Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, hired to reform the department after the police murder of George Floyd, made a round of apologies in August after civil rights leader Spike Moss made what he deemed “deeply offensive and inappropriate” remarks at a police training.
Moss talked about a time when the lockers of some police officers hung Nazi-type uniforms and said how some unarmed Black people were killed by cops, shooting them in the back. This did not sit well with the police union, which called some of Moss’s accounts of history inaccurate. So O’Hara, as reported by The Minnesota Star Tribune, worked to ease hurt feelings.
Talk to Spike Moss once, and you will understand his words and observations are unvarnished and full of pain. When he expresses rage about police force and cover-up, he compares Minneapolis to Mississippi or South Africa…