Like I said, I would like to trust the police… My post specifically cited Captain Lanier using the precise word “trust”… and I would agree with you completely if this was simply a matter of what you were saying… That the police just can’t come out and say why it was targeted… I also said that in my post… I accepted that… I was fine with them not telling us why they believed it was targeted, or who the potential target or targets were. But that was an entirely different scenario all together.
NOW, the number one thing the police have been adamantly repeating to the public and to law enforcement in the community and the families, since the very beginning, about these attacks being targeted… that that is where all of the evidence leads them, even though they can’t tell us why, we just have to trust them that it’s targeted… but NOW, that very thing that they have been vehemently repeating with such conviction, actually may not be the case at all. By their own admission.
As I said again, I have a great deal of respect for law-enforcement. I’m not gonna get into anything political in this forum, but the whole the police thing is ridiculous, our law-enforcement is critical and they do not get the respect that they deserve about 97% of the time… But this was a huge disappointment… Because it WAS a trust thing… And everyone that I’ve discussed this with today is reeling, feeling the same way. I’m not saying that is everyone’s opinion, or the correct opinion, but it is mine, and I am not alone. I can’t even imagine how the families feel.
it’s not lost on me that nearly everything related to this case cannot be disclosed to the public, but this was also a horrific crime, a exceedingly unusual crime, that has gained nationwide attention because of those circumstances and because of what an incredible tragedy the loss of these kids is… When literally the entire country is paying attention, because the entire country is praying for justice than some semblance of closure for these kids, their families, and their community… AND when you have such a psycho still out there on the loose, the number one thing LE professes to every media outlet from day one as essentially, the one thing they do know out of many things they do not yet know… And then it turns out that one thing they were so confident of, actually, may not be the case at all… When they tell us this, by their own admission, but try to euphemize it, calling it an “internal misunderstanding”, instead of owning it for what it is, is doubly disappointing when they emphasized how much we really need to trust them... to not own it like that, to call it a “internal misunderstanding” when it’s what they’ve publicly professed, leads to the opposite of trust. At least for me, and I think, in my opinion, significantly weakens the public’s confidence that MPD has this under control, or that we can even rely on anything else they tell us in the future now. Just how I feel. Very let down.
