Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

I’m frustrated. My frustration has been deepening for at least a year. No, I’m not becoming jaded, I am becoming disheartened.

The tragedy of George Floyd created the death of a city, namely, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mayor Jacob Frey ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to “Stand Down” and allow protestors to burn a police precinct to the ground.

Nowhere in my 30 years in law enforcement did I learn how to understand that. Had I been one of those officers ordered to “Stand Down”, I believe I would have resigned on the spot. Police do not “Stand...