Last year's Republican National Convention may have given the Twin Cities a $168 million economic boost (Star Tribune, Sept. 2), but you can't buy the kind of publicity St. Paul and Minneapolis received when horrified TV viewers around the world saw law enforcement officers out of control and violating the constitutional and civil rights of numerous citizens.
Who in the world would want to visit a community where Wild West law enforcement techniques apparently not only are condoned but encouraged?
WILLARD B. SHAPIRA, ROSEVILLE
Readers write for Thursday, Sept. 3 THE RNC IN ST. PAUL: Was it worth the black eye the cops gave us? |