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REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 13, 2012 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />everybody else. But this is just another black boy, it don’t matter, but it matter’s to him <br />because this is his son and they want some justice. <br /> <br />Reverend Sylvester Williams, no address given, stated that he would like to speak as a <br />reverend, and as a radio owner. Yesterday, as he began to step on the pulpit with a fiery <br />sermon, he was called by the South Bend Police Department to go and check on the <br />officers that were on Oliver Street after a shooting. So he concurs with Vice-President <br />Oliver Davis that you all need to be immediately notified. He stated that if he can leave <br />his post and his position, certainly you can too. He stated that during this time that he <br />was out there, he asked three questions. The first was where was the Mayor? He was not <br />there at that time. The second question was where was Officer Derek Dieter, because he <br />is never hardly off the case? They told me you were off doing your thing and he certainly <br />looked for you because he get’s a peace knowing when you are around. Thirdly, he <br />asked where the Council folk are. Because there was a need for crowd control, there was <br />a need for your face to be in the place. He dittoed on what Pastor Watson said is that the <br />people held themselves together; they knew the facts before the police knew them, <br />because they live in that neighborhood. Finally, there is a drum beat not for marshal law, <br />and not for an emergency plan, but there is a drum beat to put more officers on the street. <br />He reminded everyone, the rings that you see around the posters, all across this city was <br />done by the God Squad. If there is anymore people that’s needed in the neighborhoods, it <br />is not the Police, but it is God’s people. Why not fund them, in order to bring people <br />back out, that they might engaged again in that community. He stated that he was <br />fortunate that he did not have to give a death notification today, one of his colleagues did, <br />but that’s what they do, as chaplains in the police department. We have a real problem, <br />and that problem deserves that you catch the vision and right the vision, and make it plain <br />to the people. <br /> <br /> <br />ADJOURNMENT <br /> <br /> <br />There being no further business to come before the Council, President Derek D. Dieter <br />adjourned the meeting at 8:20 p.m. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ATTEST: ATTEST: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />____________________________ ____________________________ <br />John Voorde, City Clerk Derek D. Dieter, President <br /> <br /> <br /> 17 <br />