Police in Minnesota Giving Drugs to Young People to Study Their Effect?!? Wake Up!!!

A fellow student of CSUSB showed us a video to support her curriculum surrounding the book Go Ask Alice by an Anonymous Writer. The video was breaking a shocking story of police in Minnesota who are allegedly supplying people with the drug of their choice for the purpose of researching the effects and reactions of the people in their various states of being under the influence. 

Community activist in the area have made a cry for help asking neighborhood citizens to video, photograph, and site any instances of this action taking place. Authorities so far are saying that they have been provided with no substantial proof that this is really going on. Either various people from various counties and towns have gotten together to "make up this story" or this is really happening and no one in the position of authority is doing anything to stop it but instead are turning a blind eye and ear to this outrageous scheme to get our young people addicted to drugs.

The story broke in May of this year and as of this blog each of the following videos have receive 1000 or less views. Please, let's make this story go "viral" and get the word out there. These awful and corrupt officers need to be punished so as not to tarnish the reputation and actions of those who are honest and upstanding officers. 

 Here are links to a few of the videos that I have found linked to this occurring in Minnesota.

Police Giving Young People Drugs to Study the Effects They Produce 

Breaking News: Minnesota Police Giving Drugs Part of Evaluation Program 

Police in Minneapolis, MN Experiment on People With Drugs 

13 Year Old Killed by His Neighbor

At 39 you would think that I shouldn't be surprised at the turns of the world but I continue to be disgusted at the evilness which fills it. Back in the day, I can imagine my grandmother beginning a story, neighbors were like family and everyone looked out for each others children. Their were the Grandparents of the neighborhood whom everyone liked and respected and did kind things for. Now, people barely even know who there neighbors are. Oh we recognize them, their cars on sight, and we know whether or not they have a dog, especially if it's an annoying one, but we don't know their or their children's names. 

But to kill a neighbor, or even worst, a neighbor's thirteen year old son of items that you assume the child stole from you is shameful. I am saddened and my heart aches over the details of this story. I pray for this mother and the other members of Darius Simmons' family who will not get to see him grow up. Even if John Henry Spooner is given life in prison or the death penalty, at age 75 those sentences would be far too inadequate.

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BTW - Spooner is white and Darius was black. Only Spooner knows whether or not race was a factor in his assumptions about who stole his missing merchandise and the carrying out of his street justice.

Honor Student Jailed for Missing School

Ok, I have heard of people being accused, tried, and/or convicted of many different crimes. And most of the time I am on the sidelines hollering, "Throw the book at'em. But there are times when the spirit of the law meets the letter of the law, and I feel the wrong interpretation wins. 

Diane Tran has recently been convicted of Truancy under Texas state law and sentenced to spend a night and jail and pay a $100 fine. While I understand that this law was probably put into place to make sure that all parents are complying with the law and sending their children to school (the letter of the law), (the spirit of the law) did not take into account that Tran is an Honor Student who after her parents' divorce has been working a full and part time job to support her two younger sibling.

I am thoroughly disappointed in this judgement!

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Not his place?!?

I am shocked. When the story broke last week that the 1979 murder of Etan Patz's was finally being solved I was glad that the six year old's family would finally have closure, although saddened that it was not a happy ending. But to hear that this family could have mourned and laid Etan's body to rest 30 years ago is beyond my comprehension. Apparently, Pedro Hernandez, the man being charged with Etan's murder, confessed the crime to his prayer group at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Camden back in the 1980's. 

How does one, as a human being, hear that a horrible crime has been perpetrated against an innocent child and not speak up? How do you hear something so soul wrenching and not become angered with the loss of innocent life and compelled to see that justice is carried out? Well, that's exactly what the prayer group that Hernandez attended did; NOTHING!!!

"Tomas Rivera, 76, of Blackwood, a leader of the prayer group, told the Times he did not feel it was his place to notify the police because the confession was not made to him exclusively," (N.J.com). Well, Tomas Rivera of Blackwood, NJ, if it were not your place then whose place was it? I will answer you; it was the civic responsibility and duty of each and every person in that prayer group to speak up!

Where are we with our humanity that we can sit idly by and not act when a heinous crime is brought to our attention? I would have marched myself right down to the nearest police station and told them everything! I would have handed Hernandez over gift wrapped. As far as I am concerned, each and every person who heard Hernandez's confession, either directly from his lips, or by third party (I know someone from that prayer group told somebody something) should be brought up on charges of obstruction of justice. At the very least, they need to be made accountable to Etan Patz's family that they were forced by the group's inaction and silence to wait over 30 years to have closure and see justice carried forth.

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