[Peace-discuss] Robert Dunn's mugging

[Karen Medina]

Robert,

Excellent idea -- that of getting to know the public servants. We could invite the servants to get to know the public. Perhaps if a police officer would be invited to spend a weekend or a holiday with a family in the poor side of town.

I feel compassion for your experience Robert. Being mugged at gunpoint is a traumatic experience. A post-traumatic reaction to the threat of violence and deep personal violation is completely understandable. But I do not understand what you mean by being denied justice -- what justice did the San Bernardinos deny you? And how?

-karen medina





---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:21:49 +0000
>From: "Robert Dunn" <prorobert8 at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] CPRB  
>To: illyes at uiuc.edu, peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net, caevans2 at hotmail.com
>
>   ps, have anyone outside of myself ever done a
>   ride-a-along with a police officer? How about
>   participating in Kiwanis "Shop with a Cop" program
>   where the Urbana Police Department uses its own
>   budget to take low-income families Christmas
>   Shopping on the UPDs tab? Yes, thats right, the same
>   Department that is "targeting" low-income African
>   Americans is willing to help them out. That is more
>   than what the Left has done for low-income persons.
>   Police work is dangerous! They go out there and risk
>   their lives everyday to make sure that our streets
>   our safe from criminals. Part of the reason why i
>   "left the Left" was because i was a victim of a
>   mugging. Ironically, i was on my way to a meeting in
>   San Bernardino to establish a CPRB there. From being
>   someone who believed that cops were "pigs", i
>   developed an apprecriation (sp) for the police. I
>   found myself more and more uncomfortable
>   establishing something that would deny someone like
>   me who had been robbed at gunpoint justice. What if
>   you were in the same situation that i was? The Left
>   did not stand up for me. When i shared my story with
>   my comrades in San Bernardino, they took the robbers
>   side. They made excuses for him, just like you guys
>   make excuses for criminals here! I was the Damn
>   Victim, but i was turned into the enemy
>   automatically because i wanted justice and was
>   denied it. I felt so guilty because of what i had
>   done. I could not come up to the same City Council
>   in San Bernardino and say that i was wrong for
>   opposing the police. Well, here is my chance.
>
>   Also, i want to thank Danielle Chynoweth for showing
>   courtesy to me and welcoming me back home. Even
>   though my comments were directed at her, she did not
>   act the way that Charlie Smyth and Mort Brussel did.
>   I also want to thank Mayor Prussing for stopping Mr.
>   Smyth. He is so unprofessional and rude, and i
>   thought Tod Sattherwaite was bad! Im sorry, i don't
>   know anything about statistics, i was horrible in
>   math, only made it to college algebra and fought
>   like mad for a C. All i can go by is my experiences
>   and basic commonsense. Its something that ideology
>   blinds people to. But, my traumatic incident
>   shattered my Leftist illlusions!