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1. Shanna
   July 19th, 2010 at 2:18 am

   Our Public Safety Director is a joke!

   He is a moral coward, who plays right into the race-card game. He is “Mr. Politically Correct” instead of a Public Safety Director!!! He is afraid of the black ministers.

   Indy4U2C Posted my own words previously:

   “How can a Public Safety Director allow IBE to continue, year after year, to be the catalyst for an incomparable alchemy that results in mayhem, tremendous police and EMS resources donated to Expo by the Public Safety Director, property damage, and multiple trauma center admissions (paid for by taxpayers as welfare)?

   Our LIBERAL Public Safety Director, with SLICK WILLIE'S pic behind him in many photos, even provides IBE with babysitting service during the mayhem at our expense, which he calls “curfew sweep.”

   The results are predictable and recur every year because the Public Safety Director lacks moral courage to do the right thing and take all necessary action to end the mayhem!

   IBE serves as the catalyst every year on the Saturday night in July; the city pays hundreds more officers than normal to be downtown, many gunshots will ring out downtown, people will be shot, property will be damaged, riotous crowds suppressed…and what will IBE do about it?

   Every year IBE releases the same old statement: “We are saddened by the reported incidents that occurred downtown this evening. The incidents were isolated from the IBE events…” I wonder if that silly release wasn't used on the first Expo. It's the same year after year! I'm tired of hearing it! I remember Charles Williams using it on me years ago when I asked about accepting responsibility for the violence.

   IBE must accept responsibility, acknowledge that IBE is the catalyst for an incomparable alchemy of violence, and take proper action to stop the violence! We all know what will happen on Expo Saturday night every year, yet every year IBE turns the other way and says the same thing in it's press release. Does that comment help anyone? Is it responsible?

   Why doesn't the Public Safety Director take a proper stand and end this violence? I'm starting to think the pic of Slick Willie says it all: Does anyone remember the famous liberal saying 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky…' Guess what? Slick Willie DID have sexual relations with that girl, old enough to be his daughter….

   Well, has our Public Safety Director failed to show any moral courage and stand up to IBE and tell them “enough is enough”??? –our Public Safety Demands an end to this liberal cover-up of violence!!!”

2. ramon
   July 19th, 2010 at 2:30 am

   I think the president of IBE, Tanya Bell is making excuses and appears weak and afraid.

3. Frank
   July 19th, 2010 at 2:42 am

   Right on!

4. Matthew Stone
   July 19th, 2010 at 2:59 am

   I think Ms. Bell's recognition of the problem in this interview is a step in the right direction compared to her complete dismissal of the problem earlier in the day on WIBC.

   I'd like to hear a nice, long conversation from her to really see where she stands.

5. Indy4U2C
   July 19th, 2010 at 3:27 am

   Let's all take a moment and laugh…

   Matthew: Every year IBE releases the same old statement: “We are saddened by the reported incidents that occurred downtown this evening. The incidents were isolated from the IBE events…”

   I wonder if that silly release wasn't used on the first Expo. It's the same year after year! I'm tired of hearing it! I remember Charles Williams using it on me years ago when I asked about accepting responsibility for the violence.

   Bell continues in the footsteps of her predecessors…

   IBE must accept responsibility, acknowledge that IBE is the catalyst for an incomparable alchemy of violence, and take proper action to stop the violence!

   Bell knew what wouldl happen on Expo Saturday night this year, just like every year, yet every year IBE turns the other way and says the same thing in it's press release. Does Bell help anyone? Is it responsible? NO!

   IBE has an established custom, policy, and practice of negligene and deliberate indifference to the harm that will result…and MUST be held accountable!

6. Shanna
   July 19th, 2010 at 3:34 am

   …I can't believe Paul Bateman isn't in prision yet! Wasn't he indicted a long time ago for corruption?

7. Cassie
   July 19th, 2010 at 4:02 am

   Chicago reported the violence of INDIANA BLACK EXPO in Indianapolis on its TV news!

   Wowsa! We are as violent as Chicago!

   Thank you Mr. Public Safety Director for allowing this violence to perpetuate…and what do you do…allow it!

8. pascal
   July 19th, 2010 at 10:57 am

   How about some suggestions of a practical nature for these dweebs? I'm sure IPS would also have interest in how to deal with success with the one standard deviation down sorts..

9. Taxpayer 834512
   July 19th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

   Besides Chicago, I'm told we rated front page treatment in USA Today. How come we wake-up Sunday morning in the city where the violence took place, and read about it on page 14? There's comparable space devoted to the “pride” of the festival on the front page. Why couldn't the Star have squeezed-in, “Nine shot at Black Expo- p. 14″, referring the reader elsewhere for more detail. They do that all the time if it's a late draft pick selection for our professional sports teams.

   I like the idea of having Indiana Black Expo. Living in Austin, they used to have all kinds of multi-cultural things going on. We had or are going to shortly have the Middle Eastern Festival in Indy. I've been a couple of times and it was fun.

   Being tremendously encouraging and supportive of culturally diverse events- I get. To the point of burying coverage of multiple people shot in our Downtown- I don't.

10. Nick
    July 19th, 2010 at 5:02 pm

    Rev. Harrision is GREAT.

    Tanya's speech sounded almost accepting of bad behavior in certain situations. Good and Bad need to be spelled out in No Uncertain terms.

    I think Tanya needs to refine her message.

    1. Parents need to take responsibility
    2. Kids should not have guns.
    3. Violence against anyone is unacceptable.
    4. Criminals should be punished and go to jail.
    5. Personal responsibility and self empowerment is the way to get ahead.
    6. We will take this message to the next Expo and bring national leaders like Collin Powell,Bill Cosby, Juan Williams, and Karen Hunter to deliver the message in no uncertain way that now is our time to be parents and get into other peoples business.

11. Nick
    July 20th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    Bill Cosby -
    Pound Cake Speech to NAACP
    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billco...

    Juan Williams -
    The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It.
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...

    Karen Hunter-
    Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing
    http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Being-Niggardly-Thin...

    Colin Powell
    Americas Promise
    http://www.americaspromise.org/

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