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Lullaby For Our Rainbow Flag
The events of the last four years have highlighted and celebrated a national A lullaby lauding your purple stripe for the fearless loathing of immigrants, houseless people, women, who fought for Stonewall Inn, and several “othered” poppraising your bold red stripe honoring Harvey Milk’s ulations. As long as there resilient courage, are categories of people blessing your orange stripe of healing for wounds that are stigmatized, there can be no sustained trust external and internal. between citizens and A lullaby filled with mourning law enforcement. For the for all those who died of AIDS, safety of our officers and forgiving cake bakers who discriminate against for the safety of citizens, we need to find a way to same sex marriages, get on the same page: and softening the hardened hearts of those who community safety and would ban your rainbow. mutual respect. Anyone doing the A lullaby for crude crosses burned on lawns of gays, difficult job of enforcing welcoming us to our first town together, California’s laws needs for the school district that would not some cover from retribuhire my wife, tion. Qualified immunity, a strong police union and to soothe our children who suffered privacy laws to protect ofjeering taunts, ficers and their jobs seems to praise our valiant transgender son like an obvious way of who came out to his dad, approaching this. Unfortunately, the citizens and to celebrate our thirty-six years bonded the taxpayers pay dearly together in marriage. for this. The inability to May you wave proudly in the wind, hold Sgt. Jason Daniels to account for sexual a benediction on our dreams of equality, harassment has the effect glorifying the whole spectrum of love. of leaving citizens at risk of being victims of crime. Sex workers and homeless — Pat McCutcheon people suspected of being sex workers might need to get away from an abusive pimp. If they recognize that law enforcement also sees them as a sex object, they have no privileged, private review process, we’re recourse to the law. Similarly, if you are encouraging more racist and sexist police already a suspect because of the color of practices. your skin, you have no recourse when you Geoffrey Robinson, Blue Lake are attacked by racist neighbors (“What Happened on Howard Street” Aug. 27, 2020). This dynamic does not engender Please make your letter no more than trust in law enforcement. Trust from the 300 words and include your full name, community is the best way for officers place of residence and phone number and citizens to be safe. (we won’t print your number). Send it to Humboldt County needs a Citizen’s Law letters@northcoastjournal.com. The deadEnforcement Review Board with subpoena line to have a letter considered for the power and representation from stigmaupcoming edition is 10 a.m. Monday. tized groups to hold officers accountable. When we’re accountable, we’re responsil ble. When we’re hiding malfeasance in a
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