http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/14/1344856/-Minneapolis-Mayor-Betsy-Hodges-fires-back-at-pointergate-scandal?detail=email
After being accused by police of knowingly flashing a gang sign, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, in an update on her personal blog, has fired back.
She begins her masterful critique with these words:
A few days before the November 4th election, I took a photo with an organizer while doorknocking to get the vote out. In that photo, the organizer and I pointed at one another (after, it has often been remarked, an awkward moment of set-up). A local news station ran a story that the pointing of our fingers constituted gang signs, that the photo undermined the morale of the officers in the Minneapolis Police Department, and that participating in the photo constituted poor judgment on my part. The head of the Minneapolis Police Federation — the union that represents Minneapolis police officers — made a comment publicly to that effect. He said, “She should know better” and asked, “Is she on the side of the cops or the gangs?” As one of the two people pointing in the photo, I’ve tried to understand what the head of the police union thinks I should do, or not do. There seem to be four options.
After saying that she doubts the validity of the first three options, she digs in on option No. 4, which she, and most others, thinks is the most likely to be true:
Which leaves one final option. It could be that the head of the police union wants me to stop working to raise the standards of police culture and accountability. It could be that he objects to the community policing and relationship-building measures that I am acting on, and attempted to use this non-story to discredit this work. I share the public’s speculation that this is the real option.I've got one question to this hyperbole is Scott Walker flashing gang signs?
they have an archive republicans and police might do to check it sometime before going off half cocked.
