There needs to be sanctions against America..

[MineralMan]

17. We have had some problems in the Twin Cities in MN, too.

However, there is active opposition to racism by the local police departments. Beyond that, some very costly lawsuits have caused local cities to seriously look at how the police treat minorities. The result has been a slowdown of incidents, although not a disappearance of such incidents. The battle goes on.

For a couple of years, I had a blog about murders in the city of Minneapolis and the police's inability to prevent them, and their selective enforcement policies. I had to give it up, due to an increased workload, but I got lots of emails from organizations working to cut the crime rate in the cities.

It takes a community in action to let authorities know that such racism is simply not going to be tolerated. That action works, at least to limit the number of such incidents. If there is no broad-based community activism, the police will simply continue to assume that nobody cares what they do. It's up to us, in our own communities, to join with others in insisting that official racism and other intolerance will not be permitted. Nothing else will work, frankly.