Dear Editor,

Ordinarily, I would say police violence is more of a police militarization problem than one of race. However, this is St. Louis County we're talking about here.

There is still Klan activity in STLCO-- white robe-wearing, cross-burning KKK.

Check out the Wikipedia entry for Rosa Parks Highway. That was where the Klan used to participate in the state adopt-a-highway program.

About five months before the Michael Brown shooting, an STLCO PD lieutenant was fired for directing those under his supervision specifically to target racial minorities.

I, myself, was prosecuted for having re-published some of the words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on-line. Here is my crime:

‘[U]nenforceable obligations are beyond the reach of the laws of society. They concern inner attitudes, genuine person-to-person relations, and expressions of compassion which law books cannot regulate and jails cannot rectify. Such obligations are met by one's commitment to an inner law, written on the heart. Man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love.’ --ML K, Strength to Love p. 37

I would like to get this story out. It never drew media attention the way that the shooting did.

I think Alemayehu G. Mariam is the right one to tell the story.

Please forward this on to him.

Thank you.