[Peace-discuss] RE: Martial Law comes to Garden Hills

[Marti]

That was a wonderful act of kindness Kimberlie and I hope that this might be
a wake up call for residents that we need a police review board.  It would
be nice for officers to be held accountable for their actions in this
instance, but that might not happen anytime soon. I've put in a call to
Neighborhood Services and am trying to find out when the next neighborhood
association meeting will be held.  I still believe the police department
should pay for the damage to the home since it's an act of vandalism. 

 

Peace, Marti

 

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From: Kimberlie Kranich [mailto:kakranich at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 5:29 PM
To: Marti; peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net; 'CU Announce list'
Subject: re: Martial Law comes to Garden Hills

 

I was very sad by the violence that visited Ms. Davis and her family when
the suspect invaded her home and the police fired shots at him in their
pursuit.  I was glad that none of her children who were hiding under their
beds were harmed. 

On Sunday I bought a card for Ms. Davis and her family and went door-to-door
in my neighborhood and invited my neighbors to sign the card.  I went to
each neighbor regardless of whether or not I thought they would sign the
card.  With one exception, they all did.  Not only did they sign the card,
they wrote some beautiful sentiments of care and concern and I learned
things about my neighbors that I didn't know before and I saw that many of
our aspirations for C-U are the same.  Eighteen of my neighbors wrote in the
card.  I and they want Ms. Davis and her family to know that we care.  Our
care won't stop the suspect or the police but it says we aren't separate
from her.  Maybe our love and reaching out will connect with her in some
meaningful way.  It connected me to my neighbors and me to her  family and I
know that I needed that connection.

I delivered the card later that day. Ms. Davis wasn't home but her daughter
was and I spoke to her.  I asked her about the bullet holes in the siding
and glass window.  She said that the landlord had insurance and was going to
take care of fixing the holes.  She gave me a hug before I left which I
gladly returned.


~Kimberlie

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being
able to remake ourselves.

- Mahatma Gandhi









Marti <tvchick at insightbb.com> wrote:

Recently residents of the Garden Hills subdivision received a letter in the
mail regarding the increased amount of police activity which would be taking
place.  This was done with the 'good' of the residents in mind.  One of the
results of this increased patrolling is the story below.

 

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/06/29/resident_rips_police_over_
shots_into

 

According to the resident of this house the man who ran into her place was
not firing his gun at the moment, yet police officers maintained open fire
and caused damage to the property.  Now if I decided to damage the property
of my neighbors they would be well within their rights to charge me with
vandalism, yet our police chief defended the actions of his officers when
they caused damage to someone's house.

 

I wonder if the City of Champaign will pay for the repairs in this instance.
At this point that would be the proper thing to do. 

 

Peace, Marti

 

 

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