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Not once did they try to question or verify the claims of the BLM protesters. They did manage to claim they reached out to MPPD for comment on one issue but got no response. I would like to know how you reached out and how long you gave the MPPD to respond.
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'According to Tha Hood Squad’s founder J.T. Faraji, the task force has a repeated history of stopping Black and brown people under false pretenses, such as running through stop signs, possessing drugs or weapons and driving under the influence.'

Regardless of skin color, I expect/hope/demand that the police stop, cite, and or arrest drivers for any of the above.

Common sense in a civil society.

Betsy, what he’s saying is that black and brown people are stopped by Menlo police when not doing those things and accused of doing them.

I have to agree. As much as I appreciate the Almanac, the reporting in this particular article is imbalanced, filled with innuendos, and bordering on being irresponsible.

Menlo Park is not Memphis. I don't recall ever reading about police brutality in MP. That's not to say it hasn't happened before but we need some evidence before we make horrific accusations and even worse, take action?

I get that the protesters are angry about what has happened in other cities, I am too. That's not to say the MPPD is guilty.

My fear is that we will now go through another round of wokeism as we saw when Council Members Taylor and Nash (as well as Menlo Together) basically pushed out Police Chief Bertini in 2020.

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@Lash: Reporters first asked Menlo Park police and the county Sheriff's Office for a response to allegations made by protesters on Friday, Feb. 10, and continued to seek comment through the weekend. The story was updated with a reply from Menlo Park police received today (Monday).

MP Father, your city’s police dept has had some brutality cases. It’s also had racial strife within the dept, causing the resignation of well-trained, valuable officers and the retention of an alleged racist officer.

@Hmmm, please share some details of the brutality. As I said in my previous post, I am not saying it doesn't exist but don't recall ever reading about any with the current police force or with prior ones.

In which city do you reside?

Had any of the people criticizing The Almanac's coverage above attended Saturday's rally they would have heard speeches of some of the victims of Menlo Park police. Sounds like some just want to believe "it couldn't happen here." Well, it does. Thank you for your coverage, Almanac staff.

Why am I not surprised my factual counter to this propaganda piece was edited and marked "disinformation". The facts that were deleted from my comment included:
1. BLM is s a publicly declared Marxist organization - all three founders describe themselves as "trained Marxists".

2. One of the goals of BLM and Da Hood is to abolish the police - again - widely quoted.

3. BLM's Marxist founders have all repeatedly called for the overthrow of capitalism and all institutions in the US founded as part of capitalism.

4. The gross misrepresentation by this paper of the tragic death of Chinedu Valentine Okobi.

5. The use of a Marxist propaganda site / organization's dishonest and made up data on police violence instead of referring to legitimate data sources. In pointing out The Almanac's DISINFORMATION, I referenced the analysis done by a renowned Harvard economist - Roland Fryer.

My reference to these FACTS has been labeled "disinformation". Shocking to see The Alamanac is so frightened of truth that they have do this.

This is nothing more than trashy reporting and a propaganda hit piece on the MPPD and police in general.

@Andrea Gemmet. Thank you for answering ONE part of my comment. Are you so afraid to be transparent that you feel the need to label my FACTS as disinformation instead of trying to point out inaccuracies?

But you cannot. You must use the little power that you have to suppress reasonable arguments and label them disinformation.

@GrannyB, All of the examples cited above refer to the San Mateo County and Memphis Police Forces, not the MPPD.

Lash:

Do you have links to your facts? I'm interested in reading them.

@Menlo voter. I will compile and share. Teaser.... the two founders of the linked site providing fake "police violence" stats actively support (direct links on their website) one of the original founders of the BLA - which has a stated goal of the violent overthrow of the United States government. January 6 comes to mind when I read his stuff on Twitter.

One of the two founders of "tracking police violence" also hosts a live stream show titled "Riot Starter".

Hardly "neutral" sources for statistics on police violence. I will provide links as well to renowned Harvard economist - Roland Fryer - who started off his research with the specific intent to prove police target blacks. Roland Fryer - being black - tried twice to come up with this result in his research and ended up proving the opposite.

MP Father, you can find past articles in the Almanac. I recall several officers leaving due to a supervisor named Prickett. There were also 2 incidents I recall. 1 was the aggressive search of the wrong address that resulted in problems. There was also a long-serving officer whom I think made sergeant with a reputation for aggression and I think some investigations about that. The chief resigning a few years ago involved a low level racial slur. I also recall a sex scandal with an officer who was reinstated, which seemed fair, and the violent suicide of an officer about 20 years ago.

In recent years my impression is that there’s a lack of appropriate transparency and still complaints from brown and black people about how they've been treated by Menlo officers.

It’s good to see people come out and support. We didn’t know about it I would’ve been there because as a victim that has tried ever approach they will not take accountability for there misconduct and assault they are very racist and need to be investigated nothing has ever been done about my situation where they physically trapped me in an alley coming home from work in uniform and fabricated until backup arrived they did military combat moves on me 5 on one man already handcuffed and zip tied me slammed me into the concrete none of the officers where questioned or investigated and I’m just a handicapped man who was once able bodied working and going to school they ruined my life my career and still beating people down for nothing and we all know who there leader is so one day when y’all investigate or need people to come forward my email is [email protected]