others.
Someone had a sign that said "our neighbor died here" and one of the police officers there, the one who responded first the day the child died, walked up to the person with the sign and said "they weren't our neighbor". He said that because the family was visiting.
They were our neighbor, and we let them down.
I've been pretty dissapointed with many of my interactions with the folks that are supposed to be protecting us in this city. It's got to be a hard job, but we need to do better, somehow.
There was a community event where we all gathered to express our discontent with the lack of safety at this intersection, and many others.
Someone had a sign that said "our neighbor died here" and one of the police officers there, the one who responded first the day the child died, walked up to the person with the sign and said "they weren't our neighbor". He said that because the family was visiting.
They were our neighbor, and we let them down.
I've been pretty dissapointed with many of my interactions with the folks that are supposed to be protecting us in this city. It's got to be a hard job, but we need to do better, somehow.