Six-week Hiatus
Yesterday, a former radio reporter testified at the hearing. He had previously interviewed one of the people who was in the hotel room when David allegedly reenacted the murder. CBC News claims that "Chris O'Brien said in the early 1980s the woman told him Milgaard's 're-enactment' was a joke, not the confession portrayed during his 1970 trial." That's exactly what David told me years ago.
The inquiry is officially on hiatus for the next six weeks. Thank God. It seems to be taking quite a toll on Joyce and the family; the Globe and Mail said that Joyce was surprised that throughout this entire lengthy process, no one at the hearing has really taken any responsibility for what happened to David, nor have any concrete suggestions for improvement been made.
Now that the hearing is off duty, I will be writing about other things that concern me, such as the brutal shooting of an Hispanic man at the Miami Airport yesterday afternoon. Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old home-improvement store worker, was on his way home to Orlando from Columbia. His plane connected in Miami and he became quite distraught and agitated. Then he made the fatal error of announcing that he had a bomb in his carry-on bag. Of course, everyone freaked out and the air marshals chased him off the plane onto the tarmac. Meanwhile, his poor wife was sitting on the plane and kept shouting out that he was not well and had gone off his medications.
Rigo lasted about five minutes on the tarmac. He went to reach into his bag and the air marshals felt threatened. They shot him dead. Last night, Anderson Cooper on CNN stated that Rigo Alpizar had a bipolar illness. What a tragedy. Just like the guy in Britain who was shot in the subway station when the bobbies thought that he had a bomb. The police are getting awfully trigger happy during these posts 9/11 days. Can't they be trained to shoot to INJURE or MAME rather than to kill?
If you're wondering how this story relates to the Milgaard Inquiry, police procedure and tunnel minded behavior is at the core of the Milgaard investigation.
Sigrid Mac
The inquiry is officially on hiatus for the next six weeks. Thank God. It seems to be taking quite a toll on Joyce and the family; the Globe and Mail said that Joyce was surprised that throughout this entire lengthy process, no one at the hearing has really taken any responsibility for what happened to David, nor have any concrete suggestions for improvement been made.
Now that the hearing is off duty, I will be writing about other things that concern me, such as the brutal shooting of an Hispanic man at the Miami Airport yesterday afternoon. Rigoberto Alpizar, a 44-year-old home-improvement store worker, was on his way home to Orlando from Columbia. His plane connected in Miami and he became quite distraught and agitated. Then he made the fatal error of announcing that he had a bomb in his carry-on bag. Of course, everyone freaked out and the air marshals chased him off the plane onto the tarmac. Meanwhile, his poor wife was sitting on the plane and kept shouting out that he was not well and had gone off his medications.
Rigo lasted about five minutes on the tarmac. He went to reach into his bag and the air marshals felt threatened. They shot him dead. Last night, Anderson Cooper on CNN stated that Rigo Alpizar had a bipolar illness. What a tragedy. Just like the guy in Britain who was shot in the subway station when the bobbies thought that he had a bomb. The police are getting awfully trigger happy during these posts 9/11 days. Can't they be trained to shoot to INJURE or MAME rather than to kill?
If you're wondering how this story relates to the Milgaard Inquiry, police procedure and tunnel minded behavior is at the core of the Milgaard investigation.
Sigrid Mac
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